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Pancake Rocks, Punakaiki, New Zealand 2008-03-07 11:24:21 The PancakeRocks
, Punakaiki, are a unique natural attraction on Zealand
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’s South Island West Coast. They are formed from layers of water sculpted limestone. The fasantating rocks are well worth a stop of if you’ve got your own transport, if your there at the right time you can see the tide shoot up into [...]
Hotels, Guesthouses and Hostels With a View 2008-02-20 08:39:05 Having just added a post about Lake Tekapo Youth Hostel in New Zealand it got me thinking about places to stay that have awe inspiring views.
In no particular order here’s some I can remember staying in (will ad more as I remember)
Lake Tekapo Youth Hostel - one of the best hostels with a view I [...] Read more:Hotels
Lake Tekapo Youth Hostel, New Zealand 2008-02-20 08:08:14 Lake Tekapo Youth Hostel
is surprisingly, located right in front of Lake Tekapo in the centre of Zealand
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’s South Island. Its main attraction is the huge window with an incredible view of Lake Tekapo and the mountains and has got to be one of the best views I’ve ever had in a Youth Hostel.
Condors at the Colca Canyon, Peru 2008-02-04 07:39:05 Twice as deep as the Grand Canyon
(though the walls aren’t as sheer) The Colca Canyon is the second deepest Canyon in the world (2nd only to the The Cotahuasi Canyon situated further to the northwest)
The most popular reason for a visit to the Colca Canyon is to see the Andean Condors close up as [...]
Hand Pies in Australia and New Zealand 2008-01-31 08:22:23 A trip to Australia
or Zealand
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would not be complete without sampling the national dish, the pie.
In new Zealand a detour to the little town of (need to remember the name!) is the best place to enjoy the incredibly tasty pastries.
In Australia, (I can’t remember what the bakery was called but I remember many [...]
Grasspoint Cottage, Isle of Mull, Scotland 2008-01-27 03:48:46 Situated on a peninsular in the north west of the Isle of Mull, Grasspoint cottage is where we spent a week of our Honeymoon in September 2007, with a view of the sea out of every window and hardly a soul in sight it makes for a perfect romantic getaway. Read more:Scotland
Lapa, Rio de Janeiro 2008-01-18 10:02:27 Dont waste your money going to the swanky areas like Ipanema, head strait for a samba club in Lapa, find a partner and samba the night away.
Casa Luisa Guesthouse, Caracas 2008-01-07 15:55:14 Casa Luisa is located near to El Hatillo, an area of nice restaurants and pretty colonial architecture. Located some 10-12km from downtown Caracas
in a safe part of the city it seemed like the most sensible choice for our first visit to South America. In the guesthouse you stay in the apartment with Luisa and [...]
Indonesian Bemo’s 2008-01-04 06:52:50 Exploring the delights of Bajawa on the Indonesian
island of Flores required us to hire a Bemo for us and our guide.
This photo is of the particularly nice set of mirrors the proud Bemo owner had used to decorate the inside of his clapped out van.
It seemed to be the norm for Bemo’s to be [...]
Moeraki Boulders, New Zealand 2008-03-14 11:43:02 The Moeraki Boulders are huge spherical boulders lying scattered along a stretch of Koekohe Beach between Palmeston and Hampden. They are created from the erosion of mudstone by the waves. There extremely old and look amazing in the swell of incoming tide. Read more:New Zealand
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Our World Now, Global Warming in Photos 2008-03-28 04:18:08 Not the nicest way to start your day, but a great article on MSN News puts into pictures the devastating effect we are having on our planet.
The images in this gallery are part of a collection by Reuters and have just been published in a book called Our World
Now, which you can get from [...] Read more:Global
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Things to do in Merida, Venezuela Part 1 2008-04-17 06:52:36 Take a ride on the world’s longest cable car.
Reaching an altitude of 4765 m. Merida’s cable car is the highest in the world.
The cable car consists of four sections for a total length of 12.5 km. The altitude at the top is higher than any point in Europe and USA excluding Alaska.
The first section starts [...] Read more:Venezuela
Things to do in Jericoacara, Brazil 2008-04-20 03:37:35 We did enjoyed our visit to Jericoacara in Brasil, however it was maybe a bit to trendy for our liking and the conditions weren’t very good for beach action (the wind was too strong) but we still found plenty to do with our selves.
