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Valle de la Luna

The Valley of the Moon and New Year in La Paz

January 1st 2015
When Neil Armstrong visited La Paz in 1966, as part of an eleven country goodwill tour of South America, together with other famous US astronauts, armed troops lined the route from the airport to the city centre. They take security very seriously in Bolivia! As part of his trip he visited the Valley of the Moon, just 10 km south of the city and is said to have named it thus, because it looked like ... read more

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Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away from Spanish rule in 1825; much of its subsequent history has consisted of a series of nearly 200 coups and counter-coups. Comparatively democratic civilian rule was established in 1... ... read more

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Viv and John Cussell

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We are off island-hopping in Thailand for the month of February. We shall leave home on the 1st of the month and return on 29th (an extra day for Leap Year)! Our journey will be from Alicante to Barcelona by train, then two flights, the first from Barcelona to Doha and the second from Doha to Phuket, both with Qatar Airways. Although this will be our forth visit to the "Land of Smiles", we haven't been there for eleven years and plan to visit islands we haven't seen before. In 2009, we travelled overland from Singapore to the island of Langkawi, Northern Malaysia, in the Southern Andaman Sea. ... full info

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