INDIA | Sunday, 25 Mar 2007 | Views [407] | Comments [1]
After our trek we arrived back in Pokhara and then traveled on to the Chitwan National Park. We had an eventful journey there as there was a road block on one of the main roads. This had been set up by some villagers because some children had been hit ... Read more >
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INDIA | Saturday, 24 Feb 2007 | Views [276]
From Jaipur we went to the bird reserve at Bharatpur and had a pleasant day cycling and bird watching. But the fabled spoonbills, Siberian cranes and other migrant water birds have deserted the reserve due to a lack of water. This is a big issue in ... Read more >
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INDIA | Friday, 2 Feb 2007 | Views [680] | Comments [1]
Lou and I met up in Mumbai on January 12 th and after a couple of days set off to the Deccan Plateau to explore the Ajanta and Ellora caves. The Ajanta caves were cut by Buddhists into the side of a river canyon, and contain complete temples and prayer ... Read more >
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ARGENTINA | Tuesday, 9 Jan 2007 | Views [334]
In mid December my sister Anita flew out to join me (Louise) here in Argentina for a two week holiday. We spent a few days in Buenos Aires and then went to an estancia for three days of horse riding and country living. The ranch was enormous with ... Read more >
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INDIA | Tuesday, 2 Jan 2007 | Views [864] | Comments [3]
A Happy New Year to all our readers! I (Will) arrived in Goa about three weeks ago after flying from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania via Dubai Airport (a shock return to the first world) and then onto Hyderabad in Central India. Since I was last in India ... Read more >
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TANZANIA | Monday, 11 Dec 2006 | Views [417]
After a short stay in Livingstone I took the bus to Lusaka , the capital of Zambia . I should have stayed in Livingstone longer as the day I traveled was one of the very few I’ve been ill on this trip, with very bad guts. A most unpleasant journey ... Read more >
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ZIMBABWE | Monday, 27 Nov 2006 | Views [769]
The final destination of my overland truck was Victoria Falls, which is on the borders of three countries, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana, and our truck spent the weekend on the Zimbabwe side. Zimbabwe has a reputation as being one of the basket ... Read more >
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BOTSWANA | Sunday, 19 Nov 2006 | Views [399]
Since my last update I have traveled across Northern Namibia and Botswana to Victoria Falls. Along the way our overland truck visited a couple of National Parks, which were full of the most spectacular wildlife. After leaving the Skeleton Coast ... Read more >
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ARGENTINA | Sunday, 19 Nov 2006 | Views [280]
I have been in Buenos Aires for the last seven weeks working on my Spanish. I am staying with a delightful local couple, Geno and Eduardo, in their large house in the north of the city. On weekday mornings I take a Spanish class and then spend the ... Read more >
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NAMIBIA | Sunday, 5 Nov 2006 | Views [467]
Last Saturday I started my three week overland tour that will take me through Namibia, Botswana to Victoria Falls. I am travelling with twenty five others on a converted lorry which has a comfortable bus like interior with large storage areas underneath ... Read more >
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SOUTH AFRICA | Saturday, 28 Oct 2006 | Views [877]
“The fairest cape in all the world” said Sir Francis Drake. With the backdrop of Table Mountain Cape Town must have one of the most distinctive profiles in the world. I have spent most of the last two weeks here, partly because there is so much ... Read more >
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SOUTH AFRICA | Sunday, 22 Oct 2006 | Views [340]
From Kimberley I went to Bloemfontein, the capital of the Free State, formally the Orange Free State and the capital of Afrikaanadom, It has some impressive public buildings and a great museum but there’s not much there to hold a traveler for long.... Read more >
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SOUTH AFRICA | Sunday, 8 Oct 2006 | Views [541]
This week I left Pretoria and took the bus to Kimberley. The bus headed down the motorway to Jo’berg, passing lots of distribution centres and multinational headquarters before reaching the leafy suburbs of North Johannesburg. Every building is heavily ... Read more >
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SOUTH AFRICA | Wednesday, 4 Oct 2006 | Views [974] | Comments [1]
