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                    <title>Eastern Himalayas off the beaten track once more</title>
                    <description>Exactly 18 months to the day since returning from Brazil I was to embark on my next adventure and boy was I excited You think you can just go travelling for 6 months a year 2 years even and youd have out of your system but once you have had that incredible opportunity like myself to experience what I have experienced it never ever goes. I will always appreciate culture long </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-425113.html</link>
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                    <title>Rio de Janeiro</title>
                    <description>We decided to leave Ilha Grande as soon as the weather took a down turn. This way we would have more time in Rio. Accommodation is so expensive in Rio in comparison to the rest of South America. I really wanted to rent an apartment  you can get some beautiful apartments in good locations for a fraction of the price of staying in a hostel or hotel. We arrived too late in Rio to move in and Sanj c</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Rio-de-Janeiro/Rio-de-Janeiro/blog-197960.html</link>
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                    <title>Ilha Grande</title>
                    <description>So there it was another mission to get to this beautiful expenal colony island. 5 hours from  Sao Paulo overnight in a place called Ubatuba then a mission to get to Angra dos Reis because there is only 2 buses one at 10 am another at 11 pm. We had to cut our losses and just take a hideously expensive taxi but I calculated that we only lost out on 35 a beautiful handmade pair of Sibyl Va</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/blog-197957.html</link>
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                    <title>The Pantanal</title>
                    <description>The journey to the Pantanal the worlds largest wetland area teeming with wildlife was not a smooth one to say the least.  I am quite used to the long journeys here she goes boasting again but its true One 15 hour bus journey noncama standard with a change over a 5 hour bus journey and then another 45 minute jeep ride into the Pantanal later Sanj wouldnt look at me. Why had </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Pantanal/blog-197944.html</link>
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                    <title>Sao Paulo to Iguazu  when one became two</title>
                    <description>Whilst I waited for Sanj in Sao Paulo airport I began thinking about my travels so far and it dawned on me that it was an end of a beautiful chapter in my life travelling solita. It has been such a special experience just having the confidence to take buses be it chicken or posh tourist buses in Bolivia getting to know children who have touched my life far more than I have touched theirs and </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/blog-197936.html</link>
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                    <title>Having a WHALE of a time in Puerto Madryn</title>
                    <description>I am not a city gal and so did not like the prospect of staying in Buenos Aires for too long although by the end of it I didnt want to leave especially as the Lindas were going to a very exciting party that weekend. I decided to see whales. So there I went again hopping onto a eighteen hour bus from Buenos Aires to Puerto Madryn. Three Hollywood blockbusters one bingo game one hot dinner</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Chubut/Puerto-Madryn/blog-197927.html</link>
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                    <title>Buenos Aires  THE place to be</title>
                    <description>Ah that feeling when I arrived in Buenos Aires after a 5 hour flight from La Paz  indescribable  it was like being at home again with all the usual comforts like central heating modern shops and wide clean roads. The word contrast is an understatement.Im not too keen on cities but after much travelling on 12 hour chicken buses I felt the need to settle a little bit and not feel the need to</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-197921.html</link>
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                    <title>Potosi  respiring asbestos in high altitude air is not my idea of fun</title>
                    <description>From Uyuni I took a six hour chicken bus to Potosi the highest city in the world  great another cold destination. I wanted to visit the infamous silver mines that the Spanish had ruthlessly exploited 500 years ago enabling Potosi to become one of the richest cities on the planet at the time. A far cry from today  Potosi heavily reliant on the dwindling mineral mining industry and one of the </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/Potosi/blog-197912.html</link>
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                    <title>Death Road  I survived</title>
                    <description>Conversation with Sanj the day before  R Guess what Im cycling on the Worlds Most Dangerous Road tomorrow S WHAT Dont do it. when Manwell was there he said that some girl died. And youre so clumsy youre likely to fall off the bike. Pause This might be the last time I speak to you. Please dont do it......or at least if you do go in the van Gee thanks for the vote of co</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Yungas-Road/blog-186827.html</link>
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                    <title>Bloody strikes</title>
                    <description> Cusco  Puno  Lake Titicaca  La Paz  So we got the First Class the name of the bus to Puno from Cusco  8 hours 3 stops. Definitely recommend it as it breaks the long journey. Stopped at Andahuaylillas yet another church dubbed the Sistine Chapel of South America but nah dont think so just another tourist puller.  The second stop in Raqchi was better  amazing Andean scenery </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Lake-Titicaca/blog-183996.html</link>
