Trip: World Adventure June 29 2008
There are [598] stories from my trip: World Adventure June 29 2008
ECUADOR | Wednesday, 30 Jul 2008 | Photo Gallery
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 29 Jul 2008 | Views [704]
Hola Amigos, Day 1 - water levels were too high so canyoning was abandoned. The group went into banos for some exploring and to get a backlog of stinky clothes washed. The town had a lot of melcocha, chewy toffee, makers who were working their craft ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 27 Jul 2008 | Views [494]
Got back from our amazon trip and NO truck. Piled everyone and bags into a ute taxi and headed to where it was being repaired. Met the truck on the road. Had a broken alternator bracket which was welded before heading off for a 5hr drive to banos. Stopped ... Read more >
BOLIVIA | Sunday, 27 Jul 2008 | Photo Gallery
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 27 Jul 2008 | Views [576]
Hola ¿Como estas? So we drove into the jungle from Tena and found the rio napo the largest river in Ecuador. The flow was stronger than the big northern australian rivers when in flood so was quite impressive. The river was about 100m wide with large ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 22 Jul 2008 | Views [692]
Hola Amigos, Left Quito and have been driving for about 9 hours and just arrived at Tena in the Amazon basin. Amazing drive across the Andes and showed just a small example of how much water flowing into the amazon system. There were by far the most ... Read more >
ECUADOR | Monday, 21 Jul 2008 | Photo Gallery
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 21 Jul 2008 | Views [714]
Buenos Dias Amigos, Nice daytrip to Mindo in the cloud forest. Cloud forest? yes the same sort of thing as rainforest but in the clouds. Nothing like stating the obvious. Most of the others in the group went ziplining and rafting but not us. We were too sophisticated ... Read more >
ECUADOR | Sunday, 20 Jul 2008 | Photo Gallery
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 20 Jul 2008 | Views [770]
Hola all, Met the team and other travellers. 8 travellers including us for 3 weeks so lots of space then others will join. Didn´t feel particularly confindent about the organisation and didn´t instantly gel with any of the other travellers unfortunately.... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 19 Jul 2008 | Views [742]
Thanks everyone for the emails. We like receiving them but won´t be replying to many as there are soooooooo many of you and so few of us. Keep sending them as we enjoy reading them but our typing is soooooooo slow.... Regards, David and Vanessa
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 19 Jul 2008 | Views [727]
Hola All, Quick summary. Day 0 Travel. 6 hr car trip with 8 passengers + 1 driver our guide Naiser. Jess, Tom, Petra, Roota, Thomas, Samona, Vanessa and myself. Overnight stay at lago Agrio a dangerous oil town according to lonely planet. Day 1 3 ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 19 Jul 2008 | Photo Gallery
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 12 Jul 2008 | Photo Gallery
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 12 Jul 2008 | Views [996] | Comments [1]
Hola All, Beware this is a long entry, without pictures, and may induce sleep. Off the beaten track for a few days. Vanessa and I had move room in the secret garden and it was next to a dorm room toilet and was VERY noisy. Glad for the earplugs. This ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 9 Jul 2008 | Views [751] | Comments [1]
Hola, Wandered around the old city again today. Had to move rooms and are now in a room looking out onto the street with a view of the more modern cathederal. The cathederal has interesting gargoyles that range from turtles to anteaters. We looked ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 8 Jul 2008 | Views [501]
Hola. Vanessa and I wandered out amongst the old city today. We took great care to note how to get back to the secret garden which was lucky as the map we started out with was incorrect. Found what appeared to be a political protest at plaza grande o ... Read more >
ECUADOR | Monday, 7 Jul 2008 | Photo Gallery
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 7 Jul 2008 | Views [553]
Hola, Were here at Quito at the secret garden in the old city. LAN ecuador stuffed us around and held us up at departure gate and by the time we got to our seats the baggage storage was all full so we had our small backpacks between our legs for most ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 7 Jul 2008 | Views [759]
Hola, Como estas? We stayed at hostal de sammy. Sausage the dog, a black cocker spaniel, has replaced sammy, the australian cattle dog, who went to rainbow farm. Got to bed about midnight. Many of the others didn't find the room until about 2 am.... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 6 Jul 2008 | Views [786] | Comments [1]
Hola All, Easter island or Rapa nui or Isla de Pascau Am over the loss of my entry now. Here is a link with a map http://www.portalrapanui.cl/rapanui/mapa_isladepascua.htm Arrival - We were glad to get off the flight and get to bed. LAN chile ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 6 Jul 2008 | Views [584] | Comments [1]
Hola the basics summary since this W^%#*(%#& blog ate my fat entry. been to easter island. excellent. went via auckland - santiago to get there 21hrs flying. Had a great time. stayed at Camping Minihoa for 6 days. Nice and right near the water.... Read more >
CHILE | Sunday, 6 Jul 2008 | Photo Gallery
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