Blog Entries tagged 'round_the_world'
Travel Blogs Entries tagged 'round_the_world'
- USA – Chicago Flushable toilet paper, drinkable tap water and a familiar language... We must be in the United States of America. We hadn’t quite remembered that we were here for winter though and we were welcomed by snow and bracing winds in Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Jan 28, 2012
- Farewell Latin AmericaWell 5 months after starting out on our trip it has already come to the end of our Latin American adventures. Even though we are excited about the next travels, we are still sad to be leaving such a great Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Jan 22, 2012
- Mexico - PalenqueThe heavens opened when we arrived into Palenque. We were here to see yet more ruins and enjoy the jungle of Mexico. We decided to head out to El Panchen which is outside of the town near to the ruins. Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Jan 19, 2012
- Mexico – Yucatán PeninsulaThe Yucatan peninsular is well known for its summer resorts for the Americans, but it is full of history and some pretty cool natural scenery with over 6000 Cenotes (natural sinkholes in the limestone land) dotted around the peninsular. We Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Jan 17, 2012
- Mexico – Mexico CityMexico City is a heaving monster of a city, the dusk landing approach with the city lights stretching for miles gave us an appreciation of this. The urban sprawl has swallowed up little villages along the way. Although all this Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Jan 15, 2012
- Peru – LimaWe had to come back to Lima to rejoin our round the world airline tickets which would take us away from South America and up to Mexico. It also happened that this coincided with the New Years celebrations. We went Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Jan 8, 2012
- Chile – ValparaisoValparaiso is renowned for its massive fireworks displays that it puts on over New Years, unfortunately for us, we were flying out on the 30th so we just had a couple of days to see the city minus the fireworks Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Jan 5, 2012
- Chile – Pucon We didn’t have any plans of where we were going to be for Christmas, but once we started to look at possible places that fit into the logistics of heading north through the country, there was only one candidate that Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Dec 30, 2011
- Chile – Torres del PaineA 5am bus, a border crossing, a few transfers and 16 hours later Dan and I arrived in Puerto Natales, the base for trekking in the beautiful Torres del Paine national park in Chile´s Patagonia.
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- ANTARCTICASome interesting facts that you may not know about Antarctica...
1. Antarctica is the coldest, driest, windiest and highest continent on earth.
2. The lowest ever temperature recorded on earth was in Antarctica. It was negative 89.6°C
3. It has not r Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Dec 23, 2011
- Argentina – Parque Nacional Los GlaciaresWe had a few days up our sleeves before needing to get down to Ushuaia so we grabbed out the Lonely Planet and looked to see what was interesting further south than Bariloche. Reading about the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Nov 30, 2011
- Argentina – BarilocheAnother 20 hours on a bus got us down to the Argentinean Lake District. We were looking forward to coming down here as the English Lake District is our favourite spot in the UK. The drive down looked a little Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Nov 29, 2011
- Argentina – MendozaThe sole purpose for coming to Mendoza... Wine!! Argentina´s principle wine region they are famous for their red wines especially the Malbec which is particularly good from this area. We settled into our hostel after the 14 hours overnight bus Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Nov 28, 2011
- Argentina – Buenos AiresBuenos Aires (BA) was a cool city! Hip, modern yet old school, historic and glamorous. It could easily be sat somewhere on the European continent. In fact the Porteños (Buenos Aireans) themselves think that they should be in Europe, not Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Nov 26, 2011
- Brazil/Argentina – Iguazu FallsIguazu Falls are located on the Iguazu river which forms the border between Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. Paraguay lucked out though as the waterfalls are only on the Brazil/Argentina part of the boarder and are a major attraction in South Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Nov 23, 2011
- Colombia – Amazon Slow BoatLeticia is a really small isolated town on the Amazonas River where the boarders of Columbia, Peru and Brazil meet. It is so isolated that there are no roads that lead to it, you can only arrive by boat or Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Nov 22, 2011
- Colombia – Tayrona Beaches & CartagenaAfter some gruelling kilometres on the lost city trek, our original plan was to spend a few days on the Tayrona beaches to relax. Having decided to spend a few days extra in Ecuador and then having our missed flight Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Nov 22, 2011
- Colombia – Ciudad PerdidaThe Lost City of the Tairona´s is hidden somewhere in north Colombia and kept concealed by the dense jungle. It dates to around 800AD, 650yrs earlier than Machu Picchu. The city probably became abandoned during the Spanish times possibly from Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Nov 17, 2011
- Colombia – Santa Marta We were supposed to be doing our first update in Colombia from Cartagena, however this was the start of a run of bad luck that we started to have. We got on the bus at 7am in Quito expecting that Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Nov 9, 2011
- Ecuador – Around QuitoOur weekend was here and after a solid week of studying we headed off to Otavalo- It is famous for its large markets on a Saturday, so along with our ´School Friends´ Claire and Jeremy, there was no better time Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Nov 7, 2011
- Ecuador – QuitoWe hadn’t really planned anything for our week in Ecuador, so a few weeks back Tanya and I decided that we would take the opportunity to do Spanish lessons for a week. Travelling for the last few months with Leigh, Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Nov 6, 2011
- Peru – MancoraWe had a long journey to Mancora. We had hoped to break up the trip but the transport options were not going to work so 2 busses and 24 hours later we were in Mancora. [Dan – luckily the roads Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Nov 5, 2011
- Days 1 & 2!After 3 and a half years of nothing but working & saving money we're finally heading off on our travels! Despite the years I had to prepare and think about what to take we only eventually finished packing at 11am Posted by OrcadianAbroad in An Orcadian Abroad | Sep 30, 2011
- Peru – Ica & HuacachinaNote author change: Tanya!
Travelling had been intense for the past few weeks (only one sleep-in in 3 weeks) so Huacachina was the place for us to come for a well earned break. I know we won´t get getting much sympathy Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Oct 29, 2011
- Peru – Inca Trail (Part 2 - The Inca City)When we woke up in the morning, we could see stars, which was promising for some good views in Machu Picchu. A little but of high cloud came over when we were lining up for the checkpoint but thankfully we Posted by dbgomes in There and Back... And There Again | Oct 17, 2011
