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Galapagos Islands Cruise: Alan's dream
Alan Lyall has just got back from a dream trip to the magical Galapagos Islands, where he cruised for a week on the Letty, one of the first class Eric, Flamingo and Letty series of boats. Check his photos on Facebook, and read his colourfu...
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Ecuador: Part II of Alan's tales from Ecuador
Alan’s second Ecuador blog sees him think he’s back in Scotland, take a taxi through the clouds and scour Cuenca for a cannily-priced Panama hat…. Alan writes: "Cuenca is a beautiful city in the southern Ecuadorean Andes with a w...
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Ecuador: Alan's travel tales from Ecuador
Andean Trails’ Alan reports back after his first week exploring Ecuador, which has seen him befriend ice cream sellers, cross the equator three times in a day and sleep in a hotel with a plane in the garden…….. Alan write...
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Revenge is a dish best served cold
¡Raton! ¡Raton! There was hardly time to translate as tent mate Ezequiel sprang towards me wielding his metal water bottle, shouting ‘Raton!’. The first bottle blow was to my knee, the second to my toe. Eze now decided to tu...
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Darwin's Galapagos Island Test
An irreverent look by Andean Trails’ Tom Shearman at how his visit to the Galapagos Islands almost proved his own Darwinian proof of the evolutionary pudding. Tom writes: "Gradual, non-random process by which biological traits become ...
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Peru - Top 10 things to know before going on holiday to Peru
Apprehensive about travelling to South America? Or just want to be prepared? Here we give our top advice on how to make sure you land on your Peru holiday forewarned and forearmed.... Money Take twice as much money and half the amount of c...
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