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Wow! Bolivia has been amazing! The people the culture and the sights! For a small poor land locked country, it sure has blown us away. After Santa Cruz we took the bus to La Paz where we hung out for a few days checking out the sights. La Paz is a very neat city situated at 3600m above sea level. Nothing in this city is flat. Which makes walking around all that much harder. In fact most of the houses the foundation is the most expensive part as they have to build it so sturdy to not fall down the hill. There really is a bolivian culture that has survived through westernization. You can see it in how they dress, eat and socialize. It is truly different to our culture. While many Bolivians are very poor ... read more

Long time no blog! We have done so much stuff since the last blog that I almost don´t know where to start. I guess since right after the last blog is a good place. On the last blog it was the day before Christmas eve. I had said that we planned to go on a bike wine tour Christmas eve but due to the holidays most wineries were closed until December 27 so we post-poned that trip. In stead of the wine tour on Christmas eve we decided to take in Mendoza by doing a walking tour, and getting onto the Argentinan eating style. This includes eating late long lunches over wine with friends and dinner doesn´t happen until between 10-12 at night. We thought that wine was cheap in Chile but it turns out it ... read more

Chillin in Santiago We have as most you know already started our next adventure in South America. We didn't get around to writing a blog about our wedding in Mexico but it was amazing. Jason and I flew into Lima Peru. Here we stayed at a really neat hostel that has tons of art work and statues throughout the place. We booked a flight down to Santiago for the next day after arriving as we had to meet Tina and Mike there who were flying in shortly after. So on our only night in Peru Jason and I decided to go out and have a Pisco Sour. This is a typical drink in Peru made with egg whites, pisco and various other ingredients. Unfortunately the waitress was gone before we asked the price and we were ... read more

We decided after our big hike that we would take a completely different adventure and try out Canyoning. I'll admit this was completely my idea and my convincing. However it turned out great and we had a blast. So many people don't know what canyoning is. So first off I'll explain that. Canyoning is when you adventure down a canyon through various methods such as, abseiling (rappelling), sliding down rock chutes, jumping walking and sometimes swimming. In our case we did not do any real swimming other then being dunked at the end of some of our slides. Ok so to start at the beginning. The trip starts in Kathmandu with a "mere 3 hour drive to the borderlands resort." Or so they say. First off we started late as some of the tourist clearly didn't ... read more

Well after some more jammed packed days in Nepal I thought I'd write another update before I ship out to do my Everest Base Camp trek tomorrow morning. The food here is amazing! I think i'm going to come back 20 pounds heavier! We have been trying all the dishes and the only thing I have decided I don't like is curd. My favorite is the Buff Momo (thanks chelsea!). Jason and I have done quite a bit of walking around Kathmandu just taking in the sites and the culture. It is definately very different from all the ones i've traveled in before. The people are struck with poverty like many other countries i've traveled to but unlike others they all seem to live together intermingled. There doesn't seem to me as much seperation between the ... read more