Posts Tagged With "Camping"
I just discovered that only half of my last post got published the other day (gotta love the internet connections here). So … here is the complete post … video included! Enjoy!
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We discovered a dirt road that headed eastwards from the coast into the desert, so we followed our noses and were soon surrounded by gorgeous desert scenery. The road very quickly deteriorated into a dry river bed that got progressively narrower and narrower as we continued along the way.
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It took about 2.5 hours to cross the Belize border. All the border officials were really friendly, and it was great to hear English for the first time in over a month. Vehicle insurance is mandatory in Belize, and we were easily able to purchase the necessary insurance at the border. We headed south and […]
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We returned to the little port town of Pto Jimenez and spent one last day with Ben and Lisa before they left for Panama. We camped at the Pto Jimenez Marina – a small property with a nice big lawn overlooking the bay – which was owned by “Captain Bob” … a wonderful 75 year […]
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Words cannot adequately describe the unbelievable beauty of Los Nevados National Park in Colombia.
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San Ignacio is an oasis in the desert. A river runs through it, fed by the sierras. The settlers brought date palms to the area and now the town is nestled right in the middle of a huge grove of them. There was no where to camp for free in the town, so after eating […]
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We set off early in the morning and caught the first water taxi across to an island about 1 1/2 hours offshore. We spent the whole day there checking out the little town (San Pedro) and snorkeling in the water offshore. We picked up our snorkeling gear a few hours before our snorkel trip started […]
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We’ve just been watching a very cute hermit crab for the last half hour or so. He was very shy and it took him forever to come out of his shell. Lucky for him, we returned him to the ocean .. unlike the other crabs that we caught yesterday afternoon – let’s just say we […]
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After setting off early, and a long day of driving, we had made alot more progress than we had hoped (thanks to the presence of some good toll roads), and so we decided to head 45km southeast of the town of Popayan to a national park with a volcano (Volcan Purace) for the night.
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We spent about 5 days camping on the north coast of Peru on a gorgeous sandy beach. This is the last location where we will find relatively warm ocean on this trip. Further south there is a different ocean current that prevails, yielding much colder water temperatures.
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