http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/SquirrelandKittykat/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from SquirrelandKittykat en-us Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:21:48 BST Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:21:48 BST From Ecuadors steaming warmth to the cool desserts of Chile the climate change has been a little of a shock....uuuahhh the cold is something we will have to get used to i suppose.. Chile i always thought would be a little green on the coast yet there is sand sand and more sand...the biggest dunes we've ever seen stretching for 250km or forever... We Found ourselves in a real Oasis in the south http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Chile/Antofagasta-Region/Calama/blog-303356.html Hmmm to start off with the giant fire...late one evening just before bed i was wandering some dark dodgy street in San Lorenzo while Kate slept soundly away from the pouring rainwhen a rather impressive explosion ripped through the night sky accompanied by an orange glow a few blocks away....so hastily i headed toward the commotion...no not very smart i understand half a market plus a two st http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Ecuador/Canoa/blog-295106.html The Carribean sea..blue warm and beautiful...we stayed for one night in an ancient tent on a beautiful beach. It started to rain about midnight but not enough to drown us. Gavin scampered up a very tall coconut palm and stole a couple for tea when no one was about gt it was very hot there and we both got rather burnt badly but swimming in the warm turquoise water was joyous.After a slow boat http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Colombia/Bogota/blog-292143.html Hmmmm sitting down to enjoy a long awaited lunch after a killer bus ride one can imagine my delight as a large hot ceramic bowl arrives before me... Mondongo soup...wow...i plunge the spoon deep and out comes a large alien looking piece of white substance with tiny ticklers all over it...after a long chew i realize pigs tripe is the local delicacy i was reccomended...hmmm the sweet smell of jell http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Colombia/Cartagena/blog-288631.html Its very hot here in Columbia and Very beautiful palm trees and coffee plantations...sigh.....text to follow i promise love to you all Kate and Gav xxx http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Colombia/Salento/blog-287446.html Hmmmm welll not much pics but a few things will either make you cringe or sigh... So coming up from Cuzco...a nice 21hr bus ride through mountains and desserts...past Nazca note the giant highway built straight through the middle of one on the coast and the panamerican highway north.... leaving the dessert lands of the westcoast we visited the excavated tomb of the king of Siam wow how much Go http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Ecuador/Riobamba/Devil--s-Nose/blog-284097.html Well Machu picchu astounded myselfKate Cisco and Elvis.. A surprizingly warm humid 5am start with breakfast of warm fresh banana cake with coffee in a polystyree cup from a little old peruvian lady about 65years old.... hmmm all for a dollar fifty.... amazing to see how many tourists get up this time of the morning to line up like sheep.... so we climb in a flash bus with soft seats http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Cusco/Machu-Picchu/blog-279182.html Hi everyone Some different sights....XXX http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/blog-278127.html We have arrived at Lake Titicaca and are staying in a very cute little town by the lake called Cocacabana mmm pls excuse the spelling gt. We left La Paz by minivan all 12 of us at 5pm so it was 9 and dark when we arrived.. so I will leave the description of the spectacular scenery for Gav and another time.After leaving Cochacbamba it took about 8 hours over the mountains and thru the high http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Lake-Titicaca/blog-276776.html Just a wee note to let you all know Im on the mend....got to be strong to be a dad so would have to be pretty good to knock me out....hehe oh and Mother its not those worms in you brain but thanks for the suggestion.... and yup Jamie i started feeling sorry for all those sheep too...hehe like minds... There was some pritty cool dreams and visual fuzzieness at times poor Kate sleeping in the http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Bolivia/Cochabamba-Department/Cochabamba/blog-275586.html After a saline drip 8 blood tests and a chest Xray The doctors say Gav has pnuemonia .... They gave him a shot of something and sent us away with a script and he will have to come back Monday for a consultation with the specialist. ...hehe nice to lay in a bed for a day with a drip and stare at the ceiling feeling a little more human after some good concoctions.....iv style... hopefully will http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/blog-274857.html Weve been in Bolivia umm 6 days I think Its been a bit stressful Gavs come down with something scarey hes over the road in the hospital getting some through tests this time when he first got sick we thought it was probably altitude sickness we were up at about 2800mtrs in Tupiza but the doctor at the hospital there thought it was simonella posioning due to drinking the tap water. He gav http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Bolivia/Cochabamba-Department/Cochabamba/blog-274811.html And from Misones onwards a long left hand curve to Resistencia by bus to be stranded a whole day in this humourless city sigh Then over night again northward by bus to Salta.This was a very pleasant place very few spanish looking people now more and more native faces. We happened onto a tidy little hotel with a charming host Lucas. Very freindly happy to let us practice our pretty sad http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/Tupiza/blog-273477.html Enchanting falls..Back over the boarder a bus ride from the grass planes to the jungle from dry to hot humid and a wee bit sticky a 3km walk along the highway under somewhat intense sun... wondering all the time why nobody from the eldridge side has bothered to write yet...apart from the fact you all work in front of computers hint hint..... anyway we got to play with a baby lepoard for a wh http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Misiones/Iguazu-National-Park/blog-270567.html 6 days ago we were in B A we have crossed the Rio del Planta roughly translated brown soup river by ferry boat and bussd along the coast to stay in Montevideo Capital of Uruguay 2 nights Manatales sleepy beach town 2 nights and now back in M. and on the way we came apon a great pelvis so down we sat elvis to have a photo moment... he was elated.. and then shoe shopping for three hr http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Uruguay/District-of-Montevideo/Montevideo/blog-268775.html Home of a thousand pesos steak to drool over and enough leg room only for a small mouse....or maybe kate...hmmm and a wee ride over the andies at 8000meters... after a synthetic omlette a strange aeorplane bun an air hostess with large hands and an adams apple we arrive in the not so wee town of bunes aires... Hmmm seems all so long ago we had jobs and our snug little flat in Jackson street.. http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-266606.html greetings and salutations to all of you that have ventured into our self indulgent four month journey prior to the hatching of wee Kate and Gav junior we will try as often as bandits kidnappers and large jungle animals will allow to keep it up to date and full of eye candy....so please if we dissapear for a bit worry not we are just simply having far too much fun to be sitting in front of a com http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-263808.html