After over a year in Latin America, last week I flew to South Africa to continue my trip in Africa. The plane flew via Cape Town and I got a glimpse of Table Mountain as we came into land, before heading onto Johannesburg. I decided not to stay in ... Read more >
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ARGENTINA | Wednesday, 27 Sep 2006 | Views [164] | Comments [2]
For the next few months our paths will diverge; for the rest of the year we´ll each be pursuing different interests. Will is flying to South Africa to spend a month before heading up through Southern and East Africa to Tanzania. Lou is going to stay ... Read more >
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CHILE | Sunday, 17 Sep 2006 | Views [475]
This week we crossed the Andes twice, going from Mendoza in Argentina to Santiago in Chile and back again. The snow covered mountains dominate the views in both cites and the route between them is one of the most spectacular in the world. The road ... Read more >
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ARGENTINA | Saturday, 9 Sep 2006 | Views [408]
Cordoba, in the west of Argentina, is the second city and was settled mainly by Italians. This heritage lives on in the food with one of the local specialities being spinach filled canneloni with cheese and leak sauce; although you are never too far ... Read more >
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URUGUAY | Tuesday, 22 Aug 2006 | Views [729] | Comments [1]
After spending a few days in Buenos Aires we took the ferry across the River Plate to the colonial town of Colonia, on the Uruguayan side of the estuary. Colonia is a beautiful town which we had visited before on our previous trip to the region. This ... Read more >
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PARAGUAY | Wednesday, 9 Aug 2006 | Views [996] | Comments [1]
Paraguay is a forgotten little country: sandwiched between larger neighbours, it is known - if at all - for smuggling, unpleasant former dictators, and as a place of exile for Nazis after the war. We crossed the frontier bridge from Brazil to the Paraguayan ... Read more >
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BRAZIL | Tuesday, 1 Aug 2006 | Views [1104] | Comments [1]
Rio ’s reputation goes before it, the beaches, the setting, the criminal mayhem. All is true except the last, it is a fantastic city and probably the most relaxing one we’ve been in for a very long time. The setting reminded us very much of Hong Kong, ... Read more >
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BRAZIL | Tuesday, 18 Jul 2006 | Views [1485] | Comments [2]
This week we have had an education in Brazilian architecture: from the modernist, centrally-planned capital city to the baroque grandeur of Ouro Preto. Distances in Brazil are vast so we flew from Manaus down to Brasilia, in the centre of the country.... Read more >
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BRAZIL | Tuesday, 11 Jul 2006 | Views [398] | Comments [1]
Our first Saturday in Brazil coincided with Brazil playing France in the quarter finals of the World Cup. When the match was on, the streets of Porto Velho were completely deserted with no traffic or people about. To the disgust of the locals, the ... Read more >
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BOLIVIA | Sunday, 2 Jul 2006 | Views [475]
After two and a half months of high mountains and bright cold weather, we have spent the last two weeks in the steamy green jungle and flatlands of Northern Bolivia. From La Paz we took a minibus down the Death Road, descending 3500m from the Andes ... Read more >
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BOLIVIA | Monday, 19 Jun 2006 | Views [865]
We have had a busy couple of weeks traveling around the central area of Bolivia. From La Paz we went to the city of Potosi, at 4000 meters the highest city of its size in the world, bright and cool most of the time. A couple of hundred years it was ... Read more >
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BOLIVIA | Friday, 2 Jun 2006 | Views [1936]
After another trek in the Cusco area (look at the pictures under the Photo Gallery "Cusco to Lamy Trek", a fill description of this trek can be found at http://journals.worldnomads.com/will/ ) we got a bus south to Lake Titicaca, the world´s ... Read more >
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PERU | Wednesday, 17 May 2006 | Views [1012]
We have just returned from a three day trek that starts in the Sacred Valley, and which is known as the Lares valley trek as it ends in the small town of Lares. As we don’t like doing tours we organized things ourselves and carried our own kit and ... Read more >
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PERU | Monday, 8 May 2006 | Views [619]
We´re in Cusco, which for the Incas was the “navel of the world”, the centre of their massive empire which ran from southern Colombia to northern Chile. When the Spanish conquered Cusco in the 16 th century they symbolically demolished the ... Read more >
