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12 juin 2010

Santa Elena cloud forest reserve

We finally made an outing today! Our first real activity since we arrived in Costa Rica... it was about time! We had to get up early to catch the bus, alarm set at 7:30. Unfortunately our darling american neighbor woke us up a good 45 minutes before that......

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4 juin 2010

Recap of the USA

I've been quiet for a very long time!! i have a great excuse though! If you don't have a computer here, it's really hard to have access to the internet. There are a million free wifi zones, but it's byoc (bring your own computer). So anyways, now I have...

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15 mai 2010

IN LOS ANGELES!!!

YAY! here I am in the USA! After so many years of planning with my sister... I was a little nervous before taking the plane because I didn't have the address of the girl at whose place we were going to stay, and I had a transfer in Houston. I remember...

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12 mai 2010

Latacunga - Quilotoa

Next stop after Baños was Latacunga. Completely uninteresting town. This was the first town in Ecuador were we didn't feel comfortable. Every other town we had been in was welcoming and had charm. Not Latacunga! But it was just a stopover to go to Quilotoa....

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15 avril 2010

Amazonia

After Chachapoyas, we headed to Yurimaguas, to finally reach the Amazon and go into the jungle.Making our way from Chachapoyas to Yurimaguas ended up being much more complicated than planned because heavy rains caused a landslide on the roads. This meant...

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3 mai 2011

Java – Ketapang and Sorabaya

After getting my open water certificate, we left Padang Bai in Bali and moved on to Lovina (up north of Bali). We stayed there for almost a week. It was so peaceful. We stayed in a little guest house by the sea. We spent a day diving on the island Menganjan....

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12 juin 2010

In Monteverde

Ha! I know it looked like it, but this blog isn't dead! (yet!)So, since I last wrote... I took 2 flights to get to San Jose in Costa Rica, where I expected to spend 1 or 2 days alone before my boyfriend arrived from Panama. But there he was at the airport,...

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16 avril 2011

Indonesia - Bali

The final phase of our trip has begun. Welcome to Asia! Our last moments in Australia: Our flight was booked for friday, so we had planned to leave the Kakadu National Park on Thursday. Employees of the hotel can get a free ride back to Darwin on one...

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1 janvier 2011

Happy New Year!

A very happy new year to everyone! For us, 2010 ended and 2011 started with a LOT of heat. We've had a temperature of above 40 degrees, with warm winds. To be honest, it has been hellish! It's just that bit cooler outside than in the van, but outside...

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2 juin 2010

california, land of excess

sooo, daphne hasn't written in a while and actually it's all my fault... me: emilie - sister and first guest of honnor on this blog, a mission i have entrusted myself with in a tentative apologetic gesture to all of the followers of this blog who have...

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15 novembre 2011

The End

I'm a little late... but yes, the end of the trip has come. We arrived back in Europe, in Brussels to be precise, on the 28th of October. We suprised our family, who were only expecting us back beginning of December. We have had an amazing two (almost)...

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12 août 2011

Hanoi

We've set our base in Hanoi for the past ten days. We spend a few days visiting with my dad (the mausoleum of Ho Chi Minh, the litterature palace, the ethnography museum, the old quarter...) We spend a day in Halong Bay. My dad left on the 5th and on...

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2 août 2011

Northern Laos

Runnning so late on the blog! But to be honest, we have spent quite a few days in areas without internet. We stayed two days in Luang Prabang. My dad and I took a short cooking class one evening where we tasted pork laap: gorgeous! We went to see the...

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21 juillet 2011

Luang Prabang - Laos

Picked up my dad in Vientiane, no problem. For his first afternoon in Laos, we took him to a little retreat (despite being in town, we were in the middle of the forest) in a little bamboo house with a home-made sauna, then got a one-hour Lao-style massage....

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29 septembre 2011

Sabang - Mindoro

Ooops... you get settled somewhere and then you just forget to update people! Thomas and I changed our plans yet again! After a few days in Sabang, we decided that we liked it here and we got the opportunity for Thomas to do his divemaster course, so......

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16 juin 2011

Bangkok - Chiang Mai - Pai

Thomas left the hospital after a week. He was still feeling a bit weak so we stayed another three days in Bangkok so that he could get back on his feet. We then made the 11-hour journey by bus to Chiang Mai. I was a little worried because it's been a...

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31 mai 2011

A long weekend in Burma...

That's all we'll have done! Thomas got dengue fever and had to be sent to Bangkok after spending 3 days under the covers in a small hotel in Yangoon. I have to say that our insurance was great. They took care of everything. In a few hours we were in a...

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24 mai 2011

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia

For the past week we have been in Kuala Lumpur. We left Tawau, in Borneo, quite quickly as with Thomas' ear infection there weren't many activies we could do. Usually we don't like big cities too much and try to avoid them but I have to admit that we...

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14 mai 2011

Derawan - Kalimantan

The further away you go from Bali, the more difficult it gets to find indonesian people who speak English. And I must admit that the language barrier complicates the travelling quite a bit. Especially when arriving on the island of Kalimantan. Kalimantan...

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5 mai 2011

Yogyakarta

We decided to base ourselves in Yogyakarta and then make day trips to the various tourist sites. We started with Prambanan, about an hour away. It is an old hindu temple, that suffered quite a bit in the latest earthquakes. We realised that we were more...

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23 avril 2011

Besakih - Bali

A bit of culture today! Indonesia is the world's largest muslim country, in terms of population. However, Bali is mainly Hindu. We decided to visit the Besakih temple, the biggest in Bali apparently. We first tried to go by public bus (bemo) but it was...

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19 avril 2011

Ubud, Bali

We've unfortunately had some serious problems with our computer. Our hard drive crashed and we need to replace it. This is the second time that we have a problem with our electronic stuff and need to use our so called worldwide warranty. Well, let me...

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27 février 2010

Samaipata - La Paz

No news for a while there... we arrived in Samaipata thinking we would stay two-three days and ended up staying a whole week. Samaipata is a small village about 130 km from Santa Cruz. Starting to be a bit touristy but it remains really peacefull. So...

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4 mars 2010

End of Bolivia

After La Paz, we headed on to Copacabana (not the one in Brazil, which in fact is named after the town in Bolivia) which is on the lake Titicaca. The bus ride took a little longer than expect since on the way there we had to cross a bridge. Unfortunately...

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18 février 2010

Santa Cruz

We headed next to Santa Cruz, on Sunday. We arrived in full Carnaval festivities. The 3 most important days of Carnaval are Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The difference with Carnaval in Santa Cruz is that they don't only have a big water fight... they also...

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