Tonto, Chico and Sushi South America » Bolivia » La Paz » La Paz By Elmo Abbey May 13th 2007 Abbey Elliott La Paz is pretty nice for a big city in these parts. certainly not as scary as we had been warned. warm in the day but cold in the evenings w [View Full Entry]

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Rock me on the Water South America » Bolivia » Isla del Sol By Elmo Abbey May 12th 2007 Abbey ElliottWere now in Bolivia living the high life without 2 pikey boys following us round! hahaaha only joking really, miss you boys!!! Our first port of call was Copacabana on Lake Titicaca where we stayed in a nice hotel ov [View Full Entry]

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So we thought enough of relaxing in Arequipa lets do a hike!!! We had left Tom and Russ at the bus station the sad end of Travel Team Tummy Trouble. Now it was the big A and E again!! We spent a full day walking up and down the Canyon choosing the hottest point of the day for the latter, not a good idea, it was so hot hot hot!!! [View Full Entry]

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Harry Cooper South America » Peru » Arequipa By Elmo Abbey May 1st 2007 Abbey Elliott What a lovely climate, old Arequipa. We spent probably to long here!!! it might have had something to do with the kebabs and garlic sauce and the fact it was so chilled out. A ledgendary night was had by Abbey, Els and Tom at Zoom and Dadyo' [View Full Entry]

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Machu Pichu can work out pretty expensive if you take the tourist train or go on the inca trail hike. we decided to take the long way round or back route and just pay the entrance fee. this involved some special traveling antics of which i will describe here. MP is pretty remote so the first step was to take a 6 hour bus overnight on an unpaved road prone to avalanches. I think we managed 1 minute 39 seconds sleep. Arriving in a dusty village at 3:20 am the next step is to wait for a small van to [View Full Entry]

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Nit wear South America » Peru » Cusco By Elmo Abbey April 21st 2007 Abbey ElliottCusco...sort of a gringo capital in SA. Every gringo and his ethnic clothing spends sometime here. Ells has a jumper to rival any in puttnams wardrobe, he is bringing sexy back. its pretty relaxed and has pie and mash and fried breakfasts. yum. We sta [View Full Entry]

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Lines South America » Peru » Nazca » Nazca Lines By Elmo Abbey April 18th 2007 Abbey ElliottOut in the peruvian desert are some pretty crazy lines made by some nice people. the best way to see them is from the air so that is what the travel team tummy tr [View Full Entry]

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You need some thermal pants South America » Peru » Cordillera Blanca By Elmo Abbey April 16th 2007 Abbey Elliott Set amongst the cordillera blanca andes mountains Hauraz was a picturesque base for a hike into the hills. We hired a guide to take us up a river valley and then up to see glaciers, a lake and a glacial vall [View Full Entry]

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Amazing mud South America » Peru » Trujillo » Chan Chan By Elmo Abbey April 13th 2007 Abbey ElliottHi again I´m trying to keep this blog up to date. We went to Chan Chan an incredible mud built city infact the largest Pre-Columbian city in South [View Full Entry]

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We all met up South America » Peru » Chiclayo By Elmo Abbey April 11th 2007 Abbey ElliottThey made it!!!!! Tom and Russ, well done boys they travel for 51 hours on coaches, both seem to have a bit of jet lag. We have just been to see the 26 old mud pyramids in Tucume they cover over 200 ha. We really cool, but had to watc [View Full Entry]

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