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                    <title>Huanchaco</title>
                    <description>Travelling north along the coast from Lima we stopped in a couple of beachside towns for some more history lessons and some beach chilling including more surfingFirst stop was Huanchaco a beach town close to the bigger city of Trujillo. Here the traditional rotara reed boats are used by the fisherman to paddle out beyond the waves to fish and then surf back in with their catch. I used a more</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/La-Libertad/Trujillo/Chan-Chan/blog-62470.html</link>
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                    <title>Laughing in Lima</title>
                    <description>So...onwards to Perus capital city. We stayed pretty close to the Plaza de Armas in the centre of the city but Lima is a massive place with almost 10 million inhabitants and many varied districts. Wandering round the main square which includes the presidential palace it was very reassuring to see a myriad of riot police equipped with shields and tear gas guns and there was even a tank peerin</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lima/blog-62469.html</link>
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                    <title>Nasca</title>
                    <description>I was really looking forward to seeing for myself the Nasca lines and I wasnt disappointed. It is thought that these lines geometric shapes and figures were made by the Paracas Nazca and Wari peoples between 900 BC and 600 AD yet it is still not really known why they were made especially since they are so large they can only be seen properly from the air.Tons of theories abound from the mo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Nazca/Nazca-Lines/blog-68212.html</link>
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                    <title>Arequipa</title>
                    <description>On the way from Cusco to Arequipa we stopped in Chivay to visit the Colca Canyon. The canyon was originally thought to be the deepest in the world at 3191m but its neighbour Canon del Cotahuari was recently found to be a further 163 m deep. Interesting ehYou can watch the condors catching the thermals here and I was lucky enough to see a couple soaring high. Arequipa is called the White City</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Arequipa/blog-62468.html</link>
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                    <title>Carousing in Cusco</title>
                    <description>Cuzco was our base for the Inca Trail and we spent several days there before and after the trek. It is a beautiful place that was once the most important city of the Inca empire and consequently a major target for the invading Spanish. Wherever you see a church in Cusco you know it used to be the site of an Inca temple. A lot of the original Inca walls in the city still stand a testament to the e</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/Cusco/blog-62466.html</link>
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                    <title>Inca Trail</title>
                    <description>I am running low on time so I shall keep it short The Inca Trail was probably one of the toughest things I have had to do. I think this was mainly due to coming down with Athualpas revenge on the first night and then having to ascend 1.2 km from 3000m to 4200m the following day I couldnt comtemplate turning back and knowing that I had done the hardest part I knew I would be able to press on to</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/Inca-Trail/blog-62467.html</link>
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                    <title>Hee hee Lake Titicaca</title>
                    <description>Lake Titicaca is 3800 m above sea level and is so massive that looking out over it you think you are looking at an ocean. We stayed in Puno on the shores of the Lake and from there visited the floating Uros reed islands where islanders still live as their ancestors did. We also did a homestay on Amantani Island and stayed with a lovely family complete with guinea pigs running amok in the kitchen </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Puno/Lake-Titicaca-/blog-62465.html</link>
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                    <title>La La in La Paz</title>
                    <description>The madness that is La Paz greeted us as we drove in via El Alto at 4000 m above sea level. The glittering city below us was surrounded by the majestic Cordillera mountain range and Mt Illimani lording it over us all. Despite many warnings regarding our safety here I only felt mildly hassled when out and about here. The markets are something else I bought a CD for 16 Bolivianos which is approxim</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/La-Paz/blog-58421.html</link>
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                    <title>Salty Salar de Uyuni</title>
                    <description>From Potosi we made our way to Uyuni quite literally in the middle of nowhere. Luckily the loperamide held out and I managed to make it to the Salt Flats relatively unscathed. On the way we saw a train graveyard Uyuni used to be the major stop off for all trains carrying the minerals from Potosi to Antofagasta now in Chile but used to be Bolivias major port before losing it in the Pacific War</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/Salar-de-Uyuni/blog-56468.html</link>
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                    <title>Poorly in Potosi </title>
                    <description>We only stayed in Salta for two nights and then made our way over the Bolivian border via some Argentinian roadblocks by protesting national unionist members to Tupiza 3000 m above sea level. Not only was this a different country it was a different world. Being in Chile and Argentina had fooled me going to Bolivia was like stepping back in time but with funny anachronistic touches such as the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/Potosi/blog-55140.html</link>
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                    <title>Saucy Salta</title>
