South America 2006

For Rebecca and Molly: Cue music ´So Happy Together´ and fade from black to Melissa frolicking with penguins. Slow motion Melissa spins around with a wing in each hand in a big penguin circle. For everyone else: Our last stop before Buen...

 

Chile

2 July 07 St Peter and St Paul Festival Yesterday we thought the the town was shut down because it was Sunday. Turns out that there is a festival here (like a bank holiday I suppose) and everything is shut once again! Had we known we would have pro...

 

Maya's Inca Venture

Well, its one week into our project, and we are getting along well. From the photos you can see we have already got the structure of our beautiful green house up (dubbed the love shack!!). Starting from monday, we arrived at our school, after our tr...

 

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...

 

South America 05-06

Made it to the bus station in Santiago with about 10 minutes to spare- which usually puts me there before most of the Chileans. I had heard there may be snow on the pass, but the roads were clear, so we made it over with no problems. Well, it did tak...

 

Back in Peru

5 July 07 Beautiful, Chilled Out Huaraz! Today has been a good one. After a really lazy morning watching TV in bed ... (yes, I know that is really bad but we haven´t had a TV for absolutely ages, especially one with English channels so it was ...

 

Peru Again - Nth to Sth

A sad farewell to Mancora was made with a few beers on the beach, another fantastic sunset and star wars empire strikes back. We reached the bus stop and our fulash bush turned up (late of course) but it was full, overbooked by 4 people. We argued fo...

 

2004.11~2005.02 South America

Month 1 of our 4 month trip through South America. We started our journey back at the beginning of November with a few days in Buenos Aires, and although we’re not normally that keen on big cities, we really enjoyed it. The city is very cosmopolitan...

 

On the way to Santiago

Again, La Paz airport, my luggage is over weight this time. I had to take some stuff out to avoid paying the fine. I've been worried all the time. I don't know how long I'll stay blocked in this country, Bolivia. The entire intercity transportation...

 

South America 2004/5

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