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PERU | Wednesday, 26 Apr 2006 | Views [351]
It’s been quite a while since our last post and we have covered a lot of ground. We celebrated one year on the road in Huaraz in the spectacular Cordillera Blanca, a famous trekking area. We spent about a week there and did a few day treks from Huaraz.... Read more >
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PERU | Saturday, 1 Apr 2006 | Views [412]
The roadblocks by the highland people, protesting about the free trade agreement with the US, cut off Riobamba for 4 days from the main north-south highway. We went walking on the old Inca royal trail up in the nearby mountains to find it being used ... Read more >
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ECUADOR | Wednesday, 15 Mar 2006 | Views [320]
Having got back to Quito from the Galapagos we spent a few days there, seeing films and catching up on admin. We were also waiting for our sleeping bags which were in the post, these had been sent onto us by our friends in Seattle and were taking a very ... Read more >
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ECUADOR | Thursday, 23 Feb 2006 | Views [1124] | Comments [2]
For the last three weeks we have been wildlife watching and enjoying the Galapagos Islands. Rather than take a week long boat cruise, we decided to travel around the islands more slowly on our own, organising day trips as we went. The Galapagos have ... Read more >
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ECUADOR | Tuesday, 31 Jan 2006 | Views [323]
Since the last update we have explored the southern part of Colombia and are now in Ecuador. From Popayan, a beautiful old university town in Colombia we took a five hour bus journey over the mountains to the small town of San Augustin. This town should ... Read more >
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COLOMBIA | Tuesday, 10 Jan 2006 | Views [1381] | Comments [2]
We celebrated Christmas on a beach on a lovely islamd off Panama City and had Christmas dinner, Panamanian style, in the evening at a good hotel. A few days later my sister flew back to England and we flew across the Darien Gap to Medellin in Columbia.... Read more >
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PANAMA | Saturday, 17 Dec 2005 | Views [425] | Comments [2]
For the past few weeks we have been travelling around Panama. We first went to the mountain town of Boquete, which is famous for its coffee and good climate, so good its being colonized by American retirees. Close by is Panamas only volcano, now extinct, ... Read more >
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COSTA RICA | Thursday, 1 Dec 2005 | Views [296]
Last week we were at the quiet beach of Samara on the north west coast of Costa Rica, swimming in the sea in the mornings and watching the surfers in the afternoons when the bigger waves had built up. A long day of buses and a wait in a tiny agricultural ... Read more >
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NICARAGUA | Thursday, 17 Nov 2005 | Views [370] | Comments [2]
Over the last couple of weeks we have traveled through Nicaragua and have now arrived in Costa Rica. Nicaragua was a great country to travel in, some really outstanding and accessible sights and lovely towns. It was also very relaxed, hardly a pump action ... Read more >
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EL SALVADOR | Wednesday, 2 Nov 2005 | Views [294]
Last week we saw some of tiny El Salvador. It is beautifully green and mountainous but, like some other countries in Central America, it has a violent past and not many tourists come here. We visited the old colonial city of Santa Ana and then got a bus ... Read more >
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GUATEMALA | Tuesday, 25 Oct 2005 | Views [234]
Last week we left Antigua to spend a week or so in Honduras. We visited the Mayan ruins at Copan and had planned to head to the coast to stay on the Bay Islands. We had to cancel this trip as Hurricane Wilma brewed up and the coast was put on Hurricane ... Read more >
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GUATEMALA | Tuesday, 11 Oct 2005 | Views [235]
We have spent the last week in beautiful Antigua which has been little affected by the destruction wrought by Tropical Storm Stan in large parts of Guatemala. The death toll for the country is now over 600, with tens of thousands of homes washed away ... Read more >
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GUATEMALA | Wednesday, 5 Oct 2005 | Views [268]
We are writing this from Antigua in Guatemala where we are experiencing Tropical Storm Stan. This storm is far to the north of us in Mexico but it has meant that we have had three days of heavy rain which is beginning to effect the country. A bridge has ... Read more >
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