Yes yes I still owe you four travel logs from Europe and Tokyo and here is another one from a different continent… This time it’s not purely for fun in fact it’s mainly for business. I’m over in the states to meet up with many people which work on my project. Saying that I still managed to squeeze in some sightseeing in the heartland of the States (which voted for Bush) and later up in Denver. Dallas is the first stop and as you know me, the weird and wonderful is my thing so I am in the right place. Dallas [View Full Entry]

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I know you love stats. Well I do and that’s why spent a couple of minutes while waiting for a bus to compile the best of..., longest and guess how long list. Hours spent in a bus in South America: 264h or 11 days! Distance travelled by bus in South America: 9,900km Hours in plane: 82h Distance travelled by plane: 62,000 (the earth has a circumference of around 40,000km) Number of blog entries: 43 Hours spend in internet cafe writing this blog: to many Countries visited: 15 (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, England, [View Full Entry]

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That’s it folks. After 201 days or 4824 hours or 289440 minutes or 17366400 seconds I’m back in Sydney. Had a great time in the last 6 1/2 months but from now on it’s the usual work, work, work, go out and then work again (guess you know what I mean ;) Thanks for reading my blogs and special thanks to all of you who managed to read all 43 of them. If you’re interested in seeing much more pictures then let me know I have plenty. Stay tuned maybe there will be more blogs in a few years from Africa [View Full Entry]

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Finally, after only four months I find the time to finish the last travelblog of my trip. Sitting at the moment in Denver/USA and am a bit bored. So I decided to do something useful. Hope I still remember everything…. Madrid was on the list of cities to visit as I had to fly through it anyway. I thought it nicely breaks up the long flight and I haven’t been to Spain before. The one thing that is quite noticeable is that there is so much more variety of food available here than in South America and Australia. I am still [View Full Entry]

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If you read my itinerary you might have realized that I was supposed to fly out on the 10th of July from Santiago de Chile. I realized a couple of weeks ago that I might have some extra time in Bolivia with nothing left to do. As my schedule in Europe was a bit tight anyway I decided to fly a bit earlier. Unfortunately (or luckily) there were no earlier flights out of Santiago so I decided to visit my favourite city Buenos Aires again and fly from there. Another nice side effect was that I could arrive in Germany just [View Full Entry]

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If you never clicked on the huge icon left of this text then now is the time. Clicked it? See the big white spot in the middle of the picture? That’s the Salar de Uyuni with 10.580 square kilometres the world's largest salt flat. The salt is at the outer fringes only a couple of centimetres but closer to the middle up to 6 meters thick. That’s enough salt for all the soups in the world. The nice thing abut the Salar is that it also doubles as a huge canvas for tourists to take pictures. The salt is absolutely white [View Full Entry]

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Potosi owns a couple of superlatives. It’s the world’s highest city at 4070m, was once the riches city in South America and once had more inhabitants than London or Paris. That Potosi was founded in 1545 is thanks to the Cerro Rico “Rich Mountain” which contained huge amounts of Silver. The Silver content of the ore mined exceeded up to 70 percent. Today the content of metals is a maximum of 30 percent and always a mixture of different metals. Millions of Indian labourers were forced to work in the mines and many of them died young due to appealing conditions [View Full Entry]

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Since the beginning of my trip I was successful to circumvent the worlds most biodiverse region the Amazon without touching it. Safe the best for last could be my motto but the truth is that I was always to far away or it was just too expensive to go. I finally got my chance in Bolivia. The main hub for the Amazon jungle and pampas tours here is Rurrenabaque (or Rurre) which must the one of the best (and cheapest) places to go. The rainforest here is in near pristine condition as not many people live around here and it is [View Full Entry]

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La Paz is the worlds highest capital city at a altitude of 3,600. That means three things. First the city is in the Guinness book of world records, second it's cold and third you are out of breath if you walk up two stairs or a steep road of which they have plenty here. Not much to report from here as I spent most of the time either shopping, trying to send a parcel home, in my hotel room in my bed trying to get rid of the cold I got at Lake Titicaca or sitting in internet cafes writing travel [View Full Entry]

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The “World most dangerous road” or “Death Road” as it is lovingly called by some tour operators in La Paz is a 40 km stretch of dirt road on between La Cumbre and Coroico just outside of La Paz. The stats say that on average 20 vehicles go over the unprotected edges and around 100 people loose their lives on this stretch of road per year. The cliff drops in some places a couple of hundred meters before gravity is defeated by well ground. The reasons why there are so many accidents is that the dirt on the road is very [View Full Entry]

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