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PERU | Monday, 19 Nov 2007 | Views [959]
Cusco is a pretty amazing city. The outskirts of the town rise up steep mountain slopes, cobblestone roads and Inca stone walls snake through the interior of the city, and tiny red mud-brick houses tower above the city center. Poverty abounds and ... Read more >
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ECUADOR | Wednesday, 31 Oct 2007 | Views [4449]
We learned from the hotel manager today that the President of Ecuador doesn't want people celebrating Halloween, so while there used to be big festivities in the city, they've now been banned. The "New Town" part of the city has been famous ... Read more >
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ECUADOR | Tuesday, 30 Oct 2007 | Views [905]
We awake to a clear, crisp spring day. Quito is surrounded by mountains, volcanic slopes and rolling hills. Quito's Old Town is classified as a World Heritage site, and walking the streets we can understand why; beautifully maintained and restored ... Read more >
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GUATEMALA | Tuesday, 16 Oct 2007 | Views [2016]
A trip to Panama would not be complete without a trip to see the all important Panama Canal. I was prepared for a boring walk along a fenced off area, viewing big container ships move through a narrow passage way of water. We were both blown away with ... Read more >
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GUATEMALA | Sunday, 23 Sep 2007 | Views [932]
Brilliant colors abound everywhere, the streets are crawling with woven textiles, leather, produce and a ton of interesting handicrafts from traditional clothing, to carved masks, to dolls to musical instruments. There's a small white church at the far ... Read more >
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SPAIN | Tuesday, 11 Sep 2007 | Views [799]
We’ve
been to Madrid several times over the past years, so our days here we
spend wandering the streets, on breaks from our administrative chores
that keep us cooped up in our guest house - the Gran Duque. However,
on todays exercise break through ... Read more >
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EGYPT | Wednesday, 15 Aug 2007 | Views [3613]
We'd
always dreamed of one day traveling to see the Great Pyramids of Giza,
but never thought we'd get the chance. We actually decided to come to
Egypt on an invitation from my friend Kim, when we realized we could
add the flight into our One World ... Read more >
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EGYPT | Monday, 13 Aug 2007 | Views [1285]
"Are
we at the temple yet?" A common question we seem to ask ourselves
during our daily temple finding missions. In Egypt there doesn't seem
to be great sign-age for major attractions. We leave our hotel at 6:00
a.m. to catch Karnak ... Read more >
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EGYPT | Sunday, 12 Aug 2007 | Views [1007]
We
arrive at 1:30 a.m., south of Cairo, about half way down Egypt's Nile,
to the famed city of Luxor. Exhausted, we check into our budget hotel
and crash out, awakening to the beeping of Darrin's watch alarm. It's
10:00 a.m., just 30 minutes before ... Read more >
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EGYPT | Sunday, 12 Aug 2007 | Views [781]
There's
something to be said for feeling safer in countries that have seen
their share of security breaches and terrorist attacks. Looking around
the streets of Egypt, in any city, there are regular police, undercover
police and tourist police all ... Read more >
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FINLAND | Saturday, 4 Aug 2007 | Views [1109]
Helsinki
was not always on our list of dream places to travel in the world. We
chose it because it was Darrin's "suicide pick" several years ago, when
I posed the question to him, "Where would you go if you lost your job
and got a ... Read more >
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VIETNAM | Sunday, 29 Jul 2007 | Views [1197]
Hanoi
is full of sounds, the streets are humming at a very early hour of the
morning. Communist propaganda blares from the megaphones strapped atop
telephone poles. It starts with singing and changing at 6:00 a.m. The
megaphone is prominently ... Read more >
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VIETNAM | Monday, 23 Jul 2007 | Views [1096]
Hoi An is a quaint, colorful town, full of character, culture and atmosphere. Walking through the streets we find ourselves in a swirl of brilliant colors. Vietnamese silk lanterns hang from shop windows and decorate the exterior of buildings. Their ... Read more >
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VIETNAM | Friday, 6 Jul 2007 | Views [1283]
Saigon, renamed Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) after the fall of South Vietnam to North Vietnam in 1975, was named after "Uncle Ho" (Ho Chi Minh) as the locals refer to him. HCMC is a big city, compared to many we've recently visited. It's surprisingly ... Read more >
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CAMBODIA | Sunday, 1 Jul 2007 | Views [1115]
We're enjoying our second pass through Phnom Penh. We've chosen to stay near the riverside this time, and the city is a buzz with activity. Ornate wats rise through the city, surrounded by parks and circled by monks clad in orange robes. Groups of ... Read more >
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LAOS | Tuesday, 19 Jun 2007 | Views [1275]
We took the early morning mini-van out of Vang Viene, to continue down Route 13 to Vientiane. True to form - transportation in Laos - it took them an hour to move through the small town to pick up passengers, and then once we were 10 minutes out of ... Read more >
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NEPAL | Monday, 16 Apr 2007 | Views [1336]
We did our pre-trek training- a whole 2 hour trek up and down a steep hill to the World Peace Pagoda which was constructed by Buddhist monks form the Japanese Nipponzan Myohoji. We hired a canoe with a 'rower/driver' for 500 NPR, and he paddled us across ... Read more >
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INDIA | Thursday, 29 Mar 2007 | Views [915]
We have found hours of entertainment in observing and reading signage posted around India. We toured through a museum today in Mysore where someone had gone crazy with a label maker on all the objects on display. They were labeled with ... Read more >
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INDIA | Thursday, 22 Mar 2007 | Views [908]
Our stay in Hassan was just a quick overnight, as it’s a great hub to see the temples at Halebid and Belur. These Hoysala temples are supposedly the pinnacles of artistic temple architecture during one of the most artistically interesting ... Read more >
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INDIA | Tuesday, 20 Mar 2007 | Views [907]
Loaded up with Imodium, I’m armed and ready for today’s full day exploration of the Vijayanagar ruins, formerly the capital of the largest Hindu empire in India; which are classified as a World Heritage Site. We hired a guide for 500rs for the day, ... Read more >
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