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Cathy and Edwin: November 2006
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006. Living well in Argentina. A bottle of wine (in a restaurant) costs $9 Canadian, a steak dinner is $5, and a dozen empanadas. 250 A basic room in a hotel costs us roughly $18, and an overnight bus is $33 per person to travel 900 kms. By Bolivian standards, this is expensive, but with no springs sticking in our backs, and no dust and bugs flying in the open windows of a bus travelling down the middle of a one-lane dirt road, I think it might be better value! Down the Mendoza R.
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Cathy and Edwin: December 2006
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Friday, December 08, 2006. Our last hours in South America. We have spent the past week and a half in Buenos Aires. With a short visit to Uruguay. In Buenos Aires, we caught up with an old Argentinian friend of mine, Andres, who I had met in Chiang Mai, Thailand over 8 years ago, and also a German friend, Diego, who we first met in August aboard the Sagrado Coraçao de Jesus, on our journey up the Amazon in Brazil. In the 1951, to the rich parks and plazas of Recoleta. Last Sunday we went to the famou...
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Cathy and Edwin: August 2006
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Sunday, August 27, 2006. On the Amazon to deepest, brightest Peru. Down the road from our Hotel Ideal (BRL 30,000/USD$14) was Manaus' main market trading in everything edible brought in from the surrounding areas of the Brazilian state of Amazonas (and beyond). Fish, fruit and vegetables we'd never seen before was laid out on neat tables and benches and a whole dedicated warehouse to market huge bunches of bananas and plantain. Everyone ate the same meals at the same time. When I say the same meals, ...
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Cathy and Edwin: March 2007
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Saturday, March 31, 2007. Trekking in the Himalayas. Here's a few facts and figures:. Total distance = approximately 160 kms. Total days = 15, which included one acclimatization day where we just went for a short walk. Total climbing = from 2840m up to 5550m, down to 3810m, then back up to 5360m and down to 2840m. For the first eight days, we were trekking in the Khumbu Valley. Through villages made world famous by the likes of Sir Edmund Hillary. Although more than 90% of the trail was clear and dry, in...
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Cathy and Edwin: September 2006
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Friday, September 22, 2006. After 30 hours of bus travel from Lima, Peru, we were very happy to. Arrive in Otavalo, a small town in the Ecuadorian Andes, famous for its handicraft market, the largest of which is held every Saturday (fortunately for us, the day we arrived). We roamed through the market, admiring the alpaca sweate. Rs and ponchos, handwoven. Fabrics and embroidery, panama hats and whole roasted pigs. Whole roasted pigs? Over 1000 years ago. While the French were looking down and mappin...
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Cathy and Edwin: January 2007
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007. Exploring the North Island with the Canadian crew. On January 2nd (Happy Birthday Chris), Dad and Marielle, Chris, Colin and Emily, and Edwin and I piled into our rented passenger van to tour the central north island for a week. (There seems to be a pattern here, as Chris and I invited ourselves and our partners along on Dad and Marielle's honeymoon, too! Through our whole journey, the best traveller of all of us was our four-month old niece, Emily. Where the remainder of our f...
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Cathy and Edwin: October 2006
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Monday, October 23, 2006. Breathless on the Salkantay trek and blown away by Machu Picchu. After leaving the Galapagos Islands, and spending one night in Guayaquil, we took back to back bus rides of 22 and 26 hours respectively (bus breakdown included) to arrive in Arequipa, Peru. The White City proved to be beautiful, with cobblestone streets, ornate cathedrals, and colonial buildings constructed of. On Friday we began our 5-day trek to Machu Picchu. Location: La Paz, Bolivia. Wednesday, October 04, 2006.