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Alistair Watters

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Five years on the road and still going. Travelblog is the site I started to keep my family and friends in touch with my journey, and make as many of my former co-workers as jealous as possible. I've updated the site from all four corners of the globe, and it's pretty much taken over my life now, that and diving.

I don't have any answers to any of the big questions, I don't really know what half of them are. I know that life isn't what you expect it to be.

I apologise for any inaccuracies in my blogs, I try my best - sometimes it isn't good enough - sometimes it is.

2002 - Winter - I brought a Round the World Ticket - After working in and around London for about 5 years I'd decided that there is more to life than the daily commute, the daily grind and life ticking away a weekend at a time.

2002 - Summer - Flight to San Francisco - It took until June for me to leave on my trip, injections, tying up loose ends and planning my trip had taken longer than I'd expected.

2002 - 2008 - Roaming the planet - I've been all over, places I never knew existed. Working via a laptop and the internet, and a bit of diving.

Camera Equipment - I've variously used Kodaks, Canons and Nikons over the last 6 years - my current combination is a Nikon D300 with 18mm-200mm lens and a Canon Ixus 850is with underwater housing.

Current location: Travelling, Argentina & Chile - up the spine of the Andes.


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Travelling from March to current date... I've tried to mark all the points I've been, but some are where I changed buses.


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Uspallarta is both the name of a small village and a remote pass between Mendoza and Santiago Chile. Travelling between Santiago and Mendoza was a joy, beautiful craggy mountains, twisting roads that double back on them selves over and over, looping up the mountain. After arriving in Mendoza - I headed back to the village - spent an afternoon on horseback, taking photos when I could convince the beast to steady enough. Uspallata and the surrounding mountains were considered enough of a double for the Tibetan Himalayas to film Seven Years in Tibet (1997) - in some of the bars there [View Full Entry]

Ali - Alistair Watters | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 12 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 167 words | [diary=274247] | 2008-05-08 20:06:33

Pampas Plains
Our Horses
Fields of ...

Sitting in a hostel common room in Bariloche, Argentina, I'm debating where to go next, south? into the increasing chill, north? a wine tour in Mendoza, east? to the coast where soon the whales will return, or west? into Chile across the Andes and to the small town of Pucón where an active Volcano can be climbed. So many options and unfortunately my time in South America is in it's final few weeks. I form a vague plan, head west, then north then east; Bariloche to Pucon, to Santiago, to Mendoza. Patagonia, Glaciers and Antarctica will have to wait - another [View Full Entry]

Ali - Alistair Watters | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 5 Comment(s) | 31 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 1015 words | [diary=271558] | 2008-04-30 18:16:11

Villarrica Volcano (2)
Villarrica Volcano (3)
Villarrica Volcano (4)

As the cold winds blow in from the south, the year continues it's cycle in the southern lands at latitude 41 degrees it's autumn. Bariloche is a chocolate box beauty and the gateway to Patagonia, famed for it's skiing and hiking, it's hills, mountains and lakes. Visiting a ski resort inspired my lust for snow, I've missed the mountains and skiing for too many years now. But - walking past so many closed ski outfits, bursting with the latest blades and boards and goggles - I remember it's autumn, pull my inadequate bargain basement fleece a little tighter and see if [View Full Entry]

Ali - Alistair Watters | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 7 Comment(s) | 28 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 332 words | [diary=270323] | 2008-04-27 01:10:13

Forest
Flame Trees
Dead Trees on the Ridge of Cerro Otto

Waterfall photos from Iguazu National Park, both the Brazilian and Argentinian sides. I took a second trip to Iguacu / Iguazu - the most spectacular waterfalls I have ever seen - the first trip was back in November - secretly - I wasn't happy with the photographs - with a new camera (Nikon D300) and it's first serious outing - I messed up the settings, left the ISO on the value I'd used for a night trip to the Itaipu dam. So a revisit was worth it - this time with a circular polarizing filter, a tripod and a lot more [View Full Entry]

Ali - Alistair Watters | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 6 Comment(s) | 16 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 106 words | [diary=260349] | 2008-03-27 16:00:06

