Thanks for uploading! This is a particularly great picture as it helps to explain meanders, deposition, river ageing, ox bow lakes and floodplain all in one image
How did you find the accommodations at Dharamsala? Next time you visit Dharamsala or Mcleodganj, we would be happy to accomodate you at our small villa, Villa Paradiso.
Hey im from Cali and i dont look like a famingo!! I love reading your traveling blogs..but dont say things like : all the women in Cali...not all the woman in cali my friend go under the knife, that is like me saying "all white men have the campesino tan"
Very insightful ! Hi guys, thanks for the delightful read about your volunteering experience at Inti Wara Yassi. I am looking to volunteer with that organization as well but with pumas. However, it does give me a good idea regarding the situations with monkeys. I wonder if they'd let me work with pumas as I come as a small frame, 5"2 only!
from a Venezuelan: you are right I am Venezuelan born, I was raised mostly in Spain and the US and I have been living in the US for a very long time. I just came back from a vacation to Venezuela, I wanted my daughter, who is 19, to visit the family and Angel Falls.
Your description and the adjectives you use are 100% accurate. While in Caracas, even though my daughter and I were sheltered by our upper class family, we felt the energy, and we saw experienced the mentality. We went to Canaima. Once we got there, it was the most extraordinary landscape I have ever seen (and I have been to places such as Bali and the Himalayas). The people in Canaima were very nice, but I speak Spanish with a Venezuelan accent and we stayed in cheap accomodations. When we got back to Ciudad Bolivar, it was horrible (and I have been to Calcutta!). All I know that, as much as I would like to go to Roraima, Los Andes, and Los Roques, I really don't know if I want to set foot in the country where I was born, again. There is not an iota of exageration in what you wrote. Unfortunate, but true. Thank God my family travels a lot and I get to see them elsewhere.
Tayrona?? The indigenous people you met on the Ciudad Perdida Trek are actually from the Kogi and Arsario ethnic groups. The Tayrona disappeared as a society around 1650. The four existing indigenous groups living in the Sierra Nevada all claim to descend from the Tayrona.
awesome Another awesome piece of work. I couldnt tell the story any better myself. Just a question though, would you "perhaps" have some more photos of the wrestling event and the rest of La Paz? I didnt bring my camera that day and would love some visual material. I've got a special mailaddress for photo mail purposes.
Please let me know.
I can't believe it's over! You guys had better be as entertaining when you get back as you have been at a distance. I'm going to miss reading this blog! xx
Miguel the barman "They had a pool and good coffee and a young barman called Miguel whose smile lit up the place."
Well, I guess if you had called him Miguel a couple of times, the smile could possibly have frozen. That is, unless you had a different barmen then I did. :P
(btw. Edwin is the name of the guy)
So bitter, and so close to the end of your trip! No connection at all there, I suppose...
Also, your compadre was wrong. Your UFO wasn't the North Star. The very bright star that you see first in the evening and last in the morning is Venus (aka The Morning Star/Evening Star). The North Star is neither very bright nor very remarkable. You should go back and correct that Spanish hiker. That'll learn 'im not to correct Jen!
Great description of traveling! You're right on the money with your description of traveling. I love how people go to, let's say Jamacia and never leave their hotels for a week and claim that they've "traveled Jamacia". Yikes. Happens more than you think... espeically with Americans.
Stop rubbing it in Will you two please stop having such a good time? It's rainy here, my train was cancelled, a conker fell on my head and the only wildlife I've seen today was a club-footed London pigeon. Can't tell you how envious I am - of your whole trip, but particularly this part. And well done for keeping up with the journal - you'll always have it to remember your trip (unless the site crashes and loses everything, of course...!) Keep it up, chollos - Mel xx
Will keep our eyes peeled for him... And, on he sports front you have to let us Brits wallow in our moment of Olympic sporting glory. Wish we could sort out our waste of space, overpaid footballers though.
Great Read! Look out in Equador! Hi Guys, thanks for the last instalment of the blog, it's a great read and brings heaps of memories flooding back... Wish we were still there, instead of listening to the Poms think they are good at sports!
Have fun in Equador, just look out for the one armed 4x4 driver at Cotapaxi that we took...
Aguas Callientes I remember being told off for calling that place a Sh*t Hole if I remember rightly. was something along the lines - just because it's not up to western standards you shouldn't describe it like that. Actually after careful consideration my statement still stands, it's a horible place
leeches how do leeches even get in an area? does something carry them there? did they hook on to a bird and drop off and land in the water? i have leeches in my pond! HELP i need answers!
Nice Wow, I didnt realize you guy were THIS funny ;-) Keep up the good work. I have to run now, the guys in the internet café are looking a bit weird at me. Probably cuz i´ve been laughing like hell for the last 20 minutes. And to be honest a 2 meter tall guy shitting himself from laughing does look kinda..... excentric.
Thanks for the feedback. Glad that you´re enjoying it. We did try to put in a route map a while back, but found that we´re following such a squiggly route that it didn´t really work.
After far too many years working we've both decided to take early retirement (well just for a year). The plan is to meander round the world from India through to Brazil and everywhere in between. We're pretty much free spirits on this trip and our only commitment is to visit our adopted pregnant elephant in northern India. We hear that she's very excited about our visit.... full info
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Thanks for uploading!
This is a particularly great picture as it helps to explain meanders, deposition, river ageing, ox bow lakes and floodplain all in one image