Tag: leila
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jon and leila stinkorama – Spain 19
Weve left Mendoza city and headed north to Provincia de San Juan. Mendoza city was ok, with all the usual plazas and dogs. The most remarkable thing was the weather. Our bus trip was freezing, as the heating was broken, which made sleeping rather difficult. They fed us some revolting food and Jon won…
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jon and leila stinkorama – Bolivia 7
La Paz, soroche and Cochabamba, Villa Independencia and la Bamba otra vez – and Happy 60th dad for today! A lesson in soroche, or altitude sickness: Arica, Chile, is at 0m altitude. La Paz, Bolivia, is in the Andes and lies between 3,100m – 4,000m altitude. When you travel over high passes in a…
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jon and leila stinkorama – Peru 4
Per Wow, weve been in Per for a long time now, and have yet to make the effort to update this thing. The last post was from Copacabana in Bolivia, which seems like a while ago now, being New Years and all. I recall anticipating lots of emails as people return to work and have…
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jon and leila stinkorama – Peru 6
A new bao y ducha for Bolivia, y Navidad en La Paz We stayed two weeks in Villa Independencia, 150km from Cochabamba or 8 hours by bus, building an adobe toilet and shower. Admitedly, we were pretty naive when we started out, we expected there to be tools and materials, and that when someone said…
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jon and leila stinkorama – New Zealand 23
Sorry for the massive post. this is our trip to date. the next posts will be much shorter, probably with less photos. 17 February xxxx Ferry from Welly to Picton, drove to Collingwood in Golden Bay Our first swim – Pelorus River, just down from the bridge. Rocks to jump off, cool refreshing water after…