There is no other way like 13 hours bus ride if you want to get to Uyuni from La Paz. It wouldn´t be even so bad if there was a pavement to Uyuni. Last 5 hours was horrible, jumpy and nobody was able to sleep. We arrived to Uyuni at 8am very tired and shocked as the temperature was about zero degrees. Uyuni is located in the middle of nowhere in 3675m above see level. The main reason tourists go there is Salar de Uyuni - the biggest salt lake in the world and one of Bolivian´s most extraordinary attraction. We [View Full Entry]

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One of the top tourist destination in Lake titicaca area are unique Islas Flotanes. (lake Titicca peruvian site) Then Uros people choose to live on the islands build using many layers of the totora reeds that grow in the shalows of Lake Titicaca. The reason they started their floating existance centures ago was to isolate themselves from Incas and Collas . One of the Uros Island we visited is very small. The are five small huts build from the same material as the island. The visit was quite commercial - a bit more than i would of expected. In few words [View Full Entry]

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We said good by to Amazon Jungle and arrived to Cuzco. Each year Cuzco city attract hundrets of thousantstourists. Cuzco is on altitude 3326m above see level which means everyone who arrives there from the lower altitude are out of breath. The altitude sickness side effects can be very unpleasant: strong headaches, dizzines, bleading nose even vomiting. Cuzco was once the foremost city of the Inca empire before being conquered by Spanish Conquistadors. There are many examples that Spaniards destroyed Incas temples to build catholic churches on the ruins. Incas engineers were extremly intelligent and many constructions survived earthquakes. We went [View Full Entry]

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From Santiago we took a flight to Puerto Maldonaldo in Amazon Basin, in Peru. We had to change our flight twice so by the time we got there we didn´t know our names... Following the Madre Dios river from Puerto Maldonado we found the best setting to enjoy the beauty of the jungle of the southern Peru. Corto Maltes Inn where we were staying creates relax and enjoyable atmosphere. We were spoiled by healthy and delightful dishes created by a French chef. The bungalows are very big, comfortable and safe in terms of all jungle species. We took few excurcions to [View Full Entry]

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We safely arrived in Chile (Santiago). We spend there 2 days and decided to head south to see Lake District and part of Patagonia. We signed up for similar bus tour like we had in New Zealand. This time only for a week. It was much smaler bus with about 8 amazing individuals...but about them I will write later. One of the most interesting thing we had ambitious to sign up for, was to climb Villarica Volcano (2847m). I need to add here that this is an active volcano. We haven't seen a volcano as it was very cloudy and we [View Full Entry]

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I am already in South America (Chile), but I wanted to upload few more pictures from South and North Island in New Zealand. I will add a text as soon as I can.. Jestem juz w Poludniowej Ameryce (Chile) ale chcialam dodac jeszcze pare zdjec z Nowej Zelandii. Tekst dolacze tak szybko jak bede mogla... [View Full Entry]

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The Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers, South Westland are an impresive sight, and may even seems a little odd that glacial ice exist alongside rainforest. Above both glaciers stands a chain of spectacular peaks over 300m high including the highest inNew Zealand Aoraki/ Mt Cook 3754m high. The glacier front is very unstable area, the ice constantly moving and colapsing. Heavy rain may cause tunnels to collapse trapping water within the glacier. Surface water often flows down vertical shafts which lead to a labirynth of tunnels deep inside of glacier. We sign up for helihike. This includes trip on the top [View Full Entry]

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There is quite a lot to say, what I have done in the Nothern Island. Notice that there are two pages of this blog entry... Just few words about pictures.. First three pictures are taken at the top of the long Peninsula, Cape Reinga. Standing at the windswept Cape Reinga lighthouse and looking out over the endless ocean on the right hand side, and Tasman Sea on the left, has a real end of the world feel to it. Both Sea and Ocean are meet each other there, generating waves up to 10 meters in stormy weather. In Maori legend this [View Full Entry]

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This is a Fiji time. First of all I wanted to thank you everyone who follows my trip and send me some comments. We went for a week to Fiji. I didn't plan anything there so I din't know what to expect. First day in the morning we overslept for breakfast. It was about noon when we went on the beach hoping to find someting to eat. We met this guy. No we are no cannibals neither he was, but he was the guy who sells coconuts. So he fed us with coconuts (few first pictures). We didn't wanted to stay [View Full Entry]

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Hey hey from Manly in Sydney.... Manly is one of the most beautiful part of Sydney. This is where we are staying in our friend's house. Our oryginal plan was to stay in Cairns, fly to Brisbaine and to Fiji from there. Instead as I said before in my other blog entry, we came back to Sydney from Cairns. I love to go with the flow and be flexible with our plans as there is always room for surprises! As I realised later there were few reasons we had to come back to Sydney. One of it was to meet a [View Full Entry]

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