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Travelbug Some people say I´m crazy, but what´s crazy?? I guess I am not the typical Backpacker as far as what I do and what I don´t do when I travel is concerned. The big thing for me is nature AND this trip is not only to see what´s around me but to see what´s inside me as well (adds an interesting note to it:-).

Thing is also that I´m one of those travellers that find it really hard to sit INSIDE a bus looking out. I just have to be smack bang in the middle of all the beautiful places on this amazing planet. Visiting cities is easy. But how visit nature? How get around if not in a bus or a car? Well my answer to that is - either cycle or walk. So this time I left my bike at home and called this trip "The big hike".

I do like going into the mountains for weeks on end, off the beaten track is always great and sometimes I even like to not see a soul for days, but it´s also always really good to come back to civilisation, have real supermarkets that sell all my favorite food and spoil myself in a neat restaurant and get stuffed to the rim!

By the way, if you want to view ALL pictures (there are more than 4!!!) of a particular entry you just need to double-click on one of the pic's and the entire album will open up (Seems some of you didn't figure it out:-))

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By ChristinaTravelbug
October 22nd 2008
Reunited! Europe » Netherlands
The Star of the trip - my old lady! Finally reunited!
The Star of the trip - my old lady! Finally reunited!
She's probably about 14 years and a few thousand km's old now but holding up quite well
(Aug 08) There's much to say about Holland, but the one thing that strikes me as THE thing to do here is f i e t s e n (dutch for cycling) ! Imagine, a land full of dedicated bike paths, a land were anyone on two man-powered wheels is king and where everyone else is in the pitiful position of severe disadvantage... Well, apart from the fact that the wind doesn't bother the guy on a motorbike leave alone the rain and the guy in the car... and yes, guess what - my little cycle adventure in the kingdom of [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 10th 2008 | 80 Views | [diary=321700]

What a bike path
Ijsselmeer
Sunset at the Ijsselmeer

(This is a little older - Think Feb 08 - sorry that it's taken me soooo long...) When I looked at the map of the Big Island a few weeks before I flew across it kinda hit me straight away - this piece of land is made for cycling. It'd been a while (like 6 years or so) that I had packed my panniers and attached them to a two-wheeler. But something inside me was yearning for a little bit of a change. Initially I was going to do the hiking thing - two above 4000m a.s.l. mountains on like 10 [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 20th 2008 | 79 Views | [diary=322062]

Forest in Waipi'o Valley
Wild Coast on the Big Island
Some picturesque valley on Kaua'i

(April 06) I guess the definition of paradise is a rather subjective thing. To me paradise could be a million different things but that place that I had the pleasure to discover down in the very last corner of Cajon del Maipo, a Canyon close to Santiago, definately belongs to that bunch. And knowing that I only detected it by pure chance (or some heavenly guidance:-)) makes it even more special. (Couldn't believe that hardly anyone in Santiago seems to know it - Anthony, bl....GO THERE SOON before someone sends you back to OZ:-)!!!). I had 4 days to go before [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 23rd 2006 | 387 Views | [diary=90453]

The colours of Cajon del Maipo
Laguna El Morado
The Laguna again

(Nov 07) Funny that some people don't even seem to know that there's reasonably high mountains in South Africa; when the guy next to me on the plane to Durban (a local "Capy") asked me what I was up to and I replied "hiking" he frowned, raised his one eyebrow and went "ri-i-ight"..."hmmmm...." with this sort of expressionless face and a big questionmark on his forehead. Soon thereafter, countless locals gave their well meant advice that I couldn't/shouldn't go backcountry - and definately not by myself! Well, after all I had come to the "'Berg" ONLY to go hiking, it did [View Full Entry]

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Published: January 6th 2008 | 184 Views | [diary=222122]

With a gorgeous view along the escarpment
The first few meters up into the "Berg"
Waterfall

