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amantani island | here, there, everywhere
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Here, there, everywhere. After the Uros Islands, our boat (named Royal Caribbean. Fortunately, our family (Javier and Mathilde, above) turned out to be quite friendly. Other than buying some of their handknit hats and making small talk with them and their four year old (camera shy) son Lieber, there wasn't much else to do on Amantani except hike up the two local hills, Pachapapa and Pachamama. Also on top of Pachapapa, we met a really friendly dog, and he and Iain had a moment. It doesn't look like we di...
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November 2011 | here, there, everywhere
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Here, there, everywhere. Archive for November 2011. Last Tuesday, we bid farewell to Ollanta and set out for what's going to be a somewhat whirlwind journey through Peru, Bolivia and Chile. While the trip so far has been awesome and I'm really excited for the next two weeks, it was definitely sad to say goodbye to the place that had been home for the last two months. Pierro looks way happy for a kid who hates the taste of Pisco Sour foam. More to come from further down the road. Farmland), collected some...
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April 2011 | here, there, everywhere
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Here, there, everywhere. Archive for April 2011. A few more random shots of Hanoi courtesy of Hipstamatic - above and below are from the alley we've been living in, near West Lake. The early morning vegetable market. Scarecrows at the Museum of Ethnology: with all this free time in Hanoi, we are finally getting in all the tourist sights we never bothered with when we actually lived here. That was a terrible pun! I was also weirdly excited about roadside pho. And roadside coffee breaks! Roadside coffee br...
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September 2011 | here, there, everywhere
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Here, there, everywhere. Archive for September 2011. Our first full day in Ollanta, accompanied by another volunteer who arrived the same day as us, we hiked up to the ruins of Pinkullyuna, which loom over the central square in town (you can see them midway up the mountain). To get there, you walk down this narrow alleyway, until you get to the small wooden sign:. These long, thin buildings used to be Inca storehouses for grain. Plants growing from the top of the ruins). Hello from 11,200 feet! Coco tea,...
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October 2011 | here, there, everywhere
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Here, there, everywhere. Archive for October 2011. I never thought I'd voluntarily watch a bullfight, but when these (non-killing) ones were announced as part of the celebrations for Ollanta's town anniversary festivities, Iain and I figured, why not? At least they were having a good time? A few minutes after them come the matadors (in pink socks! And also a clown. Finally, the first bull is eventually coerced into the ring. Waving of colored flags commences. Or just jumping over. Eventually the bull is ...
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July 2011 | here, there, everywhere
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Here, there, everywhere. Archive for July 2011. Hen gap lai vietnam. The waterfall was more or less the end of our road trip. We got back into Hanoi two days later, and had a handful of days to say goodbye to our friends, eat as much Hanoi food as possible, and get our bike confiscated and then returned by the police, and then it was time to head to Saigon to catch our flights out. So, see you again (again) Vietnam! I'm so happy we got to visit this Spring. Waterfalls, trucks and mud. Even without the tr...
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the floating islands | here, there, everywhere
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Here, there, everywhere. Our second day in Puno, we went on a two day tour of Lake Titicaca itself, which began with a stop at the floating, manmade Uros Islands. As your boat draws closer to the islands, the women all stand on the banks waving and calling out hello in Aymara - it's a very strange feeling, making the whole trip feel vaguely theme-park-ish. On the plus side, I now know how to say hello in Aymara. Above: check out the solar panel behind the guy! 171; Previous Post. Harry potter en espanol.
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June 2011 | here, there, everywhere
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Here, there, everywhere. Archive for June 2011. Ho chi minh's cave. We stayed in Cao Bang for a few nights making day trips out of the city; our first excursion was to Pac Bo cave. Right on the China border, famous for housing Ho Chi Minh for several weeks in 1941. The cave itself was small and filled with drunk Vietnamese tourists who found us hilarious - lots of laughing, pointing and Tay! Ing ensued; I don't usually mind being called Tay. West") since, obviously, I am. It was totally worth driving ove...
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taquile island | here, there, everywhere
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Here, there, everywhere. I don't have as many photos of the second non-floating island we visited, in part because I didn't really like it as much. Taquile is a bit lusher than Amantani, and quite possibly objectively prettier, but by the time we got there, I was a bit burned out on being on a tour and bracing myself for a island even more touristy than Amantani. 171; Previous Post. Chong Kneas photos cambodia. Fall 2007 backpacking trip. Harry potter en espanol. Kyoto museum for world peace.
