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The Atacama Desert, Chile

September 20, 2005

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Trekking our arses off in Nepal #1

Day 3 - Arughat to Khursane Today is officially the first day of our trek around Manaslu, although we have actually been on the move for the last two. We spent a week in Kathmandu just recovering from our time in India. It was festival time when we arrived - all the locals seemed to have large wads of soggy red rice stuck to their foreheads. After a few visits to the local hospital, it turned out I had a urine infection, and the Nepali doctor was able to diagnose my 2 partially healed, fractured ribs from a fall in New Zealand months before (something that my doctor in Sydney failed to do). Today is also my 33rd birthday! From Kathmandu we travelled by bus to Gorkha , a town full of shops selling supplies, baskets, Britney Spears t-shirts, etc, and from there we took a 2nd bus to Khanchowk over terrain I would have had trouble driving a jeep through. We could have walked the route faster than the 4 hours it took to reach Khanchowk. We slept the night there, camping in a school ground...

Nepal #2 : Gokyo, Everest and friends

We have just spent the majority of the last few days sitting on the hard plastic seats of the Kathmandu departure lounge, trying to kill time until the weather improves. Unfortunately it never does. On the 2nd day we managed to get as far as boarding the plane and taxiing out to the runway, before turning around and heading back to the terminal. Today, after another flightless day we headed out to the Bouddhanath stupa for a bit of a change of scenery, and then back again to our 'home from home', the Karma hotel in Thamel. There was a lot of partying going on in the evening as today a peace agreement was signed by both the Maoist leader and the government of this country, hopefully ending the violence here, for a while at least. 23/11/06 Monjo (2860 metres) We decided last night that if our flight fails us again today, tomorrow we will take the bus to Jiri and walk into the Khumbu. After a 5am start and the usual check in procedure we sat around until 9am when we were rushed ...

The Falkland Islands

After a single night at a hostal in Santiago we flew to Stanley, the main settlement on the Falkland Islands off the bottom of the South American coast. Our flight consisted of 3 legs - we landed at both Puerto Montt and Punta Arenas for passenger exchange. At Punta Arenas we had to leave the plane for passport control out of Chile. Alcohol and food were served on each flight though, so it didn’t bother us too much. 6 hours later we landed at Mount Pleasant airport, Stanley where we met up with Patrick Watts , a friend we had made during our last visit here 3 years ago. We have come at a busy time. This year is the 25th anniversary of the Falklands war , or the ´conflict´ as they call it here. Patrick was the Stanley radio broadcaster at the time, transmitting to the settlement during the Argentine occupation (with a gun to his head for some of it, apparently). There have been many journalists here throughout this season and Patrick has been kept busy touring them around. On out fligh...

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