Nathan's Insights
World Traveller: 7 Continents, 90 Countries, 871 Days Overseas
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Category: World Trip 2012-2013
A massive 139-day trip covering fifteen countries; Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Iceland, Chile, Antartica, Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, Belize, Gauteemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, between 27 September 2012 and 13 February 2013.
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Saturday 22 December 2012 Highlights: Sumidero Canyon, Local Market, San Cristóbal Cathedral A free day for the group and I decided to accompany Robin, James, Cynthia and Sam on the Sumidero Canyon activity. It was an hour and half to the Canyon which was interesting in itself as we drove through the clouds! Strangely the…
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Friday 21 December 2012 Highlights: Surviving the 12 hour overnight bus ride, Chomula and Zincantan Mayan villages. The day actually started the night before at 9 pm when our bus pulled out of Oaxaca for a scheduled 12 hour overnight trip. It started well enough with Aaron and myself watching “True Lies” – thanks iPad!
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Thursday 20 December 2012 Highlights: The magnificent Monte Alban Ruins We had a planned catch up with Sid for 10 am for those heading up to the Monte Alban Ruins. Due to a miscommunication the catchup didn’t occur instead Cynthia, Xinglu, Tina and myself headed off to find the tourist bus stop. We found Sam…
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Wednesday 19 December 2012 Highlights: Largest Tree in the World, Zapotec ruins, Petrified Waterfalls, Mezcal alcohol, Traditional clothes weaving. An enormous day of activities and and embarrassing moment for myself. Today I signed up for a multiple event tour out of Oaxaca. This started with a visit to Tule which has the largest (wildest) tree…
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Tuesday 18 December 2012 Highlights: Magnificent mountains, Oaxaca Cathedral, nightclub drinking Today we had a 6 hour bus ride to Oaxaca a town of around 270,000 people. We are moving to smaller and smaller cities as we progress. The bus ride actually had one significant positive the scenery of the magnificent and dominating mountains.
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