PERU | Saturday, 1 Apr 2006 | Views [1093]
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 [939]
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 | Sunday, 26 Feb 2006 | Photo Gallery
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ECUADOR | Thursday, 23 Feb 2006 | Views [2736] | 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 [1082]
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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ECUADOR | Monday, 30 Jan 2006 | Photo Gallery
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COLOMBIA | Monday, 30 Jan 2006 | Photo Gallery
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COLOMBIA | Tuesday, 10 Jan 2006 | Views [2069] | 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 [1379] | Comments [3]
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 [911]
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 [1177] | 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 [2137]
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 [1028]
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 [814]
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 [1454]
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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BELIZE | Saturday, 24 Sep 2005 | Views [923]
We have spent the last ten days in Belize - a small country of little over a quarter of a million people. (If you collected stamps as a kid then Belize is what used to be British Honduras.) Belizeans are a diverse mix of the descendants of English eighteenth ... Read more >
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MEXICO | Friday, 9 Sep 2005 | Views [660]
In the last week or so we have crossed the peninsular of Yucatn visiting some of the great Mayan sites. The first was Uxmal, which was very atmospheric out in the forest, with very few visitors and inhabited by large Iguanas. The second was Chichen Itaz, ... Read more >
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MEXICO | Wednesday, 31 Aug 2005 | Views [764]
The last week and a half has been a pretty busy one with a lot of traveling. We first went down to the small town of Comitan, which is not far from the Guatemalan border. This was to visit an area of lakes which sit right on the frontier, most of them ... Read more >
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MEXICO | Sunday, 21 Aug 2005 | Views [740]
We are now in the southern state of Chiapas. In the state capital, Tuxtla, we visted the superb open zoo which has all the species that live in Chiapas, the most biologically diverse state in Mexico. Highlights were the jaguars and pumas, floppy-nosed ... Read more >
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MEXICO | Friday, 12 Aug 2005 | Views [1325]
As mentioned in the last entry, we enjoyed our time in the Sierra Norte so much we went back for more. This time we walked between the villages which took us in some very remote parts of the mountains. Even though the routes are the traditional pathways ... Read more >
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MEXICO | Tuesday, 2 Aug 2005 | Views [1034]
We are now in Oaxaca (pronounced O wack ah) a wonderful colonial town about six hours from Mexico City. For the first time in Mexico we have arrived in tourist land, there are hundreds of tourists, mainly from Europe, wandering around clutching their ... Read more >
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MEXICO | Monday, 25 Jul 2005 | Views [908]
We are in the megacity of Mexico City: twenty million people and growing every day. This was the heart of the Aztec empire overthrown by the Spanish conquistadors. It is busy and noisy but not as crowded and smoggy as we had expected. Giant murals by ... Read more >
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MEXICO | Thursday, 14 Jul 2005 | Views [704]
Over the last week weve been travelling between the towns founded by the Spanish, nearly all based where the silver mines were. They all have some beautiful buildings built in the Spanish style, usually centered around plant and flower filled courtyards.... Read more >
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MEXICO | Thursday, 7 Jul 2005 | Views [1312]
At the beginning of last week we crossed the border into Mexico, at Tijuana, and then spent a couple of days on the coast of the Baha Peninsula, sampling Mexican food and trying out our Spanish. We then headed down the Pacific coast, staying at Guaymas ... Read more >
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