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                    <title>Fab beaches and then rain come on we're not back in England just yet</title>
                    <description>19513 Fort Myers BeachSurvived the night despite the feuding couple  I half expected to hear gun shots and it was another glorious hot sunny day so its off to the beach.  We had a quick stop at Walmart to buy a smart price beach umbrella cheaper than hiring one and drove down to Fort Myers Beach.  Parking was pretty expensive but just back from the sea road we found a pair of enterprisi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Miami-Beach/blog-786854.html</link>
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                    <title>Read on you scurvy dogs soon we be meeting Blackbeard</title>
                    <description>17513  Nassau BahamasAvast there me hearties Up fed and out Nassau awaits the proper pirate stronghold home of Blackbeard and other fearsome and fascinating buccaneers of the high seas.  Arrrr Jim lad this be the place I wants to see.First though we had to get off walk the plank I mean along the pier go through the welcome centre run the gauntlets of taxi touts hair braiding ladies to</description>
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                    <title>Grand Turk and Half Moon Cay</title>
                    <description>15513  Grand TurkWe were up early as we were excited to get off the ship and explore.  Grand Turk is a tiny island a British Colony and former pirate hangout.  From the balcony we could just see the tip of the island and it is very flat with white beaches green palm trees and sea every shade of blue and green imaginable.After disembarking we walked along the pier to the welcome building</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Turks-and-Caicos/Grand-Turk/blog-786541.html</link>
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                    <title>Gone and done it again going a cruisin'</title>
                    <description>13513  Florida City to Miami to join the Carnival Victory for our 5 night cruiseWell it only took 1  hours to drive the 30 miles back to Miami and then about 30 minutes to try and find the car rental place.  This included going right through the airport car rental parking garage right through the airport back to the airport car rental shuttle bus centre spotting the ACO our car rental comp</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Miami/blog-786537.html</link>
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                    <title>Everglades and The Keys</title>
                    <description>10513  Florida City MiamiWell I had the best nights sleep for a very long time Today we decided not to go anywhere just to get sorted out and take it easy.  So we started with a trip to Walmart ha ha gotta love that place Howard reckons we were there for 2  hours but Im sure he exaggerated  There are so many fascinating things to see in Walmart clothes to try on gallon containers</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Keys/Key-West/blog-785658.html</link>
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                    <title>Two days of waiting queueing traffic and travelling to get from Trujillo to Lima to Miami eventually</title>
                    <description>8th May 13 Trujillo to Lima We boarded the 8.45am Cruz del Sur to Lima were videoed and off we set. This bus however was top of the line and we had individual screens so we could select what films we wanted to watch. I found a Jonny Depp and started watching all was fine until Howard went to the loo and managed to freeze my screen with his bum as he pushed past. An hour later and Howard with </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lima/Lima/Lima/blog-785437.html</link>
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                    <title>El Brujo and The Lady of Cao</title>
                    <description>7513  Trip to El Brujo and the Lady of Cao I was really looking forward to todays trip as it was to the Pyramid of the Witch Doctors shamans and the Lady of Cao  the first female Moche ruler.  Our guide yesterday had told me how the site is still used today by Witch Doctors from Peru Ecuador and Columbia to perform shamanic rituals.  In the past witch doctors went to the pyramid to boos</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/La-Libertad/Trujillo/blog-784978.html</link>
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                    <title>Trujillo Chan Chan and the glorious Pyramid of the Moon</title>
                    <description>6th May 13  Chiclayo to TrujilloYet another bus journey with yet another bus company this time it was Empressta VIP and we were both finger printed and videoed for this one  Nice comfy bus but unlike Cruz del Sur we didnt get to play bingo  I forgot to mention this totally mad after lunch we were each given a one game card the hostess called the numbers in rapid Spanish and by the ti</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Trujillo/blog-784969.html</link>
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                    <title>Tombs and Pyramids.......it's The Lord of Sipan</title>
                    <description>35th May 13  ChiclayoOur first full day here we didnt do much as Howards bowels were causing him grief We did manage to get to the main square without being mown down a minor miracle Howard finally got a haircut and I have never known someone take so much pride in his work  Juan was a perfectionist he must have been in the military we managed to sort out and book ourselves on a</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lambayeque/Chiclayo/blog-784261.html</link>
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                    <title>The oasis of Huacachina and from Lima to Chiclayo</title>
                    <description>30th April 13  HuacachinaVisited the caf down the road for breakfast and ended up waiting an hour to get scrambled eggs juice and tea  There were only 2 other people in there as well.  Anyway that out the way we crossed the road to the Peru Bus station and bought tickets for Ica.  No sooner bought than we were off with us the only westerners on board again.  Once more a dubbed in spanish n</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Huacachina/blog-784128.html</link>
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                    <title>Oh those Nazca Lines</title>
