Keeping up with Carol!

Hola!  While I am in Cusco, Peru, and, hopefully, other parts of South America, I will try to keep this blog updated with my adventures.  I hope you enjoy reading about them!

TUE, July 31: Change to the Blog!

New entries to the blog — with photos! — are on:

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My Blog Service Provider changed their software and I'm having problems posting photos on my other blog because I have so many of them.  So please, go to the new blog for the current entries.

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Posted by Carol Garcia at 7/31/2007 9:00 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
SAT, July 21: The Otavalo Market and La Mitad del Mundo, Quito, Ecuador
On the agenda today...the market at Otavalo, then La Mitad del Mundo, the middle of the world! Also known as the equator.
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Posted by Carol Garcia at 7/21/2007 8:00 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
FRI, July 20: In Quito, Ecuador
Our bus arrives in Quito, Ecuador at 6:00 am. It's too early to find a hotel or go anywhere so it's another morning in a cold bus station. Quito is in the Andes and at around 9,300' it is cool here, unlike the heat of the coast.
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Posted by Carol Garcia at 7/20/2007 8:00 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
THU, July 19: Isla de la Plata, Puerto López, Ecuador...overnight bus to Quito, Ecuador
Today we are going to see whales and Isla de la Plata, Ecuador's "poor man's Galapagos."
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Posted by Carol Garcia at 7/19/2007 8:00 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
WED, July 18: Guayaquil, Ecuador...bus to Puerto Lòpez, Ecuador
What a great morning! We got to sleep in and take showers. We have a few hours to browse through the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, since we won't be heading to the Pacific Coast until later in the day.
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Posted by Carol Garcia at 7/18/2007 8:00 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
TUE, July 17: Máncora, Peru...combi to Tumbes, Peru; bus to Guayaquil, Ecuador
8:00 am and we are in Máncora, Peru, a year round beach town in Northern Peru. It is hot! We've crossed some kind of cold-hot barrier and have gone from being too cold to too hot.
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MON, July 16: Chan Chan ruins, Trujillo, Peru...overnight bus to Máncora, Peru
We are in Trujillo, Peru, at 5:00 am and I'm pretty much brain dead since I didn't get much sleep because I was too cold. We have no hotel to go to because we are here only for the day to see the ruins of Chan Chan.
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SUN, July 15: Isla Ballestas, Pisco, y Miraflores, Peru...overnight bus to Trujillo, Peru
Islas Ballestas, off the coast of Pisco, Peru, is considered Peru's "poor man's Galapagos Islands". We are taking a tour there this morning via boat, then we will catch an afternoon bus to Lima, which is about three hours north.
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Posted by Carol Garcia at 7/15/2007 8:00 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
SAT, July 14: From Nazca to Huacachina to Pisco, Peru
Today's adventure....sand boarding the dunes in Huacachina!
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FRI, July 13: Nazca, Peru
We arrive in Nazca at 5:00 in the morning. We have nowhere to go since nothing is open, so we find some seats in a darker part of the terminal and try to sleep. It is freezing cold and we have not brought much in the way of warm clothes because the vast majority of our travel will be in very warm climates.
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