http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Anything-for-the-quiet-life/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Anything for the quiet life en-us Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:16:36 +0000 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:16:36 +0000 ahh bueno..Hace mucho tiempo mi email queda vacia. Me ovidastepues aqui estoy viviendo una vida muy tranquila.Espero que estes bien http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Central-Plateau/blog-320791.html This entery is just some photos that I took that didn't make it into any other of my Canadian blogs.And with this I end my blogs from Canada. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-130625.html Banff attracts weird people.Paul told me that. I gather he should know after living here for 30 years.There is me obviously and Tom and Betty with her rat of a dog Sam she herself calls it Rat the guy who stares at Pokies belly and a raft of others. And the raft of others all want to work at our store.Jason was fired a while back so Management put up the help wanted sign. A woman walked in http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff/blog-122021.html Two months since my last blog and I am still a little short on subject matter.Things have been fairly consistent for the last 2 months consistently cold consistently working and consistently unsure as to where I'm going next.So points to mention although some seem so long ago areJorge and Mandy visited Banff on their Honeymoon. Sarah and I took them on a little tour around Banff up to Lak http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff/blog-106600.html Espanol abajo...quizas.......There's no real point to this blog other than to show you some photos from October.As I predicted in my last blog that all I'd be doing is working and climbing mountains this is sadly all I have done.I can't fit the photos from work in this blog entry so I'll do another blog for them soon.Travelblog now cuts any photos over a 21 limit and shoves them onto another page http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-94699.html Espanol malo abajo......................Banff is what it is. You can't knock it because it started that way and has never been anything different. And as it knows it it doesn't suffer that pretentiousness that prevades the air up in Jasper.Banff is a tourist town.It all started way back in 1883 when three prospectors stumbled on to a warm stream that led into a hole. One of them William McCarde http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff/blog-90696.html Theres 3 million people in Buenos Aires. Now thats 3 million stories..and theres bound to be some good ones in all that.But sadly this temporary inhabitant hasnt got one of them....In the city of Tango and passion nothing of any interest has happened at all. Just a lot of walking and not a lot else.So I posted some photos I have taken during my walking...Buenos Aires this is you as far as http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-36741.html Cant afford to fly so I took a bus for 17 hours up to Rurrenabaue. I bused up with Flota Vaca Diez. The seat I booked no 28 window was broken. It would not lock into place in any posistion and would recline at every bump. Normally a broken seat is a bad thing except on this trip it acted like a secondary shock absorber and was just the ticket when bussing the worlds most dangerous road wh http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Beni-Department/Rurrenabaque/blog-28690.html The main thing the tourists do here in Arequipa is go to Colca caynon to see the Condors so I went to Cotahasi. Cotahuasi is the deepest caynon in the world and bigger than the Grand Caynon in the States. It is about 12 hours in a bus twice the distance to Colca caynon and for that reason a whole lot less visited.And after blowing my spare change on climbing Misti I decieded a few days free c http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Arequipa/Arequipa/blog-27457.html Now I diffently couldnt leave Bolivia with running around in the Land of Butch Cassidy and good old Sundance.So I arrived in Tupiza with the plan to follow there last few fateful days.Tupiza is the site of the bank they intended to rob. Now it is just a sleepy little town with tourists going to the salar or here for what I am. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/Tupiza/blog-29839.html Unfortunatley with this wedding in Chile in a few weeks I have run myself short of time. But I couldnt leave Bolivia without seeing Sucre.Sucre is probably the prettiest city in Bolivia. I hear it is very much like Santa Cruz but unfortunately I have had to give that a miss too. It is the town centre anyway is very colonial and still painted its orginal white. It is very tranqual after La Paz http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Chuquisaca-Department/Sucre/blog-29838.html The first time I came to Puno I decieded that I did not want to see Los Uros. Arent they just a bunch of floating tourist shops noBut this time however I had a morning to kill before I caught a collectivo to the boader.So I thought I would drift out there and think of it as a trip to a museo complete with actors.The fist Isla we visited was the most interesting as the local gave us the roo http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Puno/blog-28688.html Misti was a bit of a challenge but but I knocked her off.The last 3 hours of walking was a bit of a strugle when I suddenly developed a bit a stomach ache. Every few minutes I felt like I wanted to shoot something out from one end or the other but could not work out which. So it was plod plod plod... stop wait while my stomach calmed itself down....plod plodplod. I have never walked so slo http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Arequipa/blog-26833.html I took a bus from Cusco to Nasca arriving in Nasca in the wee hours. It is such a lovely 12 hout bus trip through canyons deserts and mountains that I say it is much better to do the trip during daylight hours than to take the overnight bus as so many seem to do. Go overnight youll only save 15 sol but miss so many beautiful vistas.A few hours after arriving in Nasca I took a small plane to http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Arequipa/blog-26831.html I must say I was a little dissapointed with the walk to Machu Picchu. I had expected a four day trek but in fact it was a little more than a short walk. Everyone had told me it is hard and the second day very tough as it passes over 4500 meters and so I had expected a bit of a mission I had even fobed off my sleeping bag and mattress off to a porter such was the difficulty I had been expecting http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-26096.html I arrived in Cusco some eight odd days ago and am awaiting for the end of the month when I start the treck to Machu Piccu.I spent half of the second day looking for a cheap hostel after I had a bit of an augument with the owner of the one I was originaly staying in over the price of the room. When I was at the bus station he told me it was 15 sol a night but when I got the taxi there suddenly i http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/Cusco/blog-26085.html I bought a first class ticket out of La Paz as I was in such a hurry to leave. It was a lovely bus ride to Copacabana with a large assortment of retired people on tour who are generally the only people who travel first class through some lovely country side. Copacabana is pretty tranquil but very touristy. It really has only one attraction the Isla de Sol the birthplace of the Incas. Well http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Copacabana/blog-24580.html arrgh La Paz. What can I say about this placeWell not a whole lot of good actually. Most countries make landfills out of valleys but Bolivia sticks its unoficial capital in one. But maybe thats the best way to describe La Paz a landfill.Its really a collection of houses perched on the sides of the valley which are bland unfinished brick crammed together exactly like the favalas in R http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/La-Paz/blog-23417.html The German the English couple and I arrived in Potosi at 2 in the morning after a bus trip that rattled my daggs for 7 straight hours. By golly it was certainly bumpyThen some friendly local told us out hotel was only three blocks up the hill from where we were so we decided against a taxi and started walking. Now this is with my 30kg pack on up hill at 4200 meters above sea level. After 3 http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/Potosi/blog-23089.html Well I was going to take the train to Bolivia to Uyuni as it was something a little different to what every one else was doing but everyone kept on recommending to go via the Salar so I gave in and followed the pack.And I am quite glad I did.I had heard it was cheaper to go to Bolivia and organize a trip from there but now only Bolivian companies work the route so its the same either way. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/Potosi/blog-22412.html