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                    <title>The Inca Trail</title>
                    <description> I was so excited to see my Dad a welcome familiar face after so long travelling. It was just such bad timing to feel so ill the day he arrived. We caught the plane to Cusco and rested for Dad to get used to the altitude and for me to recover from malaria. By the time it came to the Inca trail my Dad also got a bout of food poisoning And being fully booked till September it wasnt as though</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/Machu-Picchu/blog-182525.html</link>
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                    <title>Arequipa and the Colca</title>
                    <description> Hey Its been a while but I must finish what I have started and last week I thought I had contracted cerebral malaria from the Amazon  i swear I had the symtoms headgonnaexplode headaches fever diaroreah could never spell that word. But do not fear I recovered and it ended up being good old food poisoning contracted from the 16 hour bus from Arequipa to Lima...  Anyway took a 10 hour </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Arequipa/Colca-Canyon/blog-182513.html</link>
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                    <title>Manu nearly  Sacred Vlley</title>
                    <description> Fellow travellers  one big tip  if you want to go ANYWHERE in Peru and get offered a cheaper option by a gormless whippet of a travel agent be suspicious and DONT DO IT  The lessons just keep coming. So I wanted to visit the rainforest  in South America afterall and Manu National Park seemed like the perfect option as you could travel overland and had been told it is a paradise the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/Machu-Picchu/blog-177833.html</link>
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                    <title>Still at 3400m</title>
                    <description> Its my third week in Cusco and i absolutely LOVE it  I am actually staying longer than initially planned. Its the people that make a place memorable and give you an attachment to it rather than the scenery although that is pretty amazing.  Been rafting in the River Urumbaba Sacred Valley. A little disappointed because i was told that that it would be a fast one and I thought I had bag</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/Cusco/blog-172601.html</link>
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                    <title>Above the clouds in Cusco</title>
                    <description> Hey  Well im all the way in Cusco Peru now. That 11 hour flight from Madrid to Lima was long but thank the Lord for sleep masks and travel pillows  slept most of the way waking up only to eat the plastic food.  Didnt get to see Lima apart as I arrived in the evening and it was dark and had to catch the 6.40am flight the following morning to Cusco. First impressions of Lima  COLD</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/Cusco/blog-168787.html</link>
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                    <title>Northern Thailand  Bangkok past Chang Mai</title>
                    <description> So the trekked out Hobbits caught a plane from Kathmandu to Bangkok to start their action packed northern Thailand tour. I was secretly glad that we were all separated on the plane  I hadnt slept a wink the previous night in Kathmandu or Dogmandu more appropriate I think. The dogs are incredible  during the day they lie idly not battering an eyelid even if you were to spit at them  but</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Northern-Thailand/blog-164686.html</link>
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                    <title>Gosaikunda trek  Himalyan range</title>
                    <description> GosainKunda  In Kathmandu now after completing one of the most physically demanding challenges ever  The trek from Syabrubensi at 1450m above sea level should be done in 57 days but because of timing we had to complete in 4 days. This meant having to climb over 2000 m on our first day And that is a hell of a lot easier than it sounds. Experienced trekkers who had finished the Annapurna pass to</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/blog-158042.html</link>
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                    <title>Syabrubensi Langtang</title>
                    <description> 6 May Hi guys  I'm writing from the mountains Syrabrubensi Langtang  a small dusty little village at the bottom edge of a valley nestled amongst enormous terraced rocky and tree covered all in one mountains.  There has been ups and downs  the downs  nothing much really but at the time I did kinda get pssed off  mostly to do with our host mother who turned out to be a bit of a character</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/blog-158036.html</link>
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                    <title>Kathmandu  Sanga</title>
                    <description> Hi in kathamndu  tomorrow at 6am go to the mountains where it is one hour walk to internet access and told it is very bad. so this is going to be quick  The Vol organisation are really looking after us  have been taking nepali classes for 3 days  and i can converse  knowing a bit of Hindi is a definite advantage.  The first day we were taken around two large Buddhist and Hindu temple. A the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/blog-150592.html</link>
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                    <title>Kolkata  Kathmandu</title>
                    <description> Kolkata  Stayed in Calcutta for two nights sorry I just cant get used to saying Kolkata the Indian and official new name for the city  its like asking me to say Lindon instead of London at the Vedic Village  about an hour and a half from the heart of the city. My Mum and Dad wanted to treat me to a luxury break to spend quality time with them before I began my travelling ways in Nepal.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/blog-149637.html</link>
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