The Trip
Start in Anchorage and head to Grande Prairie, Alberta where my mother is from. Then head down to LA and take the Pan American highway to Argentina.
- Some of the places I want to see are:-
- Inca and Maya ruins
- Machu Picchu
- Antartic
- Some of the things I want to do are:-
- Visit family in the US and Canada
- Stay in a Eco lodge
- Go White water rafting
- Some of the things I want to accomplish on this trip are:-
- Learn to speak Spanish.
- Start a regular yoga routine without having to go to the gym to do it.
- Get all the photos I am scanning labelled and sorted out to do an online album.
The Map
I have just done a really rough outline of my itinerary as I haven't started researching everything that I want to see yet. This will be refined in the coming months.
ps.if anyone know how to make a map interactive please let me know.
The countries and some of the things that I want to see are below:-
- Alaska 30 August 2008
- Canada
- Grande Prairie to visit family
- Drive down through Alberta to visit family
- US - leave my bike and go back to work for three months
- LA to visit my cousin and his wife
- Mexico
- Maya sites in the Yucatan
- Whale watching in the Baja
- Guatemala
- Guatemala City, Volcan Pacaya (active)
- Antigua, Easter Celebrations
- Quetzaltenango
- Semuc Champey
- Tikal ruins
- Belize
- Cayo Distrist (Belmopan) Caving and underground tubing
- Eco-lodge Chan Chich
- Hopefully cousin will come down from the US for a visit
- Honduras
- Bay Islands, cheap scuba diving but sounds like Bay of Islands where I am from
- Parque Nacional Pico Bonito, armadillos and class 4 white water rafting
- El Salvador
- Lago de Coatepeque, crater lake with hot springs
- Nicaragua
- Granada and San Juan del Sur (surfing)
- Costa Rica
- Parque Nacional Tortuguero, turtles laying eggs Mar-May
- Puerto Viego, beaches and nightlife
- Volcan Arenal, active volcanoe
- Reserva Santa Elena, virgin cloud-forest?
- Orosi, hotsprings
- Panama
- Catch a ferry from Ecuador
- Panama City and the Canal
- Kuna Yala, indigenous islands
- Chiriqui Highlands, rare quetzal
- The Canopy Tower, unusual eco-lodge
- Ecuador
- Galapagos Islands
- Amazon Basin
- Banos, white water rafting
- Peru
- Cusco (white water rafting) and Machu Picchu, but might have to save it for another time due to it being the rainy season.
- Nazca Lines, geometric shapes and animal figures drawn into the ground.
- Bolivia
- La Paz, highest Capital City in the world
- Isla del Sol
- Potosi, highest city in the world and silver mining
- I would like to go to Bolivia but the guide I have says that that between Nov-Mar the rains make the roads unpassable
- Chile
- Lake District, volcanic hot springs
- Parque Nacional Laguna San Rafael, icebergs
- Easter Island
- Valparaiso, beaches
- White water rafting in Bio Bio and Futaleufu
- Argentina
- San Antonia de Areco
- Glaciar Perito Moreno, advancing glacier fragmenting into great chunks of ice
- I would like to get down to the Antartic from here
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