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NEPAL | Mon, 26 Oct 2009 | By langkawi21 | Views [136] | Comments [14]
We did it. 22 days of trekking round the Annarpurna, we made it back to Pokhara in one piece. We went through all weather conditions, torrential (unseasonal) rain for 36 straight hours which produced amazing waterfalls, but most scary was that number ... Read more >
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UGANDA | Sun, 25 Oct 2009 | By nik_and_leon | Views [29] | Comments [3]
Right, going back in time now, but well worth the effort, is a few little collected stories about our time in Kenya and Uganda. These 2 countries we visited on the first leg of our big African tour, before Tanzania and the Serengeti. We started off ... Read more >
Tags: trekking, gorillas
PERU | Fri, 9 Oct 2009 | By phil_and_alex | Views [103] | Comments [6]
sooooooo.... how about that 1 month gap in blog posting? woops. but don´t worry, its not because we haven´t done enough to warrant a post - quite the opposite really. we have had an absolutely amazing time in cuzco and I shall now attempt to sum it up ... Read more >
Tags: amistad, jungle, paulo, bus, machu picchu, trekking, hot springs, epic fail
PERU | Mon, 14 Sep 2009 | By embtravelgirl | Views [94] | Comments [1]
Talk about one of the most incredible experiences of a lifetime! That would be my yesterday. On Thursday, I began my day around 5 AM. Met up with the bus and my group for hiking the Lares Valley Trek. There were nine of us in the group with two guides, ... Read more >
Tags: machu picchu, trekking
VIETNAM | Thu, 10 Sep 2009 | By scholarships | Views [463] | Comments [1]
Maranatha Hay, winner of our Travel Documentary Scholarship has just returned from the lush Mai Chau Valley in North Vietnam. Maranatha trekked deep into the valley with a group of Doctors to set up health clinics to offer vital medical services to the ... Read more >
Tags: vietnam, trekking, mai chau, scholarship, documentary
PERU | Sun, 6 Sep 2009 | By daniryan | Views [114] | Comments [3]
After a seemingly epic five day trek from Mollepata via Salkantay Pass to Machu Picchu I'm back to tell the tale. Friday night before the trek we decided against the original plan to eat cuy (guinea pig) for dinner. Erin, my house-mate and soon-... Read more >
Tags: machu picchu, salkantay, trekking, food poisoning
CHINA | Sat, 5 Sep 2009 | By celinexiaolin | Views [64]
Work is bringing me down. I do not enjoy it. To the point that I have let it affect all aspects of my life. No more. I am here because I love this country and feeling depressed is no excuse for stopping to explore it. So after a few lazy months we managed ... Read more >
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INDIA | Mon, 24 Aug 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [100]
The night bus to Shimla was “semi-deluxe”, which should be read as completely ordinary. It was however uneventful and I managed to snatch a few minutes sleep in between potholes and hairpin bends. It arrived literally at the crack of dawn – just past ... Read more >
Tags: mountains, trekking, temple, history
THAILAND | Sun, 2 Aug 2009 | By dayangchi | Views [78]
Al arribar a Chiang Mai em vaig unir a un grup que eixia a l'endema tres dies per la selva, ja que una amiga de Valencia, Laura, venia en eixe grup. Aixi que a les 8 i mitja del mati eixiem en 4x4 un grup amb nosaltres, 3 catalans, una dona de Tenerife ... Read more >
Tags: selva, thailand, tailandia, dayangchi, trekking, karen, elephant, elefante, rafting, bambu
GUATEMALA | Tue, 7 Jul 2009 | By thefuegoproject | Views [343]
Xela to Lago de Atitlan, our overland trekking adventure. Rina and Lior our fearless guides from Quetzaltrekkers, led us over the mountains, past a highland town called 'Alaska', through cloud forests, past highland villages, past treacherous landslides, ... Read more >
Tags: guatemala, volcanoes, trekking, colonial towns
THAILAND | Wed, 1 Jul 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [407] | Video
It's a very easy system when you get a ferry in Thailand. They give you a colour coded badge with the destination written on it, each destination has a different colour. If you so much as look at the wrong queue or try to go in the wrong direction someone ... Read more >
Tags: ferry, jungle, wildlife, trekking
VIETNAM | Sun, 7 Jun 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [177]
Day two of the Halong bay tour started surprisingly similarly to day one. Claire was in the shower when the phone rang. The voice said ”Finish! Leave hotel now!” I looked at my watch: 7.10 and we had been told to meet at 7.30. Ignoring what had been ... Read more >
Tags: tour, island, trekking, island, beach, boat, canoe
VIETNAM | Sun, 7 Jun 2009 | By rebecca_fardoe | Views [138]
Thursday 28th May The train arrived in Lao Cai station at around 4.40am! This was very very painful. There was a minibus there to meet us at the station but we had to wait around for the next train to arrive. We eventually left around 5.30am. Sapa is ... Read more >
Tags: trekking
THAILAND | Sat, 23 May 2009 | By smorg | Views [91] | Comments [1]
After an arduous series of flights I arrived in Bangkok. Happy to have accomplished two things, shortening the journey back home and seeing the movie Gran Torino with Clint Eastwood, I recommend this film worth a watch.
