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We're in Panama City at the moment, getting used to the whole different environment of Central America: warm and humid and a relaxed caribean atmosphere. It's time for our summer clothes again and Marloes gets almost frustrated from all the ladies here, dressed in nice summer dresses, sexy and on high heels....she wants to go shopping! But the backpacks are full :-(.You can read about our last (

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It took us some time to make a selection of our Galapagos pictures, but we hope you enjoy them. We have had a great time sailing for 8 days, watching and enjoying wildlife. The days before that we spent on the coast, but we'll save that for a later update.The Olympics start in 2 days, but we'll be facing our own olympic challenge by then....more about that when we're back!

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We have visited Peru in a 9-days flyby trip: 4 days in buses, 1 day in Lima, 2 days filled with culture and 2 days relaxing on the beach. But it was worth it and you can read about it in our update under Peru. In the meantime we've arrived in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and this afternoon we booked a trip to the Galapagos islands! As of this coming Friday we'll spend 8 days on a boat visiting the islands

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Did you ever wonder where the sun was born? Well, we went to see that place, Isla del Sol in Lake Titicaca. We also saw dense jungle, dangerous animals and survived a mountain bike tour. All that in a last update under Bolivia. For those who are interested, the July edition of National Geographic magazine has two interesting stories and great pictures about the places we've been to in

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The site has been down for 2 days due to server problems, and we´vebeen down as well...in the jungle! We´re still there enjoying the heatand the animals, so you´ll read more about that in another update. Fornow, you can read about our adventures of the past 2 weeks: thesilvermines in Potosi and the salt flats of Uyuni. Look under Boliviafor a new story and pictures.

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Today we're preparing to leave Sucre. We actually planned to go to Potosi today to visit the silvermines, but apparently there are roadblocks near Potosi so we can't enter the city. So we'll try tomorrow. We have enough things left to do in Sucre anyway (type this story, upload pictures, watch the soccermatch Holland-Romania in the Bolivian "Heineken Holland House"), so we don't mind. You'll find

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We have started our 3rd week of working in the orphanage, and we like it more every day! We know the kids better now, and they also realise that we're not there for just a few days. Look under Bolivia for an update with new pictures.We have already received a lot of donations, many many thanks for that! This week we'll discuss with the orphanage what exactly they need and then we'll let you

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We´ve posted a new story under Bolivia. We´ve finished our Spanish classes and started to work in the orphanage. That is very exhausting but also extremely rewarding! For the next four weeks we´ll be doing this work. Read more about it and please support the children.

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Since 5 days we´re in Sucre, the (official) capital of Bolivia. Mondaywe started our Spanish course, each in a different class. It´s good, welearn a lot and we enjoy the company of the other students. We alsoenjoy the sun and tonight a salsa class (for Marloes ;-)We´re staying with a nice host family, sunday we move to an apartmentwhere we´ll stay 4 weeks. Monday we start our volunteer work in

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We're at the end of our time in Argentina. We have had a wonderful time driving through beautiful scenery and tasting delicious steaks and wine. Now we're on our way to Sucre in Bolivia, to start our Spanish course and a month of volunteer work after that. More information about that soon.And by the way: we got a link on startpagina!http://wereldreis.startpagina.nl

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We have left Chile and are now in the country of wine and steak: Argentina. We have put 2 new updates live under Chile, about lakes, cycling, hiking, and a big rock in the sea. We're doing fine, our current hostel is not the nicest, but we have been very lucky so far with our sleeping places, it can't be perfect every day. We're going for some more winetasting now, adios!

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Hola! We're in Chile and enjoying the beautiful surroundings of the Lake district in the south. The weather is fine, but changing every day: rainy, sunny, cloudy, around 12 degrees. You'll find an update under Chile. And we even have a bonus for you: a video! Hasta luego!

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You can now find a story about our experiences with the Japanese and their habits under the Japan section. Meanwhile we're enjoying Chile; we've travelled to the south and visited the island of Chiloe, but more about that in a later update.

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Hola! After a very long trip (27 hours, of which 22 flying), we've arrived in Santiago, Chile. It's fall here, but still 25 degrees Celcius, great! we're relaxing a bit, going south in a few days. There's an update under Japan, ciao!

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We've arrived in Japan and are already almost leaving. We've posted a first update under Japan, another will follow later. It's an interesting country with even more interesting people. The language is sometimes a problem, but so far we managed to get around.

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We spent our last days in Kathmandu, visiting a Hindu cremation area and experiencing the Hindu Holi festival. See a shorter update this time under Nepal.

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We made it safely back to Kathmandu yesterday where we are now relaxing and realising what happened. We also had time to update the site, so you can now read updates and pictures under Nepal and Tibet. The stories are quite long, because so much interesting happened, we hope you don't get bored :-)

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The situation is even worse than we expected. We hear bits and pieces via people coming from the city. Local/national media is not saying much about it and tell the situation is under control. At the moment we're at Lhasa airport in a hotel and nothing serious is happening here; we're safe. Just a lot of police, even watching over our shoulder while we're trying to find news on the internet

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You may have seen something in the news about the critical situation in Lhasa these days. Monks and Tibetans are protesting against the Chinese and it's no longer peaceful.We were planning to go to Lhasa today, but that doesn't seem possible. Our plan is now to go to the airport and see if there is a safe possibility to go into Lhasa the next few days.Our flight back to Kathmandu is on Tuesday,

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We've arrived in Gyantse, a city with a beautiful monastery. But our guide told us today that the political situation in Lhasa is very tense at the moment and it's not sure if we can go there tomorrow. But we'll hear more tonight and hopefully continue our trip tomorrow. In the meantime we're enjoying the scenery, culture, people and the company of our group.

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Here's a short update, because we haven't had time yet to post the longer one with pictures. Yesterday we came back from a few very exciting days in Pokhara and Chitwan, you'll read more about that in about a week. And this morning we left for Tibet, where we were accepted to enter after numerous checks and border formalities. It's cold again, but the scenery is beautiful. Till next week!

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There is so much to tell about Nepal, Everest and our experiences, that we split it up in 2 new stories. Under Nepal you can find an update with pictures about our Everest trekking and another about Nepal in modern times. The pictures are now in the right order (thanks Os!), that's much better.By now we've moved from Kathmandu to Pokhara, to relax for a few days. It's much more cleaner, quieter

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But what we did do, you'll read and see here within the next few days. We're back in Kathmandu, taking a rest, recovering from the heavy trekking.

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When people in Kathmandu hear that we just arrived in Nepal for the first time, they all say "Welcome to Nepal". What else did we experience? You can read it under "Nepal". Tomorrow morning we leave for a 15-day trekking to the Mt Everest base camp, we're very excited about that. When we come back, we'll let you know how it was!

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It took some time to get everything in place, but now we managed to put the update for Hong Kong live, so look under Hong Kong for text and pictures! The pictures are still a bit mixed up, but don't mind that.By now we're in Kathmandu, Nepal, and experiencing a completely different world from HK. We booked the trekking to Mount Everest Base Camp today, leaving this Sunday for 15 days. We'll

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