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We have…

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

…swum with dolphins, sealions (and an iguana)…dived with turtles and rays…watched condors soar…seen whales leap out of the water…walked through colonies of blue footed boobies, frigate birds, nazca boobies and penguins…seen land iguanas and marine iguanas…half seen a kiwi, seen keas and takahes…heard howler monkies roar and seen spider monkies crashing through the trees…seen other monkies, macaws, caiman, rheas and vicunas…had a snake fall in our canoe and nearly trodden on one too… 

…visited buddist temples and shinto shrines…been to a buddist prayer service…marvelled at catholic opulence…visited inca sun temples and mayan sacrificial sites…visited mud walled cities and temples…

…eaten steak and drunk red wine…eaten turtle…had a buddist vegan meal in a temple…had fantastic fish and llama steaks…drunk exotic fruit juices and batidos…eaten wagyu beef, ceviche and sushi…had a traditional japanese meal…eaten asado lamb and cabrito al horno…drunk chicha and pulque, mojitos in cuba and caiparinhas in brazil…eaten far too many pizzas…eaten food cooked in the ground and over hot coals…visited amazing food markets… …travelled by bullet trains and horse drawn cart…caught moto-taxis and ciclo-taxis…travelled on super-cama sleeper buses and chicken buses (complete with chickens)…been squeezed into collectivos…survived two yak 42 flights…been on car ferries and a dug out canoe…

…climbed mountains…crossed snowy passes…waded through knee deep mud and swum with our packs on…camped at 4900m and near cape horn…been knocked over by the wind…canoed through rapids…waded through rivers and balanced across three-wire bridges…trekked for 9 days self sufficiently…

…poked red hot lava with a stick…walked on glaciers…climbed vertical ice walls…swum in underground lakes and thermal pools…seen steam geysers and bubbling mud…ridden horses, rafted rivers…abseiled down waterfalls…walked the soles off our boots…

…had a bloody good time!

Madrid

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

So our final leg was out of rainy Costa Rica and on to Madrid. It wasn’t the best way to end the Central America leg of the trip, but we were there at the wrong time of year and didn’t have enough time to get off the beaten track. [read on]

Alajuela and San Jose

Thursday, October 11th, 2007
We knew were weren't going to be seeing the best of Costa Rica, but we can come back here from home fairly easily.  However we weren't prepared to have to spend two days in the pouring rain.  We decided not ... [Continue reading this entry]

Granada & Ometepe

Thursday, October 11th, 2007
After our exciting ferry journey over from Utila to La Ceiba it was on the bus for us.  Down to Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, and then the following day over the border into Nicaragua and Granada. Tegucigalpa is a dump, ... [Continue reading this entry]

Utila

Sunday, October 7th, 2007
A long day of travle - two buses and one ferry - and we are finally in Utila, an island in the Caribean making up the Bay Island group. Our main reason for being here was for some R&R before heading ... [Continue reading this entry]

Copan Ruinas

Sunday, October 7th, 2007
Yeah, our shuttle bus turned up!!  Nick & I woke at the slightest noise outside our window all night, but finally our minibus showed up at around 4am and we were out of Guatemala, heading towards Honduras.  I'm not sure what ... [Continue reading this entry]

The 4am shuttle…

Saturday, September 29th, 2007
...decided it wasn't going to pick us up this morning to take us from Antigua. Guatemala to Copan, Honduras.  Very unkind of it, especially as it means we have to get up at 3.30am again tomorrow.  Something neither of us is ... [Continue reading this entry]

Tikal and Antigua

Friday, September 28th, 2007
After three nights in Belize we continue our whistle stop tour of Central America and head into Guatemala.  First stop Tikal, the largest set of Mayan ruins.  Tikal is in the jungle, and on entering we are greated with the ... [Continue reading this entry]

San Ignacio

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
After two days of travel (flight from Cuba to Cancun and then onto Chetumal on the Mexico Belize border on day one and then from Chetumal (with a quick visit to a Mayan musuem - put all the ruins into context!) - ... [Continue reading this entry]

La Habana (or Havana to the rest of us!)

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
We didn't have very good first impressions of La Habana as it is called in Cuba. It probably didn't help that we arrived fairly late and felt like we were paying a lot of money for a hotel room and ... [Continue reading this entry]