Nathan's Insights
World Traveller: 7 Continents, 90 Countries, 871 Days Overseas
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Category: World Trip 2006
An epic 153-day world trip visiting twenty-four countries – South Africa; Swaziland; France; England; Belgium; Holland; Germany; Czech Republic; Austria; Switzerland; Italy; Vatican; Monaco; Spain; Finland; Russia; Belarussia; Lithuania; Latvia; Estonia; Canada; USA; Hong Kong; China I traveled between 29 March 2006 and 28 August 2006.
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Monday 31 July 2006 Highlights: Gondola Mountain Ride, magnificent Chateau Banff, Dinner show A fantastic day of exploring and laughing. I started the day with a gondola (aka cable car) ride to the top of Sulphur Mountain. The view was spectacular of the area and the weather cold at the top. Most…
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Sunday 30 July 2006 Highlights: Walking on the Athabasca Glacier Today I got to walk on a 10,000 year old glacier, the Athabasca Glacier. Just getting to the glacier was an interesting experience riding a ‘bus’ that the use at the North Pole. The glacier as you can imagine is very cold despite this…
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Saturday 29 July 2006 Highlights: Hiking around Edith Clavell Mountain, visiting Jasper National Park A huge day saw a visit to Maligne Lake deep in the Jasper National Park and then a visit to Edith Clavell Mountain. It’s very hard to explain just have stunning Maligne Lake actually is, because it is so remote it…
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Friday 28 July 2006 Highlights: Canadian Rockies After saying good morning to the local squirrels we headed off for Jasper National Park and into the Canadian Rockies. The most impressive place we visited today was Mount Robson which stands at over 12,000 FT. It is so big that you can be very far…
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Thursday 27 July 2006 Highlights: Stanley Park The tour really began today. The group includes 35 people (10 more will join later) with a lot of USA citizens included which is a new experience for me. We started with a bus tour around Vancouver I had seen most of the sights already but the…
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