Category: Travel
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Friday 25 January 2013 Highlights: Zip-Lining, Flying like Superman, Night Forest Walk. An action packed day in Monteverde. The weather here is actually more moderate due to the altitude and the mountains. I’m expecting this to be one of the last places that I can wear something other than shorts.
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Thursday 24 January 2013 Highlights: Tough border Crossing, Toucan Sighting, Sunset in Monteverde. With a 6 am departure time today we had an early start. Our host family provided a good breakfast to Stephen, Daniel and myself. I shipped todays cold water shower hoping the the thermal springs swim yesterday was enough of a clean…
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Wednesday 23 January 2013 Highlights: Island Wildlife, religious stone statues, relaxing thermal springs. Today was a chance to explore this unique island while others went bike riding and the more fit and willing climbed Conception Volcano.
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Tuesday 22 January 2013 Highlights: Carriage ride around Granada, Sunset at Ometepe. As we weren’t leaving Granada until 12 this created an opportunity to explore the town. Following the advice of James and Robin I sought out their driver from yesterday who provided them a good under view commentary in English. Our new tour member…
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Monday 21 January 2013 Highlights: Laguna de Apoyo, Masaya local market, Masaya Volcano National Park. With around 4 hours sleep after the marathon 22 hour drive yesterday I crawled out of bed to visit the surrounding area of Granada. Some of the smarter members of our group decided to sleep in and see the city…
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Sunday 20 January 2013 Highlights: Escaping the island, 22 hours travelling to Granada 😦 We spent 22 hours travelling today. We left the hotel at 5.30 am and after trying to leave the island via a plane we instead got redirected to the Ferry for a very rough crossing back to the mainland. There were…
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Saturday 19 January 2013 Highlights: Worsening and spectacular weather. The weather worsened overnight leading to the cancellation of all today’s Ferries meaning we were stranded on the island. Gabo had to start working on alternative backup plans for tomorrow and the day after just in case we a still stuck on the island.
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Tour Title: Patagonia Experience and Antarctica in Depth Tour Company: G Adventures Tour Leader: Alvaro Jaime Dates: 29 October 2012 to 7 November 2012 Tour members: Seven Ben Noonan, Kurt Lybaert, Nina Pettersen, Christopher Barnes, Karen Taylor, David and myself. This tour is actually made up of two separate stages Patagonia and Antarctica. The Patgonia…
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Friday 18 January 2013 Highlights: Wild weather. Woke up today to rainy and windy weather that ended up cancelling all plans for the day. Luckily we had our beach dinner last night before everything changed.
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Thursday 17 January 2013 Highlights: Snorkelling in the Caribbean Sea I woke up in the Honduras version of Paradise, great sun, a nice beach and relaxing water rolling in.