1. Climb up and then jump down the sand dunes
As the sunsets [...] Read more:Brazil
Spaghetti and Cheese Ice Cream, Merida, Venezuela 2008-04-25 09:49:49 Things to do in Merida - Eat strange flavoured ice cream
Merida has an ice cream parlour that boasts the greatest number of different flavours of ice cream in the world. I tried spaghetti n cheese and the salmon ice cream before some strawberry to take the strange taste away.
On the wall there’s a list of [...] Read more:Cheese
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Go to Singapore Zoo 2008-05-02 18:49:57 Singapore is a popular stop off between Indonesian and Thailand and the UK and Australia, but if your looking for things to do, make sure you visit Singapore Zoo
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The best thing about Singapore Zoo is the lack of cages or fences, the majority of animals are only separated from visitors by deep ditches. As [...] Read more:Singapore
Friday Photo - Amazon Tree Frog, Brazil 2008-05-02 09:16:53 While camping out in the Brazil
ian Amazon
rainforest, our guide woke us all up in the middle of the night, just in time to get a great close up photo of this tree frog, before he grabbed it and carefully chucked it back into the darkness. Read more:Friday
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20 Places Threaterned by Global Warming 2008-05-16 09:08:49 Holiday operator On The Beach have a blog and they’ve been writing a few interesting posts of late, one of the most interesting was 20 Cities, Islands & Countries Threatened By Global
Warming, which highlights many of the places that are facing devastation if global warming continues, some of which are closer to home than [...] Read more:Global Warming
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Camping in Camelford, North Cornwall 2008-05-30 08:50:16 Just spent a great surfing weekend in Camelford (not toe), we stayed in a great campsite Kings Acre Touring Park, don’t let the name put you off, it’s a nice sized site in a lovely location.
Camelfords got all you need and its a short walk through the fields from the campsite. Obviously, being NorthCornwall
, [...] Read more:Camping
Camping at Toms Field, Dorset 2008-06-10 17:32:24 We have just got back from 3 nights camping at Tom’s FieldCamping
. Its a beautiful campsite in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset. Its situated in the Pubeck hills about 3 miles from Swanage in the pretty village of Langton Matravers.
Highlights of our trip included a beautiful walk from the campsite down to the Dancing [...]
Camping in Camelford, North Cornwall 2008-05-30 08:50:16 Just spent a great surfing weekend in Camelford (not toe), we stayed in a great campsite Kings Acre Touring Park, don’t let the name put you off, it’s a nice sized site in a lovely location.
Camelfords got all you need and its a short walk through the fields from the campsite. Obviously, being NorthCornwall
, [...] Read more:Camping
Completely Uninhabited Islands 2008-06-18 06:36:20 On the beach have just posted a list of 7 Beautiful but Completely Uninhabited Islands
and Archipelagos.
Great places to go if you want to get away from people, though how you get there might not be so simple! I like the look of one of uninhabited islands of the Maldives, what about you?
De Long Islands, [...]
Stars on the wall posada, Puerto Columbia 2008-06-24 16:46:01 Also known as the pants ladies hostel this would have been an okay place to stay (its was fairly cheap), but purely based on the fact we were made to feel as we’d invited ourselves to stay round someones house and the owner struted around in her pants i’d give it a wide berth. Read more:Columbia
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Caracas to Puerto Columbia 2008-06-24 16:24:45 Day 2
Following the daughter of Casa Luisa owners, Carolina’s advice, we caught the bus to El Hatillo, a very colorful and pretty suburb of Caracas
. Carolina shared a taxi with us to Caracas bus terminal and kindly accompanied us to the right bus which was headed for Maracay (6,000 Bv)
In Maracay we changed to a [...] Read more:Columbia
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Kelimutu Sunrise View - Friday Photo 2008-06-20 07:55:57 This shot was taken after a very early morning trip to see the 3 coloured lakes of Kelimutu. The fairly sketchy drive from Moni on the back of 2 kids motorbikes took us up a steep windy, pot hole ridden road, through a river before both bikes managed to break down. Luckily for us a [...] Read more:Friday
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