                    <description>2829th April 13 Nazca We sadly left Casa de Avila and shared a taxi with a lovely English mother and daughter combo they were from Hastings yes Mum I did say Oh I went there on holiday when I was tiny and mum was on a 6 month trip of a lifetime in south America while her daughter was on a year abroad as part of her uni degree and studying in Buenos Aires. It was quite funny when their jaws</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Nazca/Nazca-Lines/blog-783611.html</link>
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                    <title>Confusion Convent and Chicken or our final two days in Arequipa</title>
                    <description>2627th April 13 Arequipa Our final couple of days in the lovely city of Arequipa but before I go into that I have to add in a bit I missed about our Colca Canyon Trip. The whole of the time we were in the minibus Howard was opening and closing the window so he could stick his arm out and take pictures  infact he took well over 200 pictures on this trip He was so attached to the camera I h</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Arequipa/Arequipa/blog-783315.html</link>
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                    <title>The Colca Canyon trip</title>
                    <description>2425th April 13  The Colca Canyon TripWe were picked up at 7.45am to start our 2 day 1 night trip to the Colca Cayon.  Our minibus was a right mixed bunch of ages and nationalities there were 2 Argentinians 3 Chinese including the mad camera woman who we had thought was Japanese from our trip to Cachi in Argentina 1 Thai 4 Polish 4 Peruvians us and 1 American.  Our guide Wilber was a </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Arequipa/Colca-Canyon/blog-783188.html</link>
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                    <title>Arequipa and it's countryside</title>
                    <description>22413  ArequipaI slept the whole night through no gasping woo hoo  Today we did next to nothing just getting acclimatised or rather sitting in the garden being lazy  Hunger eventually drove us out and we ate with the locals in a tiny little place with about 8 tables squashed into it luckily one was free.  For 1.30 we had a huge bowl of Peruvian broth like scotch broth with lots of lentil</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Arequipa/Arequipa/blog-782530.html</link>
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                    <title>The journey from Arica to Arequipa or 2 border crossings 1 collectivos and 7 hours on a bus</title>
                    <description>Peru21413  Arica Chile to Tacna and on to Arequipa PeruLast night Howard had to make a stand or should I say sprag on the bunch of Chilean lads who were making a right racket after the official 11pm SILENCIO  He gave them until 11.30pm and then off he went to the office to complain.  He shot back into our room just before the member of we heard one of the staff giving them a stern telling o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Arequipa/Arequipa/blog-782524.html</link>
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                    <title>Buses breakdown and oxygen Up the coast to Iquique and Arica</title>
                    <description>17th April 13  San Pedro de Atacama to Iquique ChileIt was in some ways quite sad to be leaving the cute hostel and the little town which we are now quite fond of but oxygen beckons so we caught the Tur bus to Calama and so left town.  We drove through the desert passing lots of salt mines and spent the journey chatting with a lovely broad cockney lass who now lives in Australia who was sit</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Arica-and-Parinacota/Arica/blog-781996.html</link>
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                    <title>San Pedro de Atacama  the driest place on Earth</title>
                    <description>Back in Chile again 1417th April 13 San Pedro de Atacama 14th April 13 continued.. So we finally found the Mamatierra Hostel and were met by a really lovely young lass who appeared to be running the place. She was rather concerned about the state I was in and quickly took us to our room and advised us to drink at least 3 litres of water each a day and told me to start drinking coca tea w</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Antofagasta-Region/San-Pedro-de-Atacama/blog-781730.html</link>
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                    <title>Over the Andes on the road to San Pedro de Atacama</title>
                    <description>14313 Purmamaca to San Pedro de Aticama Chile Ate breakfast off the table said our goodbyes and walked up the road to the bus stop point it was just a bit of gravel in front of a hotel sign soon we were joined by a young French girl and an older lady originally from Canada who literally never stopped talking it was quite a relief as we reckoned we couldnt all be wrong about where the b</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Antofagasta-Region/San-Pedro-de-Atacama/blog-781725.html</link>
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                    <title>Trip to Humahuaca and staying the night in Purmamaca</title>
                    <description>12413 Free day in Salta Unfortunately despite having a free day we had to get up and check out of the hotel by 10 so no real lie in. We had to move to a different hotel and ended up at the Posadas del Sol which was a large place but really close to the main square it was nice enough even though it was full of business groups having lectures on catering It was colder today and raining on and o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Jujuy/Purmamarca/blog-781722.html</link>
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                    <title>Arriving in Salta and day trip to Cachi</title>
                    <description>9413 Cordoba to Salta Once again another mile long walk to the bus station found our stop got on the bus got handed breakfast and off we set for the 13 hour marathon to Salta. We had the front seats at the top which meant great views but being baked in the sun there was a tv screen near us and films were shown continuously. The bus did actually stop once for 30 minutes  so the drive</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Salta/Cachi/blog-780826.html</link>
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