January 3, 2010 – 4:39 pm
This was the year I travelled around the world, starting off in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the world’s biggest party, the Rio Carnaval! It’s funny how the second you get home you almost forget you ever spent over five months seeing some of the most beautiful parts of the planet. So to remind myself [...]
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Also tagged 2009, amazon, angkor wat, bloco, cambodia, carnaval, China, death road, great wall, laos, machu picchu, rio, south america, Travel, travelling, vang vieng
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After a bus ride, broken up by a short bort ride over the lake, I arrived in Copacabana and was happy to check into a hotel with lake-front views for 20 bolivanios, £2… the only problem is the bathrooms were manky as hell. I am really bad at forward-planning and ran out of money, not [...]
After a very rough bus ride from Corioco to Rurrenabaque, our first plan was to find somewhere that sold the amazon tour for the cheapest price possible. We settled with a company called Amazonico Travel, paying the equivalent of £60 for a few days in the pampas. Highlights include the boat ride to the lodge, [...]
April 18, 2009 – 10:51 am
This is allegedly one of THE must-see places of Argentina. Apparently the backpacker scene is intense, and there is shitloads to do. Well according to my experiences they’re wrong! Maybe I turned up in off-season, or perhaps it was the hostel I stayed in, but in all my time there all I managed to do [...]
We have just spent 2 days travelling non-stop from Salta, Argentina to La Paz, Bolivia… and the worst thing has happened. No, I haven’t had my passport stolen or my backpack nicked. My ipod has let me down and grinded to a halt literally the second I crossed the Argentinian-Bolivian border! I wouldn’t normally care, [...]
