Category: World Trip 2009-2010
A 66-day adventure visting seven countries USA, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, and New Zealand between 27 November 2009 and 31 January 2010.
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Monday 4 January 2010 Highlights: Paragliding over the Sacred Valley of the Incas I finally managed to eat some food for breakfast so I must be getting over the bug / food poisoning. Andrew managed to convince Karen to sign up for paragliding today so off all three of us went at 9.30 am. The…
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Sunday 3 January 2010 Highlights: Struggling to recover, the beautiful Plaza de Armas First we said goodbye to Shrina, Indu, Kate and Brooke for their Amazon adventure, however it turned out later that Brooke had to miss the Amazon trip due to being unwell. I understand a doctor had to assist Brooke. I was still not…
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Saturday 2 January 2010 Highlights: Still very unwell Unfortunately I was still very unwell and this was a travel day. I barely survive the 4 hour journey but I got there somehow.
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Friday 1 January 2010 Highlights: Floating islands of Lake Titicaca, Food Poisoning Andrew and myself showed no ill effects from the big party last night and after a big breakfast made by our ‘mother’ we went down to the boat and said goodbye to the community that gave us so much fun last night.
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Thursday 31 December 2009 Highlights: Exploring Taguile Island, Capachica Peninsula Home Stay, Community Dancing and New Year’s Celebration New Year’s Eve Special Today we set off to explore Lake Titicaca and its local people. This started with us catching bicycle rides down to the port. Gareth as ever kept encouraging his bike rider to past…
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Wednesday 30 December 2009 Highlights: Cute baby llamas Getting up at 6.45 am we packed our bags and went down to breakfast. Andrew tried salt pancakes (by accident) but I thought it was funny. We caught a bus to San Pedro de Tiquina which was right on the edge of Lake Titicaca from there we…
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Tuesday 29 December 2009 Highlights: Witches Market, San Francisco Church, La Paz Cathedral, Presidential Palace, Moon valley Today sees us start the 3rd and last leg of the South American tour so later tonight we will met our new tour leader and two new tour members. Renato, Monica, Lance and Martin left today.
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Monday 28 December 2009 Highlights: Adventures on an overnight bus, Andrew failing the vindaloo challenge The overnight bus trip ended up taking 14.5 hours instead of the scheduled 12 due to the bus getting stuck in 2 different mud slides, an experience to be sure especially with my seat broken. This meant we got into…
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Sunday 27 December 2009 Highlights: Geysers, thermal baths, Laguna Colorada (red lagoon), Laguna Verde (blue/green lake) Today we got up at 4.15 am, I was so asleep I managed to scalp myself going to the toilet, Bolivians are not very tall and a lot of the infrastructure reflects this with low ceilings and door frames,…
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Saturday 26 December 2009 Highlights: Exploring Uyuni Desert, Flamingos After experiencing an amazing sunrise over the Salt Flats we said goodbye to our Salt Hotel and set off to explore the Uyuni Desert. The Uyuni Desert has some amazing foundations and landscape. Along the way we run across a watering hole which had some beautiful…
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