                    <description>En route to Salta we passed through some amazing scenery most notably the Andes And I cant quite believe quite how lucky I was but we saw a volcano erupt...one of the four remaining active volcanoes out of 38 extinct and 2 dormant ones in the region surrounding San Pedro de Atacama and close to the geyser field we had visited a couple of days previously. At the Argentine border the smoke and </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Salta/blog-55137.html</link>
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                    <title>Easter in San Pedro de Atacama</title>
                    <description>We travelled further into the Atacama region from La Serena via Bahia Ingles and onto San Pedro de Atacama. I couldnt believe there could ever be a place so dry and dusty. Not surprising really considering parts of this region have not experienced rain for 290 years En route we crossed the Tropic of Capricorn and had a game of cricket when we stopped for lunch  very bizarre in the middle of t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Antofagasta-Region/San-Pedro-de-Atacama/blog-55132.html</link>
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                    <title>La Luna in La Serena</title>
                    <description>We travelled up to coastal La Serena from Santiago and managed to check out the Mamalluca Observatorio with a late night tour. I saw Saturn with its rings and Jupiter with its moons plus tons of constellations which are not observable in the Northern Hemisphere. I also learnt that Orions left shoulder is the dying red star Betelguese. Chile is particularly good for observing stars and in this a</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Coquimbo-Region/La-Serena/blog-54472.html</link>
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                    <title>Hola Santiago</title>
                    <description>Very bizarrely I flew into Santiago with a girl who I had met on the Kiwi Experience only days before. It turned out she was doing the same South American tour as me and it was great to have a mate with whom to hang around Santiago. It probably didnt help that we were both tall and blonde and in a country of short dark'haired people it did mean we stood out quite a bit. But it was all good fun</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Santiago-Region/Santiago/blog-54468.html</link>
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                    <title>Goodbye with the Bay of Islands</title>
                    <description>It was with a heavy heart that I departed for my last bit of travel in New Zealand with a threeday sojourn up to Northland staying in Paihia but going right up to the very top where the Tasman sea meets the Pacific Ocean at Cape Reinga. This area of New Zealand is called the winterless north and is supposed to be subtropical. Well I suppose the rain was pretty sub tropicalThe area surroundi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Islands/blog-51806.html</link>
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                    <title>So long and thanks for all the fish...</title>
                    <description>Here in Kaikoura I actually made contact with the most intelligent beings on the planet. Yes I swam with dolphins. They must have thought we were bldy loopy though dressed head to foot in black neoprene I really cannot get enough of this stuff including a hood  yet more practise for my James Bond girl role plus snorkel mask and flippers we splashed around in the water trying to be as do</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Kaikoura/blog-50467.html</link>
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                    <title>News flash I'm back in Oxford...</title>
                    <description>...well not quite sorry. I am in fact in Christchurch but with my eyes half shut and my head on one side I could have convinced myself I was back take a look at the pictures. It is not surprising that it is similar Christchurch or ChCh as the locals call it was founded by some Anglican membersfellows of Christchurch College Oxford in the middle of the 19th century. I really enjoyed wand</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Christchurch/blog-50459.html</link>
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                    <title>Super Super 14 rugby</title>
                    <description>Oh dear oh dear oh dear...starting at 10 a.m. from Queenstown to watch rugby in Invercargill that didn't start until 730 p.m....Fair enough it is an approximately 2hour drive from Queenie to Invers but that still left 7 12 hours in which to do what normally accompanies allday rugby experiences. Yes you've guessed it Fish and chips in Bluff NZ's most southerly mainland town followed by fac</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Southland/Invercargill/blog-49258.html</link>
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                    <title>Excellent East Coast</title>
                    <description>Having travelled up from Kaikoura to Picton and flying across the Cook Strait to Wellington I made my way to Taupo where I joined up with a four day trip taking in the East Coast of New Zealand. This part of NZ is not so widely visited and is indeed quite isolated from the rest of the country. Napier is a pretty town that is built completely in the style of Art Deco all the original buildings hav</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/East-Coast/blog-50470.html</link>
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                    <title>Marvellous Milford</title>
                    <description>From Curio Bay we travelled to Te Anau for the night passing on the way Invercargill and the gorgeous Lake Manapouri. From Te Anau I went to Milford Sound for a 2 hour fiord cruise. This time the weather gods were on my side and it was utterly fantastic. Again I feel I cannot justly describe Milford Sound. It was quite simply majestic. Massive towers of rock rising from the sea bed having been c</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Fiordland-National-Park/Milford-Sound/blog-48851.html</link>
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