Hi Vida, I'm enjoying your blog and particularly this latest which I find very interesting having been persuaded against going to Malaysia for the very reasons you mention concerning palm oil which I make great efforts to avoid. Have fun and I look forward to the next.
What a place! A wonderful jungle adventure, Vida, and what a privilege to see so many rare animals and birds. But what also comes through is your sense of foreboding about the fate of this biodiverse island in the midst of so much despoliation by the loggers and palm oil growers.
Contrast The temp here this morning was below 3 C and it has been snowing even at our elevation of 240 feet! Kinabalu Park looks wonderful, and what an amazing flower. Your comparison with a tyre brings home just how amazing. Enjoying your account - thanks Vida.
Keep going! Thanks for the blogs Vida, all very interesting, with great detail - you don't miss anything, and you make the 'ordinary' interesting! So glad you got to see the orang utans, would love to do the same. Hope you're coping with the heat ok, and that the mozzies are continuing to keep their distance. Enjoy the rest of your trip. Patrick :))
Pics Food looks super Vida...don't much like the sound of the coffee though! Blog continues to be most interesting, thank you. Look forward to checking out these exotic places in the Times Atlas (if they're big enough to show up).
Very interesting I have read all your blogs with great interest. You are obviously happy with the winter change and enjoying it. It has been a very mild winter in Angus with very little frost and snow. In Florida it has really warmed up in March and has been in the 20's at night and around 29C during the day. Marti
Vida's 1 - 3 blogs Dear Vida, thank you for sharing this interesting journey. Your geographer's eye makes it vivid and immediate to read. Happy birthday btw, I know it's round about now - what a way to spend it! Happy travelling!
Enjoying travels. Hi Vida, It looks like you have settled in well and exploring the local area. Glad to read your blog and that you are enjoying company. Look forward to the next episode. Have fun, Gillian
Welcome home! Have printed out all your adventures, Vida. Had to forward them to home, as the school network filters blogs, not allowed!! What a trip! Hope to be retired in just over a year, John and I have South America on our agenda. Get in touch on your return to Perth, be great to see you when we're next en route to Edinburgh - both boys still there. Hope you had a safe journey home, Barbara and John
fantastic! Its like a Conan Doyle lost world! Dont tell the Americans that their trickle is second class...Is it the Brazilians talking about saving the forests?
That will teach you to eat Chinese.......better to stick to local food.....
Hope you are going to give us a presentation on your return Vida, presuming you are coming back sometime?
Brilliant Your journals arre so vivid and the pics (including the spitting llama) are marvellous. I expect I'm like your other friends, very envious! Mind you, I don'tknow that I'd cope with the no loos on the desert drives and other practical problems,but certainly feel Im almost there with you. And those fabulous places you've been stayingn for a few dollars a night too. You ust have reseached your travels well, I think.
. Your descritpions are terrific. how will Kinclaven seem after all this? But I suppose you did equally enthralling travel before in central America, didnt you? Hope it's all still going well. Love J
thanks so m Late happy birrthday - just loved your account of this particular adventure. All the others too. I've had a broken wrist, so difficult to type (and lots of other things) for 5 weeks. But soglad you had such a great 60th. I did't realise you'd reached such a landmark.
What an interesting time you've had, Vida. I was riveted by the account of your 4x 4 jaunt. Salt beds and floor, unbelievable - and I'd nevefr heard of them before. Lots of friends have been to Peru,but apart from knowing a famly who lived in la Paz in the 1960s before coming here tolive near us in 1968 , I am ignorant of Bolivia. I used to go to the markts with this family here and they ate a whoe carton of capsicums a week, thy had got so used to them in La Paz, I remember!
Plaster off now,though my wrist is a bit sore!
Hope you and Fe are still well and enjoying the last things.
It really makes me want to go there myself. A wonderful description of an incredible landscape which must have felt like a different planet. The confidence generated by such a professional and able guide and his charming and able wife Augustina must have added so much to the enjoyment, especially during the more difficult stretches. Thanks Vida for sharing it all with us.
Happy Birthday on the 14th! Hi Vida
Great to have your news...I'm SO impressed!
Hope you have a super 60th.....Celebrate it well!
Love and all good wishes
Jennifer :0)
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Most enjoyable to read . Thank you so very much Vida