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The first day’s outings were a morning walk in the forest, along the Marañón river. In the afternoon I took up a free spot on a kayak for a paddle, while Cath relaxed (on-board sleeping was easy and plentiful!)
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14 August – to Iquitos on the Amazon and the Delfin
Iquitos is in the middle of the Amazon jungle, connected to the outside world only by the river and by air. There are no roads in or out. Lima and the cities of Peru are to the west, across the…
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Well, that was Peru
Well, that was Peru. Had to wake up at 04:00 this morning, to get ready for an 08:37 flight to Santiago. All went well with the transfer from the hotel, and the check-in at the airport, although there was a…
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Some photos from the Amazon
After several days of not getting the workflow right, and being confused by a mysterious error in uploading (that I now suspect may be the result of insuffient permissions in FireFox at this end), I have resized and uploaded a…
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Settling in at Titicaca – taking it easy to acclimatise to altitude
I haven’t been doing very well with the travel blogging yet, have I? We’ve had an eventful week on the steaming Amazon on board the Delfin II and I haven’t posted a single photo or even a story! In my…
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Arrived Safely in Lima
Getting to the airport in Sydney as early as we did turned out not to be too helpful, although it probably did help a little with the Sydney traffic. The check in counters for our flight didn’t open until 08:00…
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Less than a week until blast-off again!
This time we are headed for South America, specifically Chile and Peru. The plan is (roughly): Peruvian Amazon Lake Titikaka (3812m: beware of altitude sickness – hope the tablets work) Cusco and Machu Picchu (2430m) Atacama Desert (2407m) Santiago and…
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Home again
Quick place holder to let everyone know that we made it home without much grief or incident. There are a backlog of half written stories and many days of photos to catch up on, and we hope to get around…
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Hurtigruten – Tromsø to Kirkness
The trip back from Lyngen to Tromsø was longish, if uneventful. Besides the driver, we were accompanied back to town by one of the young (Australian) staff, who needed to get some tax-related paperwork sorted out, so that they could…
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Back in the arms (tentacles?) of the internet
Bit of a no news day today, but the good part is that after dragging our uselessly wheeled luggage through the snow for five minutes this morning, the hotel in Trondheim (Clarion) had a room ready for us before nine…