South America 2004/5

6 Countries 50 Day 7 Friends ...

 

ROUND THE WORLD

Spent only 2 days in Arequipa, leaving us too little time to visit the nearby Colca canyon. Instead we rested and visited the charming Santa Catalina monastery....

 

Brazil

Our trip to the falls first included a tour of the dam, one of the worlds biggest and with the highest power output, aparently. It is a joint venture between Brazil and Paraguay so we got to go to both sides. The falls themselves are amazing, a must se...

 

Our Big Around the World Adventure

We arrived in San Pedro de Atacama after 3 days touring through the Bolivian salt flats and deserts, rather the worse for wear and very grubby! Thrilled to be in a place that was a bit more upmarket and tourist friendly, we treated ourselves to our mos...

 

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In many travellers, there’s a conception of travel that recreates it as an instance of personal finding. Everything we’ll see in a destination is part of a search process that should exclusively take place there, in the interaction with local peopl...

 

World Trip 2007-2008

We finally got to this place called "San Pedro de Atacama", a tiny little town in the middle of a plain in the Atacama desert that was surrounded by mountains in the far distance. Some of the houses and their rooves were made of mud. The road...

 

Brazil - Caipirinha anyone?

South America -been there done that ;) Its been a couple of weeks since being back and the skin has just stopped from peeling. Yes l got me a tan after 3 years living in London. It was my biggest achievement on this trip. I really enjoyed it - 2...

 

Round the World Trip 2006/07

We arrived in La Paz on Thursday afternoon. It is absolute mayhem here! Buses, taxis, combis and people everywhere. Crossing the road is a challenge in itself. We went to an Asian restaurant for our farewell meal on Thursday night. Having not had a cur...

 

Favela

Favela is the name of those slums, shanty towns, ghetos in Rio de Janeiro. Any guide book would tell you "By any means, DO NOT walk into a favela, day or night!" Favela is always related to poverty and crime. If you ask a Carioca (residents o...

 

THE HOT ADVENTURES OF A NOT COLD BIATCH

Had to draaag myself out of bed and realised I had absolutely no idea what I had booked for myself so couldn't really pack for my overnight stay on an island on Lake Titicaca. So kept the rest of the group waiting while I, completely flustered, threw s...

 

London 1995

After a night in the upstairs room of a pub with an Australian girl called Corrina and a bottle of tequila I am smitten. She leaves a few days later to work in a pub in the Gambia. I book a ticket and fly back to Africa for the first time since leaving...

 

South & Central America 2005-2006

My travels 2005- 2006...

 

Inca42

Ok so I haven't written an update for quite a long time so I've forgotten a lot of the details of what's happened. Nonetheless I will try to give a brief overview of what I've done in the last couple of months. The last entry covered up until I arri...

 

Round the World Trip

I know when you see the pictures of what we are wearing you will think to yourselves where can I get these outfits from? Well, I hate to dissapoint you it is not easy looking this good - Tights and shorts - gifts. boots and coats $90. Looking like comp...

 

South America Adventures

Ok guys, can´t remember where I left you, but I now have friends! Horray! My room mate is called Liz, not Elizabeth Rose as I 1st feared... she´s got a great sense of humour and I´ve threatened to call her by her official title from h...

 

Fechado?

"Fechado" means "closed" in Portugese. I'm in Rio since two days, "fechado" is the word that I use the most frequently here. Yesterday, when I went to visit the Pao de Acucar, the famous hill in Rio, it was "fecha...

 

ALL ABOUT BRAZIL

Visiting family ...journey to the past...

 

RTW with Steph and Dion

Written by Dion August 11-12, 2006 We decided to spend a couple of days in Uruguay, so we boarded the 9:00AM Buquebus ferry from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay on Friday morning. The ferry itself was quite nice and the rid...

 

South America 2006

This bit is on it´s way......

 

South America 2006

From Foz do Iguazu, we headed south in to Argentina and have had a few very long days driving. The first night, we had a "bush camp" enroute and pitched our tents in the middle of a forest with no-one for miles around us, it was good fun, ...

 

A Short History of Toilets in South American

Villa de Leiva proved well worth the 4.5 hour bus ride to and from Bogota. This picturesque hilltop 16th-century village was declared a National Monument in 1954, so any furhter development on the 400 year old site must be carried out in the colonial ...

 

The World Jaunt

Auckland...

 

Brazil

Day 12 Rio de Janeiro, Hotel Portinari Finally, a driect flight! But it was delayed almost 2 hours. Anyhow, we flew into Rio, and met up with Steph’s mom, Roseil., and soon found ourselves in a rental car driving through the industrail side of Rio. Ri...

 

South America I: Argentina, Uruguay, Brasil, Bolivia, Peru 2006

Copacaban in Bolivia, from where we visited Isla del Sol, and Puno in Peru, from where we visited the Uros Floating islands, Isla Amantani and Isla Taquile. Thur 29 June 2006 We took a bus from Puno to Cusco last night and after 7.5 hours arrived ...

 

South America 2006

Scored emergency exit row seats for our two longest flights over (Sydney to Auckland then Auckland to Santiago), which made the 24 hour trip a bit less torturous. Chile (the airport at least) was quite chilly, and then so was Buenos Aires, but it wa...

 

South America 2001

Brasil. Arrived in Sao Paulo, hung out with family for a week. Nathalie arrived and we headed off to Rio together... The weekend has been fantastic - 25+ degrees - and we spent all of it on the beach. We found this great spot were all the ...

 

flying north for summer

We've been reading more about the history of this place, and yesteray went to a film about Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, so we're slowly managing to understand a bit more of the dismal past of Cambodia - although the more you learn about it the less it ...

 

Weltreise 2006

In Darwin checken wir in Chillis Backpacker Hostel ein. Unser Plan, die Westkueste entlang zu reisen, platzt innerhalb einer Minute, da zwischen Darwin und Broome alle Strassen ueberschwemmt sind und es auch zwischen Broome und Perth sieben Zyklone gab...