ARGENTINA | Saturday, 9 Sep 2006 | Photo Gallery
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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 | Photo Gallery
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URUGUAY | Tuesday, 22 Aug 2006 | Views [2192] | 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 [2264] | 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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PARAGUAY | Wednesday, 9 Aug 2006 | Photo Gallery
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BRAZIL | Saturday, 5 Aug 2006 | Photo Gallery
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BRAZIL | Tuesday, 1 Aug 2006 | Views [2921] | 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 | Wednesday, 19 Jul 2006 | Photo Gallery
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BRAZIL | Tuesday, 18 Jul 2006 | Views [7744] | Comments [3]
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 | Photo Gallery
Our journey down the Rio Madeira and the city of Manaus.
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BRAZIL | Tuesday, 11 Jul 2006 | Views [948] | 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 | Monday, 3 Jul 2006 | Photo Gallery
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BOLIVIA | Sunday, 2 Jul 2006 | Views [1280]
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 | Photo Gallery
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BOLIVIA | Monday, 19 Jun 2006 | Views [5176]
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 | Sunday, 4 Jun 2006 | Photo Gallery
Views of the Lake and some of the islands and villages around it.
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BOLIVIA | Friday, 2 Jun 2006 | Views [13765]
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 | Tuesday, 23 May 2006 | Photo Gallery
Photos from our trek which relate to the SAE Club Trip Report route description.The pictures are in the order walked.
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PERU | Wednesday, 17 May 2006 | Photo Gallery
Taken on our three day trek near the Sacred Valley.
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PERU | Wednesday, 17 May 2006 | Views [5712]
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 [2833]
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 | Monday, 8 May 2006 | Photo Gallery
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PERU | Wednesday, 26 Apr 2006 | Photo Gallery
Arequipa and Colca Canyon
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PERU | Wednesday, 26 Apr 2006 | Views [1231]
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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