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Volleyball at 4000m
2008-10-10 08:07:33
The 4 day excursion from Tupiza to Bolivia’s world famous Sayla de Uyuni had many ......
 
Merida to Ciudad Bolivar
2008-10-02 18:25:36
After wandering around the delightful city of Merida, failing to get more ice cream and settlin......
 
Top destinations for getting away from the crowds
2008-09-28 13:46:47
For me one thing that can really tarnish the experience and the adventure of backpacking arou......
 
Cycling in the Andes, Merida
2008-09-16 07:42:13
  A nice thing to do whilst in Merida is to hire a mountain bike and go for a ride. We hired bikes for half a day from Fanny Tours. We got a lift half way up one of the roads that winded through the foot of the Andes. We declined a lift right to the top [...]......
 
Floating Bar - A Day in Nha Trang, Vietnam
2008-09-12 13:46:34
One of the highlights of our travel up the Vietnamese coast has got to be being a Vietnamese tourist for the day, we were the only non-Vietnamese on the boat trip that took off from Nha Trang and visited 4 islands, it included a ramshackle live band, great food and a floating bar! The day went [...]......
 
Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall
2008-09-12 08:09:30
For 400 years the Lost Gardens of Heligan we’re part of Cornish Tremayne family estate, they fell in to disrepare after 16 of the 22 gardens died in the First World War. In 1996 a group of enthusiasts decided to return the Gardens to their previous glory, a Channel 4 series brought much needed attention [...]......
 
Los Uros Girl - Friday Photo
2008-08-29 06:54:39
During a tour of the Floating islands of Los Uros on Lake Titicaca, Peru I managed to get this shot of a beautiful little localgirl. She hung on the ladder of the island look out whilst we sheltereded from the sun under it. The rest of the tour group had gone for a cruise in [...]......
 
Green Man Festival 2008
2008-08-21 08:15:08
Just returned from a fantastic weekend at The Green Man Festival in the Brecon beacons. Glanusk Park in Crickhowell was the location, a really picturesque spot for a festival, surrounded by Welsh mountains. Green Man is a great sized festival, (10,000 capacity) with a main stage, a tent (folky dokey) and a small stage (green man [...]......
 
Puerto Columbia to Merida
2008-08-07 08:22:12
From Puerto Columbia we took the bus via Maracay to Merida, a Venezuelan city sitting at the foot of the Andes......
 
Khao San Road, Bangkok
2008-07-25 01:39:11
Khao San Road Sunset, Bangkok, originally uploaded by benedict.adam. Khao San road must be one of Bangkok’s most vibrant streets, backpackers from all around the world come together here, to make it their base for exploring the rest of Thailand, take advantage of the cheap travel agents and cheap accommodation and to stock up on cheap [...]......
 
Noodle stall, Hoi An, Vietnam - Friday Photo
2008-07-22 08:00:01
Noodle stall, Hoi An, Vietnam, originally uploaded by benedict.adam. A Vietnamese lady sells noodles from her cart in front of a typical building in Hoi An, the beautiful UNESCO World Heritage site in Vietnam. Great street noodles are available all over the city of Hoi An, as well as the lanterns that can be seen in the [...]......
 
Milford Sounds, New Zealand
2008-07-04 07:26:25
Declared the eighth Wonder of the World by Rudyard Kipling Milford Sounds is New Zealand’s most famous tourist destination, and not without good reason. Probably my highlight of a trip to New Zealand, located in the Flordlands of the South Island of New Zealand, Milford Sounds has got be some of the best scenery I’ve [...]......
 
Kite flying in Jakarta, Indonesia - Friday Photo
2008-06-27 10:22:59
Kite flying in Jakarta, Indonesia, originally uploaded by benedict.adam. One of the better things to in Jakarta, in front of the presidents last erection, watch the kids fly kites as the sunsets. Of course we haggled hard, bought one too and joined in, I was particularly pleased with my handmade kite as it had a drawing [...]......
 
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.......
 
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 [...]......
 
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 [...]......
 
Google earth outreach and disappearing forests of the world
2008-06-19 03:55:00
Google Earth Outreach was launched in April, endorsed by Sir David Attenborough it allows charities to use the Google Earth software to spread information about their causes. TreeHugger posted about a great new Google Earth KML file Disappearing Forests of the World by David Tryse: This KML shows deforestation data from a number of sources for [...]......
 
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, [...]......
 
Camping at Toms Field, Dorset
2008-06-10 17:32:24
We have just got back from 3 nights camping at Tom’s Field Camping. 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 North Cornwall, [...]......
 
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 you [...]......
 
Friday Photo - Venezuela School Bus
2008-05-16 06:54:27
Keeping on the Venezuelan theme, another photo from the fantastic country. Old American school buses are the main way to get around in Venezuela, travelling in one is a great experience, each one more elaborately customised and music pumping than the last. This one was photographed just before leaving the fantastic Puerto Columbia.......
 
Friday Photo - Waterfall, Canaima National Park, Venezuela
2008-05-09 03:08:11
One of many fantastic waterfalls you’ll see on a boat trip through Canaima National Park to see Angel Falls......
 
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. 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 [...]......
 
Friday Photo - Amazon Tree Frog, Brazil
2008-05-02 09:16:53
While camping out in the Brazilian 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.......
 
 
 
 
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