Four weeks in Ecuador

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February 19th 2006

Published: March 18th 2006

Cuenca - the cultural Mecca of Ecuador After our amazing hike on the Inca trail to Machu Picchu (see Discovering the lost Inca city), we caught the plane to Lima on Friday 21 January. Lima is supposed to have great surf beaches but considering that we live in Sydney there was little point in trying to verify this claim. Rather, being pretty exhausted from the four day hike, we just had a walk down... Read Full Entry

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Robin Trulssen Bye

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Welcome to my travel blog! Recently, I travelled through Southeast Asia with my brother Remi (for his Norwegian MSN Space, click here). Starting in Singapore on 5 February 2007, we made our way through Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, before returning from Hong Kong on 13 March 2007. Previously, my girlfriend, Helene, and I kept this blog for our travels to Africa and South America. From November 2005 to February 2006, we visited Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, sweet home Norway, Peru, and Ecuador, before returning to our place of... full info

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Temple of the Sun at a distance

Face in rock

It is still unknown if the face that depicts an Inca chief (Nick Nolte in his previous life - an incredible likeness, isn't it?) is completely made by nature, polished by the Incas, or completely made by human hands. Considering the traditional imperial madness of the Incas, the latter might actually be the case.

Small face in rock

Discovered recently, this face is less likely to have been made by the Incas but it is not completely ruled out. What bothers me is how could the Incas have known what Napoleon Bonaparte looked like?!