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Paul Meigh Joined: January 31st 2008
Logged in: August 17th 2010
Logged in: August 17th 2010
Travel Blog Posts
Summit of Mera Peak
coming soon............lots more photos! so much to say about this expedition but no time to write it just now..... 21 days of arduous trekking and mountaineering ... read more
Before the hang glide
just a very brief diary for now, trying to catch up! Saturday 22nd Mar - Day 60 Dropped Andy off at the airport then went Hang gliding off the remarakables moutain range just outside of Queenstown. Sunday 23rd Mar - Day 61 More luge runs (very addictive) and a game of frisbee golf. Drove to Wanaka. booked up a sky dive, ahhhhhh! Monday 24th Mar - Day 62 Drive to Franz Josef. 12000ft Sky dive! 45 seconds freefall. awesome!... read more
Mt Cook
just a very brief diary for now, trying to catch up! Monday 17th Mar - Day 55 Walks in Mt Cook national park. drive to Te Anua. Tuesday 18th Mar - Day 56 sea kayaking on Milford Sound. Wednesday 19th Mar - Day 57 drive to Queenstown. Thursday 20th Mar - Day 58 River surfing. Friday 21st Mar - Day 59 Skyline gondola and 10 luge runs.... read more
Abel Tasman
just a very brief diary for now, trying to catch up! Monday 10th Mar - Day 48 Sea kayaking Abel Tasman national park with overnight stay on a boat. tuesday 11th Mar - Day 49 Sea kayaking Abel Tasman national park. Long drive to Kaikoura. Wednesday 12th Mar - Day 50 A lazy day in Kaikoura but a 10k run. Thursday 13th Mar - Day 51 Adam and Andy went Whale watching to see the sperm whales. Friday 14th Mar - Day 52 Adam and I went swimming with a pod of 300 wild dusky dolphins. Drive to Christchurch. Saturday 15th Mar - Day 53 In Christchurch. Went to see a New Zealand versus South Africa super 14 rugby game with Lauren (friend from home) Sunday 16th Mar - Day 54 Drive to Mt Cook national ... read more
Piha
just a very brief diary for now, trying to catch up! Saturday 1st Mar - Day 39 ..... Sunday 2nd Mar - Day 40 Up very early to meet Adam at the airport at 5.50am. Picked up our hire car, had a walk around Auckland then went to some beaches. Mon 3rd Mar - Day 41 Surfing at Piha. Huge waves!! Tuesday 4th Mar - Day 42 Surfing at Raglan. Andy arrived at midnight, after getting a free boot clean at the airport bio security! Wednesday 5th Mar - Day 43 Went up the Auckland skytower in the morning, which is the highest tower in all of the southern hemisphere. Then drove to rotorua, which is where most of the volcanic action is. Thursday 6th Mar - Day 44 Volcanic guysers and Maori cultural experience including ... read more
Ninety Mile Beach Sunset
Friday 22nd Feb - Day 31 Departed La Paz for NZ via Chile. Saturday 23rd Feb - Day 32 Came and went in a flash (crossed the international date line) Sunday 24th Feb - Day 33 Arrive Auckland. Monday 25th Feb - Day 34 to Friday 29th Feb - Day 38 On a 5 Day surfing tour of northland (the area north of Auckland) with New Zealand surf tours. The surf was really good at ninety mile beach which was the best break so we didn't end up doing much touring but lots of surfing, about 3 hours in the morning and 3 in the afternoon. A really chilled out week and finally the tan kicked in, after 4 weeks in the Andes I was feeling pretty white! On Friday I went to see a reggae ... read more
Huayna Potosi.
Tuesday 19th Feb - Day 28 During the tour a number of us talked about doing some ice climbing in the cordillera real; the mountains around La Paz in Bolivia. As we looked around the various tour operators we found it would cost around $80 to spend a day up on a glacier but for a ridiculously cheap $100 (USD) we could do a 3 day expedition to attempt a climb of Huayna Potosi. The three day expedition only suited myself and Mick, (I just had enough time left after the tour), so we signed up for it. When I got back to La Paz after visiting the salt flats on Monday night we had a kitting out session for all the gear and met our guide, Miguel. Between booking up the expedition and the first ... read more
Death Road
Monday 11th Feb - Day 20 Drove to La Paz, the capital of Bolivia and the highest capital city in the world. We had to cross the border from Peru which was an unusual experience and not one I would've liked to have done without our guide Mike to look after us. As soon as we stepped out of the bus before the corssing some decisively shadding looking individuals were being a bit too friendly trying to offer us help who we were told to ignore, then we had to go into three different random buildings with absolutely no signs on them where we got our passports stamped and some immigration slips. After this we changed our currency and crossed the border over a bridge where we had to enter another building for more stamps. Throughout ... read more
Floating Uros Islands
Wednesday 6th Feb - Day 15 Kris and myself went white water rafting today, there were only the two of us on the raft and the guide so we had to work our butts off to stay in the right part of the river, very exhilarating and very hard work at this altitude. It was a grade 4+. We got back to Cusco in the evening for big night out to celebrate Glenns birthday. Thursday 7th Feb - Day 16 Free day in Cusco exploring the city Friday 8th Feb - Day 17 A very long drive to Puno, about 11 hours or so. There were carnival celebrations on all through the night and a huge foam fight that we joined in on. Saturday 9th Feb - Day 18 We headed out to lake titicaca, the ... read more
Machu Picchu 1
Tuesday 5th Feb - Day 14 Machu Picchu day! Up at 4.30am to get to Machu Picchu before the crowds. Had a 2 hour tour of the ruins and then scambled up HuaynaPicchu to get fantastic view of the site. After this time was running out so I had to run to the Inca bridge (the incans destroyed the bridge to protect Machu Pichhu) and the sun gate. When the spaniards conquered the incans in about 1537 they didn´t find Machu Picchu, it lay undiscovered until 1911. I´ve seen so many photos of this site but it was still amazing to go there. ... read more
