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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Friday 25 December 2009 Highlights: Exploring the Train Cemetery, Seeing how Salt is extracted, Exploring the Salt Flats, Christmas in Bolivia, Staying in a Salt Hotel Kelly was struggling due to altitude sickness and went to local hospital to receive some additional oxygen. Kelly recovered quickly but it was a reminder to us all to…
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Thursday 24 December 2009 Highlights: Travel day, watching local landscape change Leaving Potosi we caught a local long distance bus to Uyuni which took around 4.5 hours with one stop in the middle of nowhere to allow us to stretch our legs.
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Wednesday 23 December 2009 Highlights: Exploring a Potosi mine, buying dynamite, attending a Christmas event. Today we travelled for 4 hours from Sucre to mining town of Potosi stopping a few times to stretch our legs and take photos of the beautiful countryside.
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Tuesday 22 December 2009 Highlights: High altitude hike, Children’s Charity night Today was the day me and Andrew tested ourselves with a high altitude hike at 3,500 metres above sea level for 10 kms. We were both happy when Karen joined us for this hike. We met at the tour company at 8.30 am and…
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Monday 21 December 2009 Highlights: City tour of Sucre After a nice night in a comfortable bed and a good breakfast Andrew went down the street to get our clothes washed as we were down to almost nothing clean.
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Sunday 20 December 2009 Highlights: AeroSur high altitude flight and hair rising landing We said goodbye to David who had an earlier flight to catch, it seems that the first part of our tour is now over. Andrew wrote a personal message to David and gave it to him with our tip.
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Saturday 19 December 2009 Highlights: Night club dancing and fun The overnight train trip went well; they even served a nice meal. Kelly seemed to sleep well curled up like a cat in the opposite seat; I believe Andrew and Gareth played Mario Kart on the DS consoles for most of the night.
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Friday 18 December 2009 Highlights: Sunrise in Pantanal Today we left the stunning Pantanal but first some of us got up at 5.00 am to see a amazing sunrise. On my return to the cabin I found that Andrew had considered waking up, but decided against it 🙂
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Thursday 17 December 2009 Highlights: Day Safari and wildlife spotting, Horse riding Today we set out on a day safari of the countryside. We saw lots of different wildlife, caiman, capivara and giant river otters. With the caiman we went down to the river and slowly got closer, David even got into the water —…
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Wednesday 16 December 2009 Highlights: Mosquitoes attack, Night safari We set of to the Pantanal today which is a large area of mostly swamp land. The roads are very rough and as we found out when we changed rides to a truck mosquitoes attack all the time. We will spend the next few days sleeping…
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