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Over two months back in Blighty, to work and reality we have finally completed our last entry!
We have some amazing memories from all over the world. After a slight delay, yes I know, we have now completed the blog and will have it printed and bound, and it will take pride of place in our bookcase.
Travelling:
• 32 Flights (Don't even want to think about our giant CO2 footprint…)
• 60 Long Distance buses that is something like 480 hours or almost 3 weeks spent on busses!!! Scary thought!
• We drove our selves, 8350km or 5200miles. That is the same distance as if you where driving from the most northern point of Sweden in a straight line to the equator in Congo.
• Boats and ferries…at least none of them sank
• Mopeds, tuk tuks, bikes…and by foot
We Have …
• Climbed to 6088 meter above sea level
• Jumped out of a plane at 5000 meters
• Dived to 18 meters
Biggest, Largest…in the world
• La Paz - The Highest capital
• Potosti - The Highest town
• Biking down, The Worlds Most Dangerous road…speaks for itself
• Atacama desert - The driest desert
• Salar De Uyuni - Largest Salt Lake
• Bolivia - Only country to have a navy WITH OUT a coastline
• Lake Titicaca - Largest Highest lake
• Puerto Moreno - Largest advancing glacier
• Las Vegas - Biggest Eiffel tower…outside of France
• The Great Wall - Only man-made structure to be seen from space
• Uluru - largest monolith (single rock for the uneducated)
• Largest beach party - New Year Copacabana & Ipanema (Brazil), 2million people
Wonder of the world four out of seven…DONE!
• Mexico - Chichen Itza
• Peru - Machu Picchu
• Brazil - Christ the Redeemer
• China - Great Wall of China
• The animals from our trip that we love to have in our garden…(or in bath tub)
• Patagonia -The 18 meter long Southern Right Whales and 3/4 million penguins
• Australia -Kangaroos and Koalas
• Borneo -Orang-utans and giant turtles
• Peru- Llamas and Armadillos
Keeping those muscles working…
• Honduras - Learnt to dive
• Inca Trail - 4 day hike - 45km, up to 4300 meters
• Bolivia - Climbed Huayna Potosi , Cordillera Real- 6088 m - painful!
• Guatemala - Mountain biking - sheer fear!
• Chile - Pucon - rafting
• Boliva - Mountain biking 64km down hill from 5200 m
• Argentina - Hiking in Fitz Roy - 14 hour hike
• New Zeeland - Sky dive - Insane!
• Fiji - snorkelling
• Borno - Diving Sipadan with giant turtles and thousands of Barracudas
• China - Climb Hua shan Sacred Mountain, 2100m
• Great Wall of China - 10k hike
Memories for different reasons…good and bad
• Driving California Route 1
• Guatemala - Walking on a live volcano
• Peru - Getting extremely sick in the Nazca Flight
• Argentina - seeing 14 massive whales
• Argentina - Patagonia - 25 hour bus journey - the nature didn't change
• Rio de Janeiro. A great effort of an all-day drinking session with Matt the day before New Year…
• Brazil- Great week with The Gustafsson's
• New Zealand - Living together in a van 3x2 meters for 3 weeks
• New Zealand- Cricket - England won something for a change!
• Borneo - Orang-utans- the most gorgeous creatures ever
• Bali- chilled to the bone- beautiful small hotel
• Indonesia - Horrendous ferry experience
• Thailand - an even worse boat ride…closest near death experience on the whole trip!
• Thailand - Koh Phi Phi- getting absolutely bucketed
• Vietnam - Hanoi- dodging mental traffic
• China - 26 hour train journey and the whole experience of 1.3 billion hocking and spitting people
Top 6 beaches
1. Brazil - Illha Grande
2. Brazil - Morro de Sao Paulo
3. Fiji - Yasawa islands
4. Australia - 7 mile beach, Northern NSW
5. Thailand - Koh Mai Phai (Near Koh Phi Phi)
6. Thailand - Koh Chang
Amazing nature
• Argentina - Iguazu falls
• Bolivia - Jeep trip through the desert and salt lakes
• Peru - The Andes
• New Zeeland - Views of Mount Cook and Haast Pass
• Australia - Uluru
• Australia - Blue Mountains
• Vietnam - Halong bay
• Vietnam - Sapa - hiking with the Hill tribes
Cultural stuff
• Mexico - The Mayan Pyramids
• Guatemala - Antigua - Prettiest town in South America
• Peru - Amazing that they could build Machu Picchu up in the Andes
• Brazil - Salvador de Bahai - Beautiful
• Guatemala - Tikal ruins- So very… Star Wars.
• Cambodia - Angkor Wat…very very old
• China - Terracotta army
• Great Wall of China
• Japan - Tokyo - temples
Top 5 Cities
• Las Vegas - A Disney World for adults
• Rio De Janeiro- Everything you would expect
• Sydney - Has everything
• Singapore - Great city
• Hong Kong - the light show and skyline
Top 3 list of worst accommodation
1. In a very strong 1st position…USA - Santa Barbara - The disgusting cottage with a sinking, stinking floor in the shower. Plastic cover on the bed
2. Close 2nd place…Fiji - Beach Bura - with a strong smell of mould and damp
3. place goes to…Las Vegas - Checking in to a 1 star motel at 11 am with a drunk hooker in the reception and a retarded drooling man in a wheelchair and blood on the phone in the room
4. We have to add a 4th place…Indonesia -Lombok. Hotel with a wall of black mould, blood in the bed and breakfast was out of this world
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