From Panama, we crossed the land border into Costa Rica and made our way to the capital San Jose, arriving just after 10 in the evening. Despite looking relatively small on the map, distances can …
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Suriname
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Travel blog through Suriname,
Paramaribo, Bigi Pans, Anaula
Leticia – The Amazon and Three Countries
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Our first experience of the Amazon was in the remote Colombian port of Leticia on a small part of Colombia that extends down to the Amazon River. The only way of reaching Leticia from Colombia …
Continue readingGalápagos Islands – Part 2 Land Based Activities
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Before starting properly the second leg of our tour we visited the Chato Tortoise Reserve in the Highlands of Santa Cruz Island, which is a large farm where there are a large number of these …
Continue readingGalápagos Islands – Part 1 Sea Based Activities
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To maximise our experience of the Galápagos Islands we chose to do a mixture of sea based and land based activities. For the first four days we were on the MV Legend run by Go …
Continue readingSouthern Peru – Nazca, Huacachina and Paracas
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After re-visiting La Paz, Copacabana and Arequipa, our journey continued on to Nazca in the South of Peru. Our bus was late arriving into Arequipa, as there was a major snowstorm in the highlands of …
Continue readingIn Patagonia!
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The journey North from Ushuaia, took us back across Tierra del Fuego and a repeat visit to the famous bakery at Tolhuin to pick up supplies on our journey North. After passing through the border …
Continue readingTierra del Fuego – The End of The World
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From Torres del Paine we carried on down South to Ushuaia, the most Southerly permanent settlement in the World on the Island of Tierra del Fuego. The border between Argentina and Chile at the Southern …
Continue readingCamarones and RN3 – Western Patagonia
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A day’s drive to the south of Puerto Madryn we pitched camp in a small coastal town called Camarones. The principal sight here is a colony of Magellan Penguins where there is a walkway …
Continue readingPuerto Madryn – Wales in Argentina
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Two days out of Buenos Aires we arrived in our first Patagonian town, Puerto Madryn, a piece of Wales in Argentina. The first settlers in Puerto Madryn came form Wales to build a new life …
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