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In 2005 I took a round-the-world trip stopping in thirteen countries from India to Cambodia, Australasia and South America. This is a blog from that trip.
I arrived home yesterday after taking six flights in four days, starting in La Paz. My biological clock still thinks I’m in New York, my brain gave up somewhere around Miami and my guts haven’t got a clue where they are any more so they are protesting loudly. My backpack only just got here today, …
A quiet moment for me Originally uploaded by Big Trippy Nathan. Aaargh, I still have to update the blog with what happened on the Inca Trail, and also the visit to Salar de Uyuni, which I just got back from. Hopeless I know, but if I wasn’t off having all these experiences I’d only end …
I’m in South America, a long way from family and friends, and not entirely sure what I’ll be doing for Christmas yet. It’s not really important to me – I miss my mates and my family all the time at the moment, Christmas won’t change that. I’m pretty glad to be out of the UK …
Standard conversation between backpackers meeting for the first time: “So where have you come from?”“Peru.”“Oh wow, did you enjoy it? I´m going there next.”“Yeah, it was OK, but I much preferred Bolivia.”“How so?”“Oh, more chilled out, the people are lovely, and it´s so cheap. What about you, how long have you been travelling?”“Me? Oh, ten …
I haven´t really given Chile the time I´m sure it deserves. After one night in Santiago I headed into Argentina with Sanita and Camilla who I met on Easter Island, to Mendoza, a hedonistic, relaxed little town (well, I say little, a million people live there but it just feels little) just over the border …
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