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Vale do Pati
Vale do Pati
First view of the Vale do Pati, on day 1 of the trek in Chapada Diamantina National Park
I'm in Mexico City at the moment, having come here from Brazil via Easter Island, and as usual I have about 2 months worth of travels to update, so here goes.... From the Pantanal to Brasilia it was another 18 hour bus journey, getting there at lunchtime. Because Brasilia isn't geared up for backpackers at all, I only spent one night there in a 'budget' hotel (10 whole pounds!), having the whole day the next day and leaving on another night bus. Arriving was a bit strange, as when you get to the capital city of a country of 182 million, [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 7th 2007 | 144 Views | [diary=153888]

Pass me my jetpack
Cathedral accompanied by futuristic blob
Car and person looking unfuturistic

Capybara
Capybara
A bit of a slow to move one, in Carlos Pelligrini park in Argentina
Just so you donīt get too confuddled (I know I do) these photos are between Carlos Pelligrini and the Pantanal, so all the penguin and Beagle Channel photos happened between the missing link 1 and missing link 2, if that makes any sense [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 7th 2007 | 127 Views | [diary=140687]

Caiman
Iguacu falls
Iguacu falls

By momac
March 21st 2007

The missing link

 South America » Brazil » Bahia » Porto Seguro
Train graveyard
Train graveyard
Near the salt flats at Uyuni, Bolivia
Here are the photos that I wasnīt able to get scanned for a while - some of them seem like a long time ago now! [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 7th 2007 | 148 Views | [diary=140673]

Bolivian flamingos
Bolivian funny stones
Isla del Sol, Bolivia

Iīm in Campo Grande in Brazil at the moment, whiling away the 8 hours between checking out of my hotel and getting the bus to Brasilia! (a mere 18 hour journey). So I donīt suppose I have any excuse for my blog not being up to date. Iīve just finished a 4 day trip into the Pantanal, where I saw toucans, very rare hyacinth mccaws, caimans, a tapir and the dreaded anaconda. But donīt think you get to hear about the exciting stuff first, you have to sit through everything else before we get to that. I think I last got [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 10th 2007 | 160 Views | [diary=136775]


By momac
February 2nd 2007

OOOPS!

 South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires
It would appear that I've not been very good at keeping my travel blog updated, now having at least a month's worth of backlog, but I have lot's of excuses, the main one of which is that I've been in the middle of nowhere for a long time now, and when we've got to somewhere with internet facilities, we usually don't have time to do anything at all. I've also had problems with getting some of my photos scanned (too expensive in Ushuaia, will take too long in Buenos Aires), so there's a bit of a gap in the photos, but [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 2nd 2007 | 283 Views | [diary=124958]

La Paz
Witches market, La Paz
Train graveyard, near Uyuni

By momac
December 19th 2006

Photo update

 South America » Bolivia » La Paz Department » La Paz
Putapampa pass
Putapampa pass
We went over this pass at 4900m on the way to Chivay. Itīs a tradition for Quechuan people to bring a stone up from the bottom of the mountain to build these wee cairns for good luck.
Here are some photos from Colca Canyon and Arequipa in Peru [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 19th 2006 | 159 Views | [diary=112128]

Colca canyon
A condor
Another condor

Not sure about you
Not sure about you
A girl in the village of Cucani keeps an eye on the mad gringos
Or I suppose it should be An Inca Trail, as the one we did is not the classic trail which takes you to the Sun Gate at Macchu Picchu. Instead we did a trail that started in a village in the Lares valley and followed old Inca paths for three days, including crossing over a pass at 4800m. The first day we just went on a trip to Pisac in the Sacred Valley, a really impressive Inca site with ruins of temples and other bits and bobs on a steep terraced valley. We spent a couple of hours exploring the site [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 19th 2006 | 150 Views | [diary=112172]

Pisac
Setting off
Quishuarani kids

Your intrepid explorer
Your intrepid explorer
Me at the edge of Laguna Quilotoa before walking back to Chugchilan - a couple of days before I had walked up from the lake to the top, a knackering walk! Incidentally, those sunglasses are now somew... [more]
Here are some photos from when I was staying at the Black Sheep Inn in Chugchilan in Ecuador, just had them developed not that long ago [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 7th 2006 | 160 Views | [diary=109132]

A long way home
View from the balcony
Misty morning

By momac
December 7th 2006

Busy busy!!

 South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco
Everyone's gone to Tena
Everyone's gone to Tena
One of our guides, Livio, with some of the kids who were left in charge of the village
I've been doing so much over the past month or so, that I've not had the chance to update - every day has been different, so make yourself a cup of tea and here goes: We left Quito for Otavalo with the new group - 4 of us from the previous trip and 6 new people. We had already been to Otavalo with the previous trip, but because it was advertised as part of the next section, we had to go back, although really only ended up spending an afternoon and a night there. From there it was an all day [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 7th 2006 | 148 Views | [diary=109106]

Ecuadorian rainforest
Lunch stop
The group

By momac
November 11th 2006

Photo update

 South America » Ecuador » North » Quito
Los Llaneros
Los Llaneros
Llaneros are the cowboys of the Los Llanos region in Venezuela, and supposedly pride themselves on their toughness. This is the area that Hugo Chavez is from
Got some photos developed and scanned. Think this will have to be my way of updating now that my wee digital camera has died a death. Still toying with the idea of buying one, but theyīre a bit more expensive in Quito, so will probably dither about it for the next year or so...anyway, hereīs some photos. Theyīre a bit mixed up, and all the monitors in this internet place are a bit dark, so hope they show up. Iīm sure this whole process will become a bit smoother over time... [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 11th 2006 | 177 Views | [diary=102197]

Caiman
Useful advice
Above Villa de Leyva



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