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In a few hours we'll be boarding our flight in San Francisco to fly home. That means this is our last update from our trip, but we'll let you know in a while how we're doing back home. The last days in the US we were as busy as Japanese tourists but we also relaxed in the sun.  See United States for this last update. For now: we'll see you all soon and we're looking forward to it!

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We've changed our scenery and language: from Spanish America to the United States of America.  Two very different worlds, but we like them both. One thing didn't change that much: the beautiful nature. You can read about it in a new update under United States.

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A short story this time about a short visit. We visited the Maya ruins of Copan in Honduras. Before we got there we travelled from El Salvador, through Guatemala to Honduras in one day.Right now we're quickly getting used to modern western life in the US, including a whole different climate: in one day we went from 30C degrees to -3C degrees!See ya!

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Some people told us there was nothing in El Salvador, we have a different opinion. It's a very small country without astonishing nature, but very interesting nonetheless with very friendly people. Read all about it under El Salvador. Just a few more days and we're in the US, looking forward to meet our friends there. In 2,5 weeks, we'll fly back on the 25th from San Francisco, via London to

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The last 2 weeks we've spent in Nicaragua. A former warzone, but now very much in peace, with friendly people, beautiful nature and remote places where we sometimes were the only tourists around. There was much to tell you about what we saw and did, so look under Nicaragua for a longer update, pictures and 2 movies. Right now we're enjoying our last 2 weeks in Latin America, visiting El Salvador

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We´ve exchanged modern Costa Rica for poor Nicaragua. Don´t worry, thewar is over for more than 15 years and according to some statistics thecountry is the second safest in the hemisphere, just behind Canada.Enjoy the update about Costa Rica and keep posting messages in ourguestbook! ;) It´s always the first page we look at when we haveinternet.

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We left Panama a bit earlier than expected, mainly due to the rain. We're now in Costa Rica, enjoying even more rain. In a new update under Panama you can read what we did the last days there.In the meantime we're travelling quickly through Costa Rica, as the cost of living is very high compared to what we've been used to so far and too high for our budget. We hope Nicaragua will be cheaper again

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Somehow it seems we're getting more and more in the relax mode lately. Every town we come to we say "let's do nothing for a few days". And Panama is the perfect country for that. You can now read about this easygoing-time in a new update under Panama.We hear about a lot of rain in Europe, well, that's the same here. It's rainy season and that means every day a tropical downpour in the

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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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