Reserva Nacional de Fauna Andina Eduardo Avaroa and Salar de Uyuni. It was a rather uneventful birthday, I was doing precisely what I'd proclaimed not to do... 'to spend it on a bus going into Bolivia'. Cecilia and I had boarded the bus from Humahuaca in Argentina, after an epic one week journey to a small mountain town called Iruya. On the bus were a handful of Argentine tourists, entertaining all on board with hours of uninterrupted singing. I requested my very own birthday song, sung in Spanish, which I then recorded on my MP3 player for fun. We crossed into [View Full Entry]

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....in El Bolson. I arrived in this small town, located just 2 hours from Bariloche, on a rainy afternoon. All I knew about this place was what a Columbian tourist from the last hostel had told me, that it´s a hippy little town with a nice arts and crafts market. At the bus station I´d made a last minute decision to take a chance and stop here prior to making my way to Bariloche for Christmas. Little did I know that I would spend a lot longer than a day here. I hopped off the bus and stood at the side [View Full Entry]

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I continued North from Parque Nacional Torres del Paine to El Calafate for some views of the Perito Moreno glaciar. Although such a touristic destination, it was worth the stop..... Coming face to face with a wall of ice as tall as a 17 storey building is impressive. From Calafate I took the typical tourist route to El Chalten, located near Parque Nacional Los Glaciares. I found a nice hostel and settled in for the rest of day. At this point it hadn´t stopped raining for 5 days. I hoped the sun would come out the next morning, as I had [View Full Entry]

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Me Encanta Patagonia! I sit under a tree to write this story down on paper first. It´s very cold and I´m wearing two pairs of pants, two hats, 2 tops plus a jacket, and not forgeting the gloves. I´m in a beautiful forest and occasionally I can hear the sound of thunder, except it´s not thunder, it´s the sound of crashing ice. Earlier I saw a large chunk break off from the nearby glaciar, half way up the mountain, and scatter into an avelanche of fine powder on the rocks below..... Don´t worry, I´m not close enough to it to get [View Full Entry]

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Hola Amigos! What can I say, it was the Carribean........... Absolutely gorgeous! The water was pure, turquois and very very warm........The sand was a pure white....... and the sunrises were brilliant! My tan happened by itself, I took it slow and put plenty of sunscreen on every day... just to be on the safe side. Just a couple of hundred meters away from my beach cabana there was an old Mayan city in ruins, perched on the cliff, overlooking the ocean. I shared this beatiful spot with very few tourists and spent the entire time contemplating life and beauty......... and readin [View Full Entry]

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Lost luggage and 3 flights later, I arrived in freezing New York from sunny Egypt wearing flip-flops on my feet (Aussies be ware of using the term thongs outside of Oz, people would look at you funny, thinking that you´re talking about your g-string). Flip-flops aren't a good idea, when changing continents and climate zones, and especially when travelling with Iberia airlines, so I´ve learnt. Lucky me, I met a lovely girl named Nicky at New York airport, who took me in for the night... While I was having a nervous breakdown at one of the service desks at the airport [View Full Entry]

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Salaam-Ah-lee-koom, Firstly I'd like to say how amazing Egypt is. The people are really friendly... though you can expect to get hassled in the tourist areas. I was walking down the street when a friendly Egyptian man offered his quirky explanation as to the meaning of the expression 'to walk like an Egyptian'.... He told me that it comes from riding camels, due to the strange way they move, rocking their rider back and forth, while they're holding onto the reins with one hand stretched out forward and the other backwards for support from the saddle. Once the rider disembarks the [View Full Entry]

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It´s great to be back in this sunny country. It´s now half way in October and while the rest of Europe is slowly but surely cooling off for winter, the Spanish are still enjoying sunshine and temperatures in the high 20´s. Feelings of homesickness have subsided since re-entering Spain, and I have eased into the local vibe quite comfortably. After a few uneventful days of pure sight-seeing in Barcelona, I headed off to Valencia. I loved this city for its laid pack vibe, although Spain's third largest in population, it did not have a 'big city' feel to it. The old [View Full Entry]

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Haloo, Switzerland... Land of much beauty with rolling hills of luscious green, spotted with charming Swiss cottages and grazing cows, and set against the backdrop of tall mountains with steep, snowy peaks receding in the distance. Numerous falls already carve their way through the rocky peaks. Time has marked the passage of water in many places, forming patterns and deep gorges, where in winter it will collect and find its way down the mountain side again. Bridging the gorges and connecting the paths of humans are many long-legged bridges made of this same rock. Jungfrau Joch, 'joch' [View Full Entry]

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