We have walked and walked and walked…and shopped and shopped and shopped! It has been a flying visit but we have had a lot of fun wandering the streets – filled with everything from antiques to the latest whiz bang inventions. We have followed a couple of different of walking tours that have taken us into […]
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We spent a few days in Denali National Park (home of North America’s tallest peak, Mt McKinley/Denali). The National Park has an interesting system for hiking. The park is divided into 43 units of land, each with a quota to determine how many people can tent each night dependant on the size and shape […]
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We arrived in Cairo at 4am and decided to drive our rental car straight to the pyramids and the sphinx so we could get out bearings and avoid the majority of the traffic. It wasnt until we drove through Cairo later in the day that we could fully comprehend what “Cairo Traffic” really meant – […]
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Border crossings are notorioiusly slow in this part of the world and ours was no different – the simple act of moving a train load of people from Russia to Mongolia (a process that occurs a couple of times each day) took the best part of 8 hours! The train is stopped, doors locked, worse […]
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Day 1: 8th Feb 2008, Machame Gate – Machame Hut, 1800m – 3000m, 10.5km We were picked up from New Castle Hotel at 8.30am and taken back to Ahsante`s office. We felt really confident with our gear – particularly as it had all been checked the day before by our guide Mosses. We met the other […]
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Where we met!!!
Continue ReadingSri Lanka has been a place of rest, relaxation and reminiscing! Sanjeewa came to New Zealand as an AFS student in 1986 and lived with the Akers for 9 months. But the way Sanj recalls names and events, you would think it was just last month! It was obviously a very special time for him […]
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Many of the fellow travellers that we met along the way had nothing but warnings about India – hot, dirty, dangerous, hot, difficult, hot…to the point we shortened our time (but not our itinerary) in India. Yes, the past two weeks have been hot, up to 46 degrees hot (115 F), with only a slight reprieve […]
Continue ReadingWe arrived in Nepal excited to be there and excited to start trekking. We had two days in Kathmandu, mostly spent organising trekking permits, gear, and ourselves for the next 21 days in the Himalayas. We enjoyed wandering the streets and meeting those who were beginning or finishing their treks. We spent a lovely afternoon […]
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Little bits of it – it’s a really big place. How we know we’ve been to China… In no particular order, we have: Tonight we are going to a Sichiuan-style opera – we are expecting acrobatics, flames, shadow puppets, face paint, masks…apparently it is wonderful! Tomorrow we head to Nepal and will start our 23-ish days […]
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