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Jeeping through Bolivia Pt. 2

Made it to La Paz after visiting Potosi, Sucre, and Cochabamba and we finally have internet so here is part two of our Jeep trip.  The second half of the trip was simply spectacular.  We hit 5000...

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Potosi – Sucre – Villa Tunari

These photos cover our 5 or so days after the salt flats.  Unfortunately I cant connect my phone to computers here to get the pictures off so there are some missing.  Here goes! It turns out that...

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Amazing Lake Titicaca

At first I thought to myself, it´s only a lake.  I mean come on, how cool can it be?  Well our overnight trip out to some floating islands and two others showed me why Lake Titicaca is not just some...

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Colca Canyon Adventure

Colca Canyon was about 4 hours from Arequipa and came highly recommended.  We decided to forego hiring a guide and instead set off on our own.  Everything worked out well though the photos below don´t...

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Cusco to Las Salinera – Sacred Valley

Cusco is a wonderful place that is full of tourists which doesn´t bother me in the least.  This post covers the little time we spent in Cusco, the ruins at Chinchero, the Moray circles, and the...

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Ollontaytambo – Sacred Valley

I´d heard great things about this town and I was glad we used it as our jump off point for Machu Piccu.  There´s enough stuff to do around Ollontay for 3 days, but we had to pick and choose.  We got...

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Machu Piccu

Finally.  I knew it would be good, but not this good.  We started walking at 5 AM in what turned into a steady rain.  Up and up and up to the entrance to the park.  I was thinking please, please don´t...

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Tiny Bit of Lima & Huacachina

The Lima pictures are first because I took them with my phone but we were in Huacachina before that.  We spent only one day in Lima which is unfortunate but I´m sure I´ll be back at some point.   One...

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Puerto Lopez and First Day in the Galapagos

We spent a couple days visitng a friend of mine on the beach before going to the islands and while the weather was less than stellar, we still had a great time.  After spending so much time up in the...

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Galapagos 1

Our trip around the islands is hard to put into words. The mad dash These guys were minutes old and had zero chance of making it with the circling frigate birds so we were allowed to hold them....

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Galapagos 2

From the mid-section of our voyage. Tunnels Our boat and some friends Pretty darn near perfect Jason´s head crap shell Sailing away from shark-infested waters (the best kind!) Doin´ a little dance...

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Galapagos 3

Here are the land photos covering the last 2-3 days.  So much of what we saw and did is not represented here due to the fact it took underwater.  Oh well!    

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Colombia So Far…

Been out of the loop for a while.  Conditions (threat of constant rain) have meant that I haven’t taken any pictures with the good camera so here are some phone pictures.  We went through Salenta and...

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Cartagena and Tayrona National Park

We had only a short 4 or 5 days up in the north of Colombia…too short.  But we did get to see the old city of Cartagena on a beautiful day.  From there we headed to Santa Marta and then on to spend 2...

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El Cocuy National Park

Chase and I were thwarted in our plan to do a 7 day circuit in El Cocuy due to the Uwa (local tribe) refusing to alow tourists to enter the entire eastern side of the range.  Oh well.  It was still one...

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Salt Cathedral outside Bogota

This place was plain weird.  I read a blurb about it and it didn´t take much convincing to get Chase and Camilo on board.  I simply have never seen anything remotely like it.  Though still a...

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Some Nicaragua and Guatemala

Here is a what I managed to take in almost 3 weeks.  The weather was not cooperative so I rarely was able to get my camera out.  Nicaragua was wonderful to visit again, especially our visit to Somoto...

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