Golan Trail - 27 to 30 September
September 30, 2013
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Golan Trail: Majdal Shams to Rujm El-Hiri
Friday – Majdal Shams to Mt Odem, 13.5km
Caught a bus from Tel Aviv to Khiriyat Shmona – a town way up north near the Lebanese and Syrian borders. Having picked up fuel for our stove (what a pain - options are limited here), we took a bus (#58) east towards Mt He...
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Lake Titicaca - 9 to 18 May
May 21, 2013
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Thur 9 May
After catching up on sleep in the morning, we caught a local afternoon bus to the village of Tiwanaku, 70km from La Paz. It was fascinating to watch guys loading mattresses and various goods sky-high onto the roof, but the variety of costumes, hats and faces boarding the bus we...
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Torotoro National Park - 3 to 8 May
May 10, 2013
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Fri 3 May
After our enjoyable evening in Santiago overlooking Plaza de Armas, we returned to the airport in the morning for our midday flight to La Paz via Iquique. We caught the local bus to town (about 50 cents each), and arranged an overnight sleeper bus onwards to Cochabamba before getting some dinner at...
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Easter Island – 25 April to 2 May
May 03, 2013
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Thur 25 April
After a brief overnight in Santiago, the flight to Rapa Nui (Easter Island) was much like flying from Sydney to Perth, except it was blue rather than red – not a spot of land for some 4000km. In true island fashion, the landing strip is oriented across the narrowest part of the island – le...
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Potosi and La Paz – 20 to 24 April
April 25, 2013
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Sab 20 April
Fortunately we had no trouble sleeping at the 4000m altitude where the atmospheric pressure is about 60% of that at sea level (some people wake up in the night short of breath!). Potosi is officially the world's highest city.
We located a church and enjoyed meeting some local Adventists, even tho...
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Salar de Uyuni – 17 to 19 April
April 21, 2013
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(see Salar de Uyuni gallery for more photos)
We began our 3-day trip to Uyuni, Bolivia with Estrella del Sur – we researched the companies offering the tours, as there are many reports of bad operators. We were very blessed to have a good car and an excellent driver who had apparently taken Neil Armstrong to the area many years ago!After another r...
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San Pedro de Atacama – 13 to 16 April
April 18, 2013
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Sab 13 April
We enjoyed a mostly quiet day resting and acclimatising to the altitude. In the evening we made some plans for the following days' activities.
(Left: Typical San Pedro street. Right: Interior of the local church, complete with cactus-wood ceiling!)
Sun 14 April
In...
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San Juan and Salta - 05 to 12 April
April 15, 2013
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Fri 05 April
We caught a bus north from Mendoza to San Juan and hired a car from there, for the next two days. By about 9pm we made it to a small town called San Augustin and stopped in for the night.
Sat 06 April
Lack of sleep caught up with us, so we got going a bit late. We drove 80km furthe...
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Sur Chico and Santiago Area - 25 March to 04 April
April 05, 2013
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Mon 25 March
Pulled ourselves out of bed early for an 8am sunrise bus ride to Correntoso, a village located near Parque Nacional Alerce Andino. We were pleasantly surprised to find a minivan waiting to transfer us the 13km uphill to the park (we had expected to have to walk this). The $3 park e...
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Chiloe – 18 to 24 March
March 25, 2013
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Mon 18 March
Caught a 6.45am bus from Ancud to Islotes de Punihuil where there is a colony of Magellanic and Humboldt Penguins. Chiloe is the only place where both species live together. The former species breed along the coast south of Chiloe down as far as Tierra del Fuego. The Humboldt Penguins live where t...
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