Upon arrival I was in awe of ... Read more >
Tags: bangkok, chiang mai, trekking, arrival
USA | Tue, 5 May 2009 | By elawlor | Views [134] | Comments [2]
Hello everyone. I am now in Big Bear. I arrived this morning in time for lunch and checked into a hostel for 2 nights. This last stretch was a challenge. I bought microspikes and crossed a snowy ridge, descended 8,000 feet back to the desert and land ... Read more >
Tags: trekking
USA | Thu, 30 Apr 2009 | By elawlor | Views [142] | Comments [1]
Greetings! I am in Idylwild, CA, taking a half-day. I walked 11 miles into town today and had a huge lunch, ice cream, and will have pizza tonight. Tomorrow morning I head up San Jacinto Mt. (9,000 ft) with a few fellow PCTers. We are at mile 180 right ... Read more >
Tags: trekking
LAOS | Sun, 26 Apr 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [146]
A
tuk tuk brought us up the bank of the Nam Kong river in the morning
and we walked across a fabulously rickety bamboo bridge to a Hmong
village, beginning our trek. It was blisteringly hot and Tan, our
guide kept the ... Read more >
Tags: river, trekking, kayak, animism, mot, visa, chess
JAMAICA | Fri, 24 Apr 2009 | By khwe5401 | Views [94]
What can I say? Majestic? Quaint? Bourgeois? Legacy? Can these mere words surmiss the wonder that is Jamaica. I am one of the few Trinidadians who can proudly say that I have lived and flourished there on that island. Ever since I was young, I had a ... Read more >
Tags: trekking, beaches, on the road, sunsents, culture, lifestyle
THAILAND | Fri, 10 Apr 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [457] | Comments [2]
Choosing a trek in the North of Thailand felt like a bit of a lottery at the time. Every seemed to offer the same thing – 3 days 2 nights of a jam packed agenda including visiting a hill people village, doing an elephant ride, bamboo rafting and ... Read more >
Tags: trekking, tribe, culture, cave
TANZANIA | Wed, 1 Apr 2009 | By houdyman | Views [139]
10 hours, 11 stops for pineapples, firewood, oranges and mangos, and 2 flat tires later we arrived at Moshi, the gateway for us to Kilimanjaro. We were a little pissed at this having seen the bus we would have taken pass us 3 hours before and watching ... Read more >
Tags: kilimanjaro, trekking
PHILIPPINES | Wed, 1 Apr 2009 | By loriejoy | Views [201]
Daranak Falls Gracey
invited me to join her and her outdoor club to trek Mt. Daraitan. After
saying no to her invitations so many times, I finally said yes. We
took the 3-hour trip to the location by hopping on one of the Tanay,
Rizal-bound ... Read more >
Tags: trekking, camping, daraitan, tinipac, tanay, rizal
AUSTRALIA | Sun, 22 Mar 2009 | By liam_omalley | Views [163]
Today we took to the road again and headed inland to the imposing Blue Mountains, so called because the blue gum evaporating from the Eucalyptus forests creates a blue mist giving the mountains a blue tint. When the colonies first started in Sydney, ... Read more >
Tags: trekking, walking, blue mountains, hike
NEW ZEALAND | Fri, 13 Mar 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [156]
The next destination was Queenstown, probably the most
touristy town on the South Island and home to pretty much every adrenaline
sport known to man. Again it's a very picturesque setting for a town, on a lake
and surrounded by The Remarkables, ... Read more >
Tags: fjord, cruise, lord of the rings, trekking, nature
ALGERIA | Thu, 12 Mar 2009 | By kenton | Views [211]
Eventually I too could see the Cypress, a small dusty green dome poking above the monotonous blackened stone. From this distance it looked like small bush, the majority of its bulk nestled snugly in an old riverbed that had been eroded over the millennia ... Read more >
Tags: sahara, algeria, trekking, trees, cypress
ALGERIA | Tue, 3 Mar 2009 | By kenton | Views [425]
I am awoken by the natural light of the dawn to the sound of Ahled packing the donkeys with kit. Clanging saucepans, braying, hooves scuffing the ground. This is the first time I've seen my surroundings and I am awestruck by the sheer sided cliffs ... Read more >
Tags: trees, algeria, tuareg, tassili, trekking, rock art
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