KazzaK - Karoline

Travelling around the world, first went to India for a big culture shock and some interesting sights and smells. After some yoga course in India we hit China for some Kung Fu and old world history.

Did the nature side in Oz swimming with whale sharks, some treks in Karijini and diving on the Great Barrier. Also have partied our way from Melbourne and down the East Coast to be ready for Christmas and New Year's in Sydney.

Became very sporty in New Zealand new fave hobbies are now zorbing and skydiving, we shall see what South America brings along with the Inca Trail and Carnival!!

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By KazzaK
February 10th 2007

Hammocks and Blackouts South America » Colombia » Santa Marta

Nothing like lying back in your hammock reading your book while overlooking the night lights of the small fishing village Taganga, and then a complete electricity blackout. The four of us just rocked back and forth, helped by the strong winds and had some sporadic conversation, everything is understated in Techos Azures (where we are staying), nothing too stressful, our main worry is getting a nice hammock or space on the beach to see the sunset! I fell asleep in my hammock but as wake up was nearly falling out I decided to hit my bed instead. Taganga is beautiful and [View Full Entry]

By KazzaK
February 3rd 2007

Lack of communication... South America » Bolivia » La Paz Department » Yungas Road

So there has been a dearth of communication.....the main reason being that Teresa fell on Death Road and had to be flown home, that was after five days of hospital in Coroico and hiding the fact that anything was wrong from the duine in Ireland. So between pretending that nothing was wrong on gmail chat, when people "jokingly" asked if we had killed her, impersonating her on gmail chat (that thing should be banned, totally invasive!), ringing the insurance dickheads and trekking back up that bleeding road to Coroico to see Teresa in hospital, there was not much time to be [View Full Entry]

By KazzaK
January 18th 2007

They hate us.... South America » Bolivia » Potosí Department » Potosi

You have never seen filth like it - we crawled out of those mines literally black. After cleaning ourselves, we had a lovely dinner in Potosi, after braving the hailstones to make it there! About $20 for six people.... We then got the taxi to the bus station, looking forward to our cama bus. Made it downstairs to the bus, only to be told we had to hand our bags in upstairs where they were then lowered down to the bus. Fine, grand, even after an all day mine mission, and severe altitude we ran back upstairs, put in the bags [View Full Entry]

By KazzaK
January 18th 2007

Another world.... South America » Bolivia » Potosí Department » Potosi

On recommendation we booked our Mines Tour with Koala Tours. To be fair our disastrous journeys seem to precede fantastic tours, Efra our guide proved to be highly, highly entertaining (including replying to Irene when she had a big head, "small brain", or telling me I could be Monica Lewinsky!) and knowledgeable (which included telling us Potosi miners had no hair on their bodies so Eoin would have all the women if he went out showing his shirt hair!). This is while we are dressing ourselves up as miners, complete with hard hats and lamps! We then went to the miners [View Full Entry]

By KazzaK
January 18th 2007

Anything worth doing... South America » Bolivia » Potosí Department » Potosi

It seems anything worth doing in Bolivia involves a mission and a half! Lucky enough to secure the last three seats at the back on a local (know what that means) bus out of Uyuni to Potosi, we thought we had it made. That was until a man, the size of a seat and a half sat beside Irene. Not that he seemed overjoyed to be sitting beside her, but made it a point to regularly move over on top of her during the night - bearing in mind that he took up half of her seat in the first place, [View Full Entry]

By KazzaK
January 17th 2007

Worth every minute of the journey South America » Bolivia » Potosí Department » Salar de Uyuni

Salar de Uyuni is one of the most amazing, awesome and spectacular scenes any of us have ever seen in our lives. As it is wet season, the Salt Plains are covered with water, creating the most amazing reflections and magical wonderland. Driving towards the salt hotel, Hotel Playa Blanca, across this landscape of never ending tranquility inspired speechless (in all three of us, quite a feat). We literally walked through the water, looking and talking photos the whole time. It was like being in a giant dome, due to the reflections of the mountains in the water and the sun [View Full Entry]

By KazzaK
January 15th 2007

The World´s Bumpiest Road South America » Bolivia » Potosí Department » Uyuni

Not only can Bolivia lay claim to the World´s Most Dangerous Road but they also def have the world´s bumpiest road!!! Despite being warned by the Kiwi lads about the perils of the bus journey to Uyuni, we decided to get the bus....a few bumps sure we can survive that. As it turned out we could have survived the bumps, it was the bus being two and half hours late (due to flooding - should have given us our first clue), the three flat tyres and the three rivers that we had to cross....sans bridges! When we reached the first one, [View Full Entry]

By KazzaK
January 14th 2007

I..... can´t...... breathe South America » Bolivia » La Paz Department » La Paz

It certainly is the highest city in the world....and you know all about it every time you walk a few steps, or in our case when we had to haul ass .... and our fifty bags half way down the street to the "annex" of the hostel and then up way too many steps. We did have a nice look around La Paz though, took in some wrestling (in the girls case) or as in mine chilled out and eat and drank! Patricia and I hit Mercado Negro on Monday to try and stock up for the Inca Trail.......we were expecting [View Full Entry]

By KazzaK
January 11th 2007

Who´d have thought it?! South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco

Altitude sickness? me??? I didn´t even consider it! But unfortunately two days in bed proved me wrong...... The girls meantime had a fabulous time, The Point is one of the best hostels, had so much fun [View Full Entry]

By KazzaK
January 10th 2007

New Year - New countries South America » Peru » Lima

Arriving in Lima, to be greeted with low, flat topped, colourful houses, men playing frantic football games in run down basketball courts on the side of roads, old, colourful and dilapidated cars confirmed mental images of "South America"! There is also of course the beautiful tree lined boulevards we also drove down which provide a quiet balance and elegance to Lima. Of course, it wasn't as if our flight had gone completely smoothly, not only was the flight overbooked and they tried to persuade us to take one the next day but they had completely deleted us from the flight records. [View Full Entry]

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