Round the world with Michaela and Tom

The day is nearly here...19th October 2010 and we are going to be heading off on our travels round the world!! It seems like we have been saving and planning forever and the day is finally getting close.

We start of in S.America (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay) then head to Australia, South East Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam) then China, Japan and India wohoooooooooooo!!!!

We are going to try and keep a blog of stuff we get up to and pics off course - we will see how internet access goes and how much time we get to write on it!!

YOU CAN CLICK ON EACH PICTURE TO MAKE IT BIGGER AND YOU CAN COMMENT BELOW EACH POST - A FEW PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING!!





Saturday, 23 October 2010

Snapshot of Quito

Its been a busy few days in Quito!! We arrived in the hostel after 15 long hours of travelling to find that reception was on the 5th Floor (obviously no lift and 2 heavy rucksacks!!). What kind of eejit would put reception up there!! Well when we arrived at the top the answer was clear - what a view!!!


As we mentioned before, we headed out as soon as we landed, to experience the Quito nite life and the next day headed to see the famous Mittad del Mundo - which to be honest is not really the centre of the world just a point on the equator!! So a bit of a Gringo (spanish for tourist) gimmick! Oh well we have the pic!!So our first big day of adventure was yesterday when we headed with a gang of backpackers from the hostel to the 3rd highest volcano in the world, Cotopaxi! It was a tough but amazing day with all four seasons experienced!!! We arrived early in the morning and made the trek up to the base of the glacier at 4810m. We were really lucky as a group as no-one suffered any serious side effects from the altitude but it definitely made climbing pretty hard!! We could only climb in 5min bursts and then rest for 5!! On the way up we had hail stones and when we arrived at the lunch lodge we could hear thunder and lightning!

After a mighty feed and great craic with the gang we came out for the descent and the place was covered in snow!!! The guide said that he hadnt seen snow like it for 4yrs!!! So we put on every layer we had and started the descent!!



When we reached the lower grounds the snow was nowhere in sight and so we cycled the final 20km downhill. The sun came out and the views were amazing and so we had to take off every layer that we had put on only 1hr before!! It was a great finish to a great day :o)



There are some more pics on facebook and for those of you who are not in that world here is the link for you to access the album...
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=322088&id=815160759&l=05f6e76a62

We´ve added a new page on the blog called the Rolling Stone - click on the link on the right hand column...
Posted by at

2 comments:

  1. Tierna25 October 2010 at 18:24

    Tom the mask on the facebook pics was an improvement for ya!& Claire wants to know who the guy 2nd from the back on the left handside of the pic with u all at the table is?? & is Ireland on his schedule for travelling? lol

    ReplyDelete
  2. Unknown27 October 2010 at 17:23

    aw look you and tom on opposite sides of the world!! :) looks awesome!! Tierna I was totally gonna go for the same mask joke!! :)

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)