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Pics from Leticia – Iquitos – Yurimaguas

25 January 2011 in Peru | No comments

From Leticia – Iquitos – Yurimaguas, posted by Stacey Hope-Bailie on 1/11/2011 (Showing 4 of 30 items)

“Photos from the journey between Leticia and Yurimaguas including the first boat, Iquitos and then the crazy Christmas boat. A couple of the pics are stolen from Sonya, some others are taken by kids on the last boat.

If you wanna read about it, check out “Inexplicable Illness, Indescribable Experience” on the blog:
http://stacey.hopebailie.com/2010/12/22/inexplicable-illness-indescribable-experience/”

: Photo by Sonya Vandenblink Mercado Belen in Iquitos

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Inexplicable illness, indescribable experience

22 December 2010 in Peru | 1 comment

(22 December, 2010, lying in hammock, lakeside cabanas, Sauce, outside Tarapoto, Peru) Someone was bound to get sick. I had one night, only a few hours, when a sudden urgling burgling feeling in the belly left me with the digestion of a new born infant once or twice, but it was nothing like the fevers fought during 20 minute intervals between bathroom visits, or the three or four sleepless nights and largely useless days suffered by two of my fellow travellers. Read the rest of this entry »

Bogota Pics

21 December 2010 in Colombia | No comments

From Bogota, posted by Stacey Hope-Bailie on 1/11/2011 (Showing 4 of 24 items)

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Barichara and Guane Pics

21 December 2010 in Colombia | No comments

From Barichara and Guane, posted by Stacey Hope-Bailie on 12/11/2010 (Showing 4 of 18 items)

“Did a day trip to this awesome old school village outside of San Gil called Barichara and walked down the old Spanish trail to Guane.

These places aren’t part of any blog posts, but if you’re interested:
http://stacey.hopebailie.com/”

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San Gil Pics

21 December 2010 in Colombia | No comments

From San Gil, posted by Stacey Hope-Bailie on 12/11/2010 (Showing 4 of 15 items)

“San Gil is an up-and-coming adventure sports centre I went to for a few days between the coast and Bogota. I did hydrospeeding (boogy-boarding down river rapids) and then went parasailing!

San Gil doesn’t feature in the blog but if you’re keen check it out:
http://stacey.hopebailie.com/”

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Waiting for the Rain

21 November 2010 in Colombia | No comments

(13:10, 21 November, hostel in Taganga, a small fishing village just outside Santa Marta, Colombia) It rains every day. At least once. Sometimes, like it is now, so much and so hard that water crashes in waves of mist, into even the most fully covered areas. Sometimes it splashes down and recedes in a few minutes. Sometimes it rises like a tide, increasing slowly and steadily up to its height and then retreating after dominating for hours. This is usually when it starts at night. Sometimes you hear it arriving in the dark hours, after the afternoon’s light has disappeared even earlier than normal behind ominous grey-blue shadows. Other times, it steals in unseen, long after a cloudless sunset has promised a dry darkness. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Culture, Transport, Weather

The Caribbean and Crazy Cartagena

15 November 2010 in Colombia | No comments

(06:30, 15 November, mirrador of hostel, Taganga, Colombia) The wall I’m sitting on is only just wide enough for both of the bones in the bottom of my bum to be supported on its edges. Its comfortable enough and a bit precarious (I’ve already dropped my fork down to the roof beneath me) but you know the lengths I would go to for a view. I’m perched on the wall of my hostel’s highest patio, having had the lucky misfortune of being relegated to one of the hammocks strung up here due to a shortage of beds. Alicia, an American girl I have travelled from Cartagena with, was overjoyed at my enthusiasm – we are both likely to be sleeping in hammocks soon in National Park Tayrona but she doesn’t feel mentally prepared quite yet so she took the last free bed. But in fact it was much more comfortable than even I had expected once I had lined it with my sleeping bag and curled sideways with the left over bed sheet scrunched up under my head. The night before when I was woken up a million times by my noisy drunken dorm-fellows getting dressed and redressed (and asking my closed-eyed opinion on their colour coordination) until the early hours of the morning and ensuring that they were sufficiently plastered before joining in the Sunday night nightlife. But I slept like a baby up here in the breeze and had the pleasure of waking up to this. Read the rest of this entry »

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Cali Pics

14 November 2010 in Colombia | No comments

From Cali, posted by Stacey Hope-Bailie on 12/11/2010 (Showing 4 of 10 items)

“Photos from a crazy cool day trip to San Cipriano. After bussing it out towards the coast for a few hours, the only way to reach the little jungle town, which is not accessible by road, is to sit on a little wooden platform and be towed down the railroad tracks through the jungle by a motorbike. Then there are a couple of pics from the famous Cali Zoo. My camera died after the birds.

The prolonged journey to San Cipriano is part of “Waiting for the Rain” on the blog:
http://stacey.hopebailie.com/2010/11/21/waiting-for-the-rain/”