View of Villarrica
View of Villarrica
seen while descending
(April 06) DEUTSCH WEITER UNTEN Sometime in April around Pucon: All I hear is "have you climbed it yet?", "Did you make it?", "I´m dead and we didn´t see a thing"....what they are talking about is Villarrica, a still active Volcano near Pucón, the most climbed Moutain in Chile. People come here ONLY to get on top of that thing and the guides (it is not allowed anymore to go without) charge an arm and a leg for it (because they can). Even without knowing that you can´t currently see the lava (appearantly the glowing lava is only to be seen [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 6th 2006 | 267 Views | [diary=53801]

View from the top of Quetrupillán
View from the top along the crater rim
The Sumit (left) and the view from there

(December 07) The best story really is how this came about. The Otter Trail is so bl**** popular that there is no way of getting a spot (only 12 people allowed on the track each day) unless you book it ONE YEAR in advance. Yes, that's right! When I first heard about the Otter Trail I knew that I just HAD to do it. But that was about 2 months before I left for South Africa (and I was pretty sure I wasn't going to stay for 10 months). So when about 3 weeks before I was due to fly back [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 13th 2008 | 99 Views | [diary=234227]

....beautiful views...
...waterfalls...
...rivers....

Los Torres - this is IT!
Los Torres - this is IT!
Los Torres on Day 1 (we HAD to go up, couldn´t resist, even though we knew we´d go the next morning AGAIN)
(February 06) Hier ist ein Bericht AUSSCHLIESSLICH fuer meine Deutschen Freunde, den ich jetzt veroeffentlichen werde, auch ohne englische Version (ENGLISH VERSION STILL TO COME, SORRY...). Hallo meine Lieben, ich weiss, ich bin einige Wochen oder sogar Monate im Verzug mit meinen Berichten, also fang ich jetzt einfach mal mehr oder weniger beim Anfang an. Ich habe mich mittlerweile von fast 60 bis ungefaehr 41 grad suedlicher Breite "hochgeschlagen". Meine Entscheidung, Patagonien von Sueden as zu erkunden, wurde mit schmerzenden Hueften und Ruecken reich belohnt. Parque Nacional To [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 12th 2006 | 396 Views | [diary=51949]

Los Torres - in the morning!
Campamento Lago Dickson
Grey Glacier from the Camp

In the woods - engulfed by thick fog
In the woods - engulfed by thick fog
of Parque Nacional Puyehue
(April 06) Considering that I wasn´t going to do this trek for another few weeks I can only say: GOOD ON ME that I postponed the other stuff, packed up and set off in a matter of half an hour that day. I hopped on a bus towards Osorno and asked to get off et Fundo El Caulle, the trailhead to "Los Baños", a series of natural hotsprings in an unwordly setting (and that for FREE!) PLUS a beautiful mountain to climb right next to it. When we came down from the Pass near the Argentinean - Chilean Border I saw [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 10th 2006 | 303 Views | [diary=52235]

El Refugio
The Ascent
On the moon

(April 06) At some stage I thought I wasn´t going to survive for much longer with those few words of Spanish that I could speak. With almost no ability to hold a conversation for longer than 30 seconds (because people either walk away or they immediately switch to English) I decided to invest in some private lessons. That made me stay put in Bariloche for a while. Not a bad place to spend some time. On one of the weekends during my stay in Bariloche I decided to check out that Track to Refugio Otto Meiling by Monte Tronador that everybody [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 12th 2006 | 327 Views | [diary=52392]

View to the north from Cerro Otto
Monto Tronador
View of Pampa Linda

By ChristinaTravelbug
September 24th 2008
Holy Cow! Asia » India » Himachal Pradesh » Manali
(September 05) DEUTSCHE VERSION WEITER UNTEN / GERMAN FURTHER DOWN India....how do I even start to describe this country? Well, India....to sum it up and make it short.....is just an absolutely mad place like you've never seen before. Cows, pedestrians, cycles, rikschas, cars, busses, motorbikes and dogs share Old Delhi's streets, no one cares about driving according to the rules (rules???). The Indians drive where there's space, and if it's on the sidewalk, so be it. Everyone that's got a horn blows it (until the cows come home! haha...). Incredible noise, but heaps of fun. In India they [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 11th 2006 | 346 Views | [diary=73469]

At the markets in Delhi
"Cow race" in the city
a cow's and dog's life in Delhi



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