http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Amylia/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Amylia en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:27:28 +0000 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:27:28 +0000 For travel journal click here We stayed on the island of Ambergris Caye in a remote area 3 to 4 miles north of San Pedro. Most of these photos are of Lamanai the ruins of the former Maya city which translates to Submerged Crocodile which is in the Orange Walk District in northern Belize. http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Belize/Belize-Barrier-Reef/Ambergris-Caye/blog-447405.html For travel journal click here To view a photo in a larger size please click on it. http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Flores-Tikal/blog-444561.html Aruba is an island which is part of the West Indies. It is 20 miles long and 6 miles wide has 101K inhabitants and is located 17 miles from Venuzuela and 40 from Colombia. Aruba is an autonomous state within the Netherlands under Dutch administration and support. An oil refinery keeps the economy strong and Aruba is the world's largest exporter of aloe once covered 23rds of the island. http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Aruba/Oranjestad/blog-364244.html Chichen Itza is a preColumbian city built by the Mayas. Its name means at the mouth of the well of the itza. The earliest artifacts date from 1250 AD. It's not known why it was abandoned around 1300 AD left silent in the Yucatan Jungle. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucat%E1n/Chich%E9n-Itz%E1/blog-364180.html This trip started in the south visiting cousin David and from there I flew to Delhi and toured the Golden Triangle section of India and ended in Varanasi along the Ganges. Travel journal http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Jodhpur/blog-259007.html Mom Aunt Sheila and I enjoyed a wonderful 3 week romp through England Ireland Scotland and Wales they and their siblings are half Scottish and half Irish. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/blog-258759.html March of 2001 spent a few weeks in Israel and 2 of the 3 Palestinian territories the Golan Heights and the West Bank. http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/blog-235365.html VieuxQuebec Old Town is a U.N.E.S.CO. world heritage site. Quebec City is the only North American fortified city north of Mexico whose walls still exist. Kebec is the Algonquin aboriginal NE Canadians word for where the river narrows. French explorer Jacques Cartier built a fort here in 1535 and then returned to France. Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608 http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Quebec-City/blog-146260.html EgyptAfrica Egypt May 1st 2007Sacred sites and sacred science tourHere is the link to the online travel journal I was sending via email http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/blog-167779.html From the Turkish resort community of Kusadasi I rode a ferry to the Greek island of Samos. From Samos I flew to Rhodes. From Rhodes I went to Mykonos from Mykonos to Santorini and from Santorini I flew to Athens where I romped around before flying home the following day. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Thessaly/Meteora/blog-62267.html Bali is 1 of the 18100 islands which comprise the country of Indonesia.I was in Bali for the Quest For Global Healing conference and spent some time exploring the island.Travel Journal http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/blog-62010.html Morocco Email journal is in this link http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/blog-61866.html Turkey September 2002 http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/blog-60752.html Peru won independence from Spain in 1824. Travelogue http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/Machu-Picchu/blog-59686.html Tonle' Sap largest lake in Southeast AsiaThese floating villages have a Catholic Church 65 of those who live on the lake are Vietnamese although a very small percentage of those in Cambodia as a whole are Vietnamese 3 floating school houses several floating stores floating pig cages etc... and despite not having any running water nor plumbing aprx 13rd of them had tv antennas they wat http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Angkor/blog-59669.html Ta Phrom Angkor Thom and Angkor WatTravel Journal http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Angkor/blog-59636.html Deciding that it was time to take a brief break from the corporate world and go do some good I volunteered at the Hand of Help a Romanian owned and ran orphanage. I went by myself and didn't know anyone there however 2 there were bilingual which helped me in communicating. The 122 children in the Botosoni orphanage where I stayed seemed amazingly well adjusted spirited comfortable and conf http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/blog-160556.html MontrealNorth America Canada Quebec Montreal By AmyliaI spent 4 days in Montreal exploring the city in which my Mom and 4 of her sisters were born. VilleMarie today's Montreal was founded in 1642 by French Catholic priests. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-146248.html