Waterfalls- the Devils Throat
Waterfalls and Observation Tower
Waterfalls

Photos from the Iguaçu / Iguazu - parks and my days there. The birds are from the Iguacu bird park - and are fairly used to close contact with people - hence it's easy to get up close. The butterflies, cayman, kuati and new friends are from the Argentinian side of the falls. [View Full Entry]

Ali - Alistair Watters | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 13 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 53 words | [diary=260357] | 2008-04-05 02:54:36

Toucan
Red Macaw
Coi coi Heron

Bonito is experiencing an Eco-tourism boom, in the south of Matto Grosso do Sul - it has an extraordinary diversity of natural wonders, in a relatively compact area. Blessed with caves, waterfalls, crystal clear rivers, forested hills all within a 50km radius - a very small distance in Brazilian terms - Bonito is riding the eco-tourism wave very well. I travelled directly from a few days in the wet-lands of the Pantanal to the Bonito Eco-tourism Hostel - the only Hostel (HI affiliated) in the area. My aims - rappel and then dive the abyss, snorkel in the crystal clear "Rio [View Full Entry]

Ali - Alistair Watters | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 7 Comment(s) | 38 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 1061 words | [diary=258306] | 2008-03-21 14:31:12

Blue and Yellow Macaw
Cave of the Blue Lagoon
Butterflies

By Ali
March 12th 2008

Pantanal

 South America » Brazil » Pantanal
Picture a flat flooded landscape, strange pig-like, pig-sized rodents grazing on the short grassy islands, beautiful gaudy macaws glide above cawing noisily, cows wallowing neck deep in tea coloured water. Sunsets that reflect golden hues in every direction, a world you could invert and almost see the same. I ride a stocky pantanal horse, a mongrel breed that descended from those strong enough to survive the extremes of the world's largest wetland. The sunset envelopes and encloses me - the silhouettes of my amigos a few hundred yards ahead - we head back towards the farm come pousada (guest house) that [View Full Entry]

Ali - Alistair Watters | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 36 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 403 words | [diary=259240] | 2008-04-28 22:26:24

Red and Blue Macaw
Lamb and Ewe
Vacarista - Cowboy

Terry Gilliam must have been inspired to name his 1985 movie "Brazil" - after seeing this utopian view of the future from 1960. "Fifty years of progress in five" moving the capital from Rio de Janeiro to a plateau in the undeveloped interior. President Juscelino Kubitschek, Architect Oscar Niemeyer, urban planner Lucio Costa and landscape architect Burle Marx - undertook this momentous feat - designing a city with a layout like a aeroplane - the central section containing all the governmental and civic buildings, the two wings the residential and military areas. The city was planned on a vast scale, it's [View Full Entry]

Ali - Alistair Watters | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 18 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 720 words | [diary=257208] | 2008-03-18 03:35:57

Brasilia - UFO
Brasilia - Big Brazilian Flag
Brasilia

Antonio Francisco Lisboa (Alejandinho) 1738-1814 (76) Son Portuguese master architect Manuel Francisco Lisboa and an un-named slave, architect, sculptor and cripple. the hamlet sprawls on the hunchbacks of the hills, the obedient pastoral flock go to the churches: that of Camo - which is all of stone the Mother Church - which is all of gold There can be no one who doubts that Brazil today is the best and most useful conquest, both for the treasury as well as for the public god, from so many others on which the kingdom may count attending to the great amounts which leave [View Full Entry]

Ali - Alistair Watters | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 26 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 137 words | [diary=257204] | 2008-03-18 03:32:56

Ouro Preto
Ouro Preto - angel
Ouro Preto - waiting

An hour and a half away from Paraty the small relatively undeveloped beaches of Trindade can be found. A few beach bars and restaurants line a hundred meters of two of the main beaches - which are both about 1km long. The beaches have good surf - and are popular with surfers - obviously. There are small trails that wind through the forest which take you to waterfalls and pools. A lovely way to spend a day. [View Full Entry]

Ali - Alistair Watters | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 13 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 77 words | [diary=257202] | 2008-03-18 03:22:51

Horses
Flowers
Waterfalls



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