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                    <title>Ecuador</title>
                    <description>After a few sunny days in Mancora I took a bus over the border to Cuenca in Ecuador.For a country that had considered skipping entirely Ecuador was actually great. Although small it has a little bit of everything South America has to offer white sand beaches pretty Andean towns and wild jungle. It39s a lot greener and warmer than Peru and Bolivia and the people demonstrate a mix of the </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Popayan/blog-729682.html</link>
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                    <title>Cusco to Mancora</title>
                    <description>We left Cusco for Arequipa Peru39s 39White City39 and a place that contained something that elicited more excitement in Andrew than Macchu Pichu the Salt Flats or Lake Titicaca  a food court containing a McDonalds a Burger King AND a KFC. We spent a few days there doing little other than watching the England v Sweden game and visiting 39Juanita39 a fascinatingly well preserved </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Piura/M-ncora/blog-726488.html</link>
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                    <title>The Inca Trail and Cusco</title>
                    <description>Since I first planned South America last year the The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu has always seemed to me to be the trip39s centrepiece. Spaces fill up fast due to only 500 people being allowed on the trail each day so Andrew and I had to book a date for the trail as early as December last year. We therefore always knew we would have to be in Cusco on June 4th to pay our trek balance and the </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/Cusco/blog-726040.html</link>
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                    <title>The Pampas and Lake Titicaca</title>
                    <description>After spending another unproductive two nights in the Wild Rover in La Paz Andrew and I finally boarded a lightaircraft to Rurrenabaque in the Amazon Basin. It was an incredible and slighly nervy 45 minute journey over spectacular mountains and into the jungle. We arrived in a completely different world  for the first time since Brazil I was in a hot and humid tropical climate. Oh and the mosq</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/Cusco/Cusco/blog-721485.html</link>
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                    <title>La Paz and South Bolivia</title>
                    <description>I spent my last evening in San Pedro de Atacama visiting the incredible Valle de la Luna at sunset a huge dry valley that looked a little like the place where Luke Skywalker grew up. I then got back to my hostel packed my things and took a night bus to Arica on the Chilean border with Bolivia.I stayed in Arica for only a few hours hanging out at the shabby bus terminal and eating some question</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/La-Paz/blog-718320.html</link>
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                    <title>Santiago to San Pedro de Atacama</title>
                    <description>I39m currently in the driest desert in the world having not seen a tree or a cloud for over two days. I arrived in San Pedro yesterday after a 30 hour bus journey from Santiago. I woke up at 3.30am this morning to see the nearby Geysers at sunrise and I39m now killing time before visiting the famous Valle de la Luna this evening. I39ll then take an overnight bus to Arica before taking a</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Antofagasta-Region/San-Pedro-de-Atacama/blog-713760.html</link>
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                    <title>Route 40 Chiloe and the Lake District</title>
                    <description>The last two and half weeks since my last entry have been fairly fastpaced and Ive travelled a long way from El Chalten to Santiago visiting Patagonia and Lake Districts in both Chile and Argentina. Its been one of the most interesting and rewarding sections of the trip so far  combining stunning scenery touristy highlights and some offthebeatentrack locations.I arrived in El Chalte</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Santiago-Region/Santiago/blog-711605.html</link>
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                    <title>Puerto Moreno and Torres del Paine</title>
                    <description>I left Buenos Aires in the middle of the night to fly south to El Calafate a small tourist town that was to be my first stop in Patagonia. I barely remember the flight  I crashed out instantly and awoke as we were landing with my untouched food placed kindly next to me.El Calafate airport is in the middle of nowhere surrounded by the vast and empty Patagonian steppe with only a few mountains</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/El-Calafate/blog-704882.html</link>
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                    <title>Buenos Aires</title>
                    <description>After visiting the Argentinian side of Iguazu falls myself and Will a guy from Dublin I39d crossed paths with a few times in Brazil left Josh and took a bus to Buenos Aires just in time for St. Patrick39s day. On arrival we bumped into a few of the guys I39d stayed with in Rio so we all headed out to watch some Six Nations and drink some green beers. The whole world celebrates St Paddy</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/El-Calafate/blog-700574.html</link>
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                    <title>Southern Brazil</title>
                    <description>Our last night in Paraty was enjoyable as the town celebrated its birthday  meaning some live music and a very big cake. We got up reasonably early the next day to take a bus to Angra dos Reis a small port town noticeable only for being very hot and the gateway to Ihla Grande.Josh and I spent five nights in Ihla Grande a paradise island with excellent beaches including the stunning Lopes Men</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Misiones/Puerto-Iguaz-/blog-697448.html</link>
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                    <title>Carnival Rio de Janeiro and Paraty</title>
                    <description>The flight from San Jose to Rio de Janeiro with Taca was comfortable and included copious free alcohol and a very easy transfer in Peru take note USA so I arrived on Wednesday 15th feeling relatively refreshed. Rob and I crashed out on the bus but luckily Amber was alert and we got off next to their hostel in Copacabana. I was reliably informed that mine was a few blocks away but it was actuall</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Rio-de-Janeiro/Paraty/blog-691990.html</link>
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                    <title>Costa Rica</title>
                    <description>It39s not been long since my last blog but it39s my last day today in Costa Rica and therefore Central America so it seems like a good time to update. I39m currently in San Jose for the third time in six days getting ready for my flight to Rio de Janeiro this afternoon. Central America has been incredible  a chance to explore a group of countries that I knew very little about previo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/San-Jose/San-Jose/blog-686733.html</link>
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                    <title>El Salvador and Nicaragua</title>
                    <description>First of all an apology no pictures in this post. Im standing in my hostel in San Jose Costa Rica after a very long day travelling. It takes quite a bit of time and a USB port to back pictures up and I have neither tonight Today I intended  and failed  to make a difficult journey from San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua to Monteverde Costa Rica using no less than six local buses and cross</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/San-Jose/San-Jose/blog-685665.html</link>
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                    <title>Guatemalan Highlands Lago de Atitlan</title>
                    <description>Today after two and half great weeks we finally left Guatemala for El Salvador. I39m currently sitting in my hostel in El Tunco on the Pacific coast the first time I39ve seen the ocean since Tulum in Mexico. Due to its notorious reputation and some previous advice I hadnt planned to go anywhere near El Salvador but travellers Ive met out here said it couldnt be missed. In my fir</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/El-Salvador/Western/El-Tunco/blog-683277.html</link>
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                    <title>Palenque to Antigua Guatemala</title>
                    <description>At the time of writing my last blog post I was shattered from an overnight bus journey between Tulum and Palenque in the Chiapas area of Mexico. 12 hours interrupted regularly by military checkpoints and questioning Chiapas is known for its drug trafficking had not put me in the best of spirits and I was not exactly relishing a night sleeping out with the spiders and cockroaches in our jungle </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Capital-Region/Antigua/blog-681518.html</link>
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                    <title>Week 1  Arrival and Mexico</title>
                    <description>It39s now coming up to a week since I left England for Mexico it but feels like I39ve been travelling for months already. The first week has required some adjustment and lot of trial and error but I slowly feel like I39m getting there and have even found myself making some half decent attempts at Spanish. After writing the first blog post on the morning of my flight I left for Heathrow an</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Chiapas/Palenque/blog-679023.html</link>
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                    <title>Leaving</title>
                    <description>HelloAs a lot of you will already know I39m spending the next seven months travelling around South and Central America initially solo with the intention of meeting some friends along the way. I39ve decided to keep an online travel blog as I go as it should hopefully allow anyone who39s interested to keep track of where I am while also being a good way to keep my own record of the jour</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/blog-676692.html</link>
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