http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Juanes/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Juanes en-us Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:50:11 +0000 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:50:11 +0000 El parque nacional natural los nevados at 5130 metres to which i climbed. The second highest mountain range in colombia after the sierra nevada near the carribean coast.more words to follow but this is the most cold i have been in about 4 years since playing football on a windy saturday afternoon with hail...well its not all sun sea and sand in latin america. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Manizales/blog-138730.html Apologies currently unable to restore. If you have a backup please edit this entry and savepublish.There is a small possibility that this entry will be restored only small. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Huila-/VillaVieja/blog-144513.html words to be added later about my two days in the mountains in the Santander department of Colombia.. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/San-Gil/Barichara/blog-138409.html Daily trips to the beach coves around Santa Marta where you can explore and walk along the clifftops and maybe find israeli backpackers sunbathing nude. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-389350.html fotos from the two days at the real carnaval in latin america http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Barranquilla/blog-387362.html Visiting the national park in Santander close to Bucaramanga the city i can never pronounce correctly according to all my colombian friends apparently one of the deepest valleys in the world after Grand Canyon obviously. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santander/Bucaramanga/blog-381274.html Spent a few days visiting an old friend of mine here in the scorching heat of Huila. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Huila-/Neiva/blog-381256.html Back in venezuela for the first time in two years. It seems that comrade chavezhas been messing around with the local currency Bolivar and caused some kind of hyper inflation in the country. Things such as the price of a hotel bottle of water set meal already seem a lot more expensive compared to when the Bolivar had 000 after every two five ten and fifty. For example in the hottest of all to http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Zulian/Maracaibo/blog-371979.html one of final tourist visits in my favourite latin american country so far of Colombia deep in the south on the border with Ecuador in another apparent no go zone according to many from the Uk and the foreign office too. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Ipiales/blog-209893.html final set of pictures from the south west circuit which led me from San Pedro de Atacam in Northern Chile through to Uyuni and the salt flats there. The pictures show a variety of coloured lakes spectacular desert dunes and mountain landscape where I came across some of the clearest and purest skies here on the continent along with my time in the amazon area between colombia and brasil. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/blog-209768.html the last of my fotos from stunning south west Bolivia showing the hot geysers and mud flats and the pink coloured skies and lakes here. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/blog-209783.html more fotos larking around on the salt flats with my group including my two irish buddies one girl from new york two laid back germans and the native bolivian tour guide. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/Salar-de-Uyuni/blog-209761.html more words to be added later about the trip on the teleferica here in northern argentina where the spanish is more easier to understand than the capital city of Buenos Aires. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Salta/blog-194140.html more words to be added about my last long bus journey in latin america on my 11 month travels. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Pasto/blog-194109.html walking around the fresh air of the mountains around the bolivian holiday resort on the shores of Lake Titicaca. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Copacabana/blog-194056.html high mountain ruins the most famous in latin americanbspSouth America raquonbspPeru raquonbspMachu Picchu By JuanesJune 30th 2007Jason Burnettmore words but pictures are enough http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/Machu-Picchu/blog-176862.html my first time on a train after visiting 15 other countries... only using other forms of transport....how relaxing nbspSouth America raquonbspPeru raquonbspCuzco raquonbspTrain Journey to Machu Picchu By JuanesJune 29th 2007Jason Burnettthe relaxing four train ride up to the mountains and world famous ruins for a budget busting 93 US dollars return. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/blog-178128.html deep down underground with the real workers for tuppence a day breathing in toxic fumes and exloding dynamitenbspSouth America raquonbspBolivia By JuanesJune 22nd 2007Jason Burnettmore words about the fascinating and nauseating trip down the Bolivean mine in Potosi. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/blog-178144.html the biggest salt flats in the world nbspSouth America raquonbspBolivia raquonbspUyuni raquonbspSalar de Uyuni By JuanesJune 21st 2007Jason Burnettmore words about this four day trip in south west bolivia. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/Salar-de-Uyuni/blog-178135.html Desierto de Salvador DalinbspSouth America raquonbspBolivia raquonbspUyuni raquonbspSalar de Uyuni By JuanesJune 20th 2007Jason Burnettanothe day on the road. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/Salar-de-Uyuni/blog-178158.html