It is very difficult to describe just how wonderful Tikal is. It compares to Cichen Itza and to Palenque though it is as different from either of those as they are from each other. The diversity of Maya civilisation should not be so surprising as it did go on for the best part of a thousand years and of course the culture persists.
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Tikal
HiWashington is the last installment of our trip i’m now at home in not so sunny England.However before I got home we spent two nights in sunny and very warm Washington DC which was no where near enough time to see what DC had to offer.We caught the sightseeing bus and went around the whole route before seeing the white house and visiting the Capitol building.We then split up and rob went to
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Washington DC
After all of the usual formalities at the border I was legally allowed into Ecuador and along with 4 others was on a bus heading for a smallish town 2 hours north of Ecuadorian capital. Otavalo is famed for its ever day market but attracts the most tourists and is biggest on a Saturday when residents from the surrounding areas come to trade their wares ranging from kittens guinea pigs and cow
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More than a Market Town
Wednesday 28.4.2010 day 196Holsworthy MarketsMy friend got his hair cut and then we went to the Holsworthy farmers Markets today and got a lot of locally grown produce for meals for the rest of the week. Then we went to the live animal markets and saw the calves and sheeprsquos being auctions there was also cow and lambs
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Holsworthy Markets
Another early start When will I get a lay inUp at 0645 and in the car by 0715 towards Mcdonalds Ranch for Liz Nigels horse riding trip. Myself and Andy decided it wasn’t our thing Nige was first to mount his horse ‘Rodeo’ and Liz was next up onto ‘Patches’ They got accustomed to what would be their new found friends for the next hour and off they trottedMyself and Andy stayed in the ar
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The Melting Pot
The Wellington chapter has come to an end. On May 2nd we headed across the Cook Straight by ferry to Picton.The ferry journey was surprisingly calm Laura still managed to get queasy but it really could have been a lot worse. Wellington disappeared out of view very quickly and with that all our connections to the city were cut.The latter half of the ferry journey about an hour and a half was s
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The Adventure Begins… Again
Ribadiso AlbergueThe evening at Ribadiso turned into a bit of a nightmare. The albergue seemed to have settled down around 10.30pm and all was quiet until a few well lubricated individuals returned to the dormitory just before 1.00am. Unlike conventional buildings where it would have been possible to close and lock the door at the designated closing time this albergue is based on a collecti
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Catching Up with Chris
I spent the weekend at a little place called Home Port Farm. It was a nice little farm out in the countryside surrounding the city of Whangarei and home to a very nice couple Cathy and Howard. I got lost a few times getting there and had to make a few calls to them in order to figure out where it was that I was actually going but in the end Howard was standing out on the driveway waiting for my
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Home Port Farm
Hi AllThis is going to be a short entry unlike me I know but easier for you to read…Cartagena is a beautiful colonial city in the northern part of Colombia. It offers a great old city narrow streets to stroll through surrounded by immense wall a reminder of bygone days when Pirates hunted the city for its treasures and a great fort was built to defend it. Many of the houses in the old town
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Cartagena Our Gateway to Colombia
Adam’s Blog A rainy misty drive to the ferry at Comox on Vancouver Is yes made it in plenty of time had us head back to the mainland at Powell River pop’n 12000. It was a big sawmilling and paper mill town once but they have closed down it is now more of a sleepy fishing town or end point of the road on the west coast of Canada to visit the Gulf Islands.We drove about 5kms south of the mai
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4th Week in Canada
I took a spontaneous hike up to the Boca de Alamo cave painting site about 18 miles north of here with my friend Sherita her neighbor Marta and a couple of young gals from La Paz who are staying w Marta. My friend Sherita is a huge fan of the Baja cave paintings and has taken many treks to see the various glyphs made by some of the first inhabitants of the Baja Peninsula. I have seen phot
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Boca de Alamo Cave Paintings
Sucre that got its name from a previous president not the sugar is Boliviarsquos official capital even though the seat of the government as well as two of the three democratic powers executive and legislative the court of justice is still in Sucre. are situated in La Paz. Never offend a local by mentioning that La Paz is the capital of BoliviaSucre is also called La Ciudad Blanca the w
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Sugar Town
Heute wird endlich ein weiterer Great Walk begangen. Zwar ist derTongariro Alpine Crossing nur ein Teil vom Great Walk Northern Ciruit doch bei dieser 20 km Tagestour sind sie Highlights des Tongariro National Park aufzufinden. So machten wir Ich und Felix aus Manchester UK den ich ein Tag zuvor kennengelernt habe auf den Weg.
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Tongariro Crossing
On the 30 April my May holiday officially beganMy friends and I are on the trip now the Venetian night tour that consists of visiting Budapest Venice and Verona This is my first journey without parents or teachersAs we came to Lviv where the tour started early in the morning we had a complimentary Lviv sightseeing from the tour companyBut our emotions started with having breakfast at th
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Eurotrip starts with Lviv
Les papillons ont commenc vivre dans nos bedaines…. On a rencontr les parents de Marc aujourd’hui pour les mettre au courant de nos attentes et besoins par rapport la maison et les rnos et ca veut donc dire que ca s’en vient. Dans 72 heures nous seront en direction Vancouver puis Sydney.
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3 dodos… et c’est parti