“Travel is… about learning, about crossing boundaries and mastering the fear of strangers, about making the effort to understand other cultures and thereby empowering yourself”. – Fatima Mernissi Taking in the views of Taipei…
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Exploring China’s Southeast – Overland From Hong Kong to Guangzhou, Yangshuo, Guilin, Fenghuang, Zhangjijie, Changsha, Huangshan, Suzhou and Shanghai “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world”.…
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Exploring China’s Southwest – Overland From Hong Kong to Guangzhou, Kunming, Yuanyang, Dali, Lijiang, Shangri-La, Litang and Chengdu “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new lands but in seeing with new…
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Sector 4 – The Final Chapter Of Our South America Journey… Well we’ve made it home! After 189 days, clocking up 35,000 kilometres on the truck, having explored, hiked, danced and eaten our way…
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The Best Of Bolivia! Bolivia can boast it has the world’s largest salt flat, the Salar de Uyuni, which is fantastic in its own right. But if like us, you love the great outdoors,…
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Home To Ancient Cultures… Straddling the border between Peru and Bolivia, Lake Titicaca, a gigantic, shimmering inland sea covering 8,500 square kilometres, is the highest navigable lake in the world, averaging 3,810 metres above…
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Life In A Rural Community… As well as being an impressive Inca archaeological site, the village of Raqchi, in the Cusco region of Peru, presents an insight into life in a rural community by…
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Caribbean Coast, Coffee Culture Carnival! We ended ‘Part 1‘ in the lovely Colombian villages of Barichara and Guane after we had hiked along the ancient Camino Real Trail. But our journey through Colombia did…
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Continuing On Our Epic South American Journey… If you have read our previous round-up ’38 Days Overland In Brazil’, you’ll be aware that ‘Sector 2’ came to an abrupt end with our route north…
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72 Hours Of Street Parties & Salsa! Bursting with colour, this year’s Carnaval at Barranquilla got into full swing on Saturday 1st March 2014. As part of our South America trip, we hot-footed it…
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What To Do If You Only Have One Day In Colombia’s Capital City! Bogota is Colombia’s capital and largest city, so it was a shame that we only had 2 nights/ 1 full day…
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World Class Market For Textiles & Handicrafts… No trip to Ecuador is complete without a visit to Otavalo’s bustling handicraft and food market that starts in the main square and sprawls out amongst the…
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Cusco Is More Than Just An Overnight Stop Off… Cusco, Peru’s ‘gringo capital’ is top of the list for many travellers heading to their bucket list destination Machu Picchu, the ‘lost’ city of the…
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Not Just The Legacy Of The Incas… As South America’s third largest country, Peru was the next stop on our epic 27 week overland journey as we put Ithaca through her paces making our…
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A Round-up Of Sector 2… It doesn’t seem that long ago that we were camping in the harsh, windswept plains of Patagonia and wrapping up in lots of layers to keep out the cold.…
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But Which Side Is Best? Wider than Victoria and higher than Niagara, the mighty Iguacu Falls have been one of the highlights of our South American expedition so far. A total of 275 individual…