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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...
Member: Paul
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Goodbye Edinburgh, Hello World
Well, apparently our time is nearly up and we're having to return to dear old Blighty very soon. Life's a beach, isn't it? Well it has been for us recently, anyway. We've been in Thailand for around two months now. It's the kind of place where nothi...
Member: FisherTours and BoothTravel
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New Zealand - The South Island
Okay, is this what mother nature does to get back at us for complaining too much about the heat in Australia?? Today was cold and rainy (high of 9C) as we made our way from Gore to Te Anau. The poor weather started yesterday as we spent time in the m...
Member: Doris and Mike
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New Zealand & Australia
Caught the morning ferry from Picton to Wellington, and on the TV they were showing the funeral of the Maori Queen, who died about a week ago. The Maori kingship was formed in the 1840s, when the Maoris decided they needed to unite, to better resist th...
Member: Louise
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New Zealand 2005
The bus trip started today - nine days of travelling in an anti-clockwise direction around the South Island, from Christchurch to Christchurch via everywhere. I'm on a trip organised by Stray Travel, which is a more 'grown-up' version of the typical ba...
Member: Richard
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New Zealand 2006
27 March I got to Dunedin and lunchtime and met Phil by the train station. He is the eldest of my NZ cousins. He showed me around Dunedin and then dropped my stuff off at his home. I had a great day around the city, shopping and looking at the Scottis...
Member: alexandra
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New Zealand South Island
Well, we have hit the South Island with a bang, meeting the coldest June reported in 50 odd years! Yes, freezing! Just in time for all the Winter Festivals so perfect! I must say that the jet lag was pretty bad on arrival here. We booked ourselve...
Member: Julie
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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....
Member: Fabien
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New Zealand 2007
At around 8.30, we were all on the bus and heading to Christchurch - I was flying in the afternoon and would have about an hour of leisurely strolling about the city before I had to take a shuttle to the airport. The largest city of the south island, ...
Member: Anna
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New Zealand and Christmas/New Year 2006
27th Making good progress, we arrived in Rotorua, the spa town right in the middle of the North Island around 4ish. This compact city is on built on the site of active volcanoes, hence the hot springs all over the place and the constant smelly of rott...
Member: Graham
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The Pacific, NZ and a tiny bit of Oz
Dunedin is a nice but fairly quiet town. We found the world's steepest street - Badwin st and drove to the top and held our breath on the steep descent! Then we drove out to the Otago peninsula and visited Larnach Castle - New Zealand's only castle. ...
Member: Chris and Aine
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Gap Year : New Zealand
It's a little over a week now since I left Whitianga. I'm currently sitting in the net cafe at Base Backpackers in Wellington on a sweaty Thursday evening with a nice cup of tea. I'm here in Wellington until Sunday morning, when I catch my flight over ...
Member: Luke
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Trip to New Zealand, USA and Canada
Skiing at lake Lousie was pretty sweet with me and matty enjoying a massive dumping while jezza was at home resting a sore ankle. Poor guy, we ate burgers there too. We also spent waitangi day there skiing which turned into a morning side for life fre...
Member: Steve
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Look out for Kiwis !!
DAY 0 On the 19th of December (a Tuesday) after a pretty nice Christmas lunch with my working team in a nice restaurant in town (I shouldn’t have had so much wine…), I took the plane from Melbourne to land in Christchurch, where I was joined a couple ...
Member: Katia
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Grant's travels 2006 - 2007
Return to the Melbourne...
Member: Grant
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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 ...
Member: jenny
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New Zealand
9 April 07 QUEENSTOWN! Queenstown has everything an adrenaline junky could want. There is everything going on here - skydiving, bungy jumping, jet boats, paragliding, parascending, and more. We didn't do any of that today, but it's been fun! W...
Member: Charlotte and Dyce
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um-die-welt 2007
Mit etwas Verspaetung komme ich endlich dazu hier ueber meine Erlebnisse auf dieser Reise zu berichten. Also Argentinien die Erste: Meine erste Station ist Buenos Aires. Eine Stadt mit Charme der Alten Welt vermischt mit einem kraeftigen Schuss Modern...
Member: Baltasar
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Te Anau
We spent a little more time in Dunedin this morning as we forgot to take the camera in the day before. We then left for Te Anau with Lucy doing the first half of the driving and me doing the second half. enroute we took some pictures of views and deer....
Member: Michael
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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...
Member: Dion & Steph
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Around the world...
Arriving in Dalat was a bit odd as it is right up in the Highlands and is about 10 degrees cooler than we have been used to. We had a great couple of days there. The town is pretty quiet but there are some great waterfalls and lakes in the area around ...
Member: Sarah and Ricky
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