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februari 2023 - februari 2024

Cass and Mike's Year Long Adventure Meer informatie

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- 17 mrt. 2023
- 🌧 17 °C
- Hoogte: 2.628 m
- Colombia Distrito Capital de Bogotá Bogotá D.C.Alcaldía Mayor Plaza de Bolivar 4.598333, -74.0766674°35’54” N 74°4’36” W
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Bogota
17 maart 2023, Colombia ⋅ 🌧 17 °C
After a much needed rest day yesterday (had a throbbing headache and fatigue I couldn't get rid of - I put it down to the altitude), we finally left our hostel to explore Bogota. We wandered around La Candelaria, where we got a bit lost, had a look at some markets and the Museo de Botero. We later joined a food walking tour where we tried: empanadas (still not a huge fan), fresh sugar cane juice, capybara (not bad) and obleas caseritas.

Tomorrow we fly to Quito before we head to the Galapagos!Meer informatie
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What?! You ate capybara? Aren't they like your favorite animal? [Nathan]
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Reiziger We tried capybara and still my favourite! 😂
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- 18 mrt. 2023
- 🌧 15 °C
- Hoogte: 2.818 m
- Ecuador Provincia de Pichincha Centro Histórico Quebrada de la Cantera -0.220157, -78.5123270°13’13” S 78°30’44” W
Dag 30
Quito*
18 maart 2023, Ecuador ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
Flew to Quito for a night before we head to the Galapagos Islands.
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- 26 mrt. 2023 12:18
- ☀️ 29 °C
- Hoogte: 12 m
- Ecuador Provincia de Galápagos Puerto Ayora -0.746295, -90.313550°44’47” S 90°18’49” W
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Puerto Ayora, Galapagos Islands
26 maart 2023, Ecuador ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
We just finished a week of sailing around the Galapagos Islands! We started in San Cristobal, and sailed to Espanola, Floreana, Santa Cruz, Santiago and Genovesa Island, before finishing on Baltra, where we disembarked this morning.

Each day on the cruise was jam packed with activities and felt like you lived multiple days within a single day - we often started with a 6am walk or snorkel, followed by breakfast, a mid-morning activity (walk or snorkel), lunch and siesta, and then afternoon activities (again, usually a walk and snorkel/water sports).

Highlights of the trip include:
- 3 three course meals a day and snacks after every excursion
- Spotting flamingos and being super close to them (less than 2m!)
- Swimming with sea lions, turtles, eagle rays, penguins, galapagos sharks and hammerhead sharks
- Making a quick escape from the water when one of the sailors on our boat saw a bull shark (bigger than our dinghy) in the same area we were snorkelling in
- Watching galapagos sharks hunting fish right off our boat
- Visiting the giant tortoises
- Watching the courtship of frigate birds (the ones with the big red pouch)
- Being chased by sea lions (an alpha male was chasing two males from his beach, those two males ran after us)

We're now in Puerto Ayora (the biggest town in the Galapagos) where we will relax for a few days before we fly back to the mainland.Meer informatie
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Reiziger Sounds like you had a great time on the cruise around Galapagos.
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Reiziger We had the best time! So cool seeing so many animals
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Reiziger Probably the most jealousy inducing part of your trip for me... 🫤 You've had your fun guys, time to come back
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- 28 mrt. 2023
- ⛅ 28 °C
- Hoogte: 8 m
- Ecuador Provincia de Galápagos Puerto Ayora -0.761103, -90.3331810°45’40” S 90°19’59” W
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Tortuga Bay, Galapagos Islands*
28 maart 2023, Ecuador ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Started our last day in the Galapagos with an early morning jog to Tortuga Bay. Saw marine iguanas and sea turtle nests.
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- 30 mrt. 2023 12:09
- Hoogte: 2.851 m
- Ecuador Provincia de Pichincha Itchimbía Ichimbia -0.215, -78.5083330°12’54” S 78°30’30” W
Dag 42
Quito
30 maart 2023, Ecuador
We flew into Quito from the Galapagos yesterday and instantly felt the altitude (we went from sea level to 2,800m in about 2 hours). We spent the day slowly exploring Quito's Historic Centre.
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- 31 mrt. 2023
- 🌧 12 °C
- Hoogte: 3.429 m
- Ecuador Provincia de Pichincha Machachi Santa Ana Río Pugchi -0.503456, -78.4709410°30’12” S 78°28’15” W
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Secret Garden Cotopaxi*
31 maart 2023, Ecuador ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
We spent a couple of nights at Secret Garden Cotopaxi, near Cotopaxi National Park, where we fully unplugged (there is no wifi or signal out there). On our first day, we did a short waterfall hike which mainly involved walking through rivers.

Our second day was spent hiking to the summit of Pasochoa Volcano. We started at an elevation of 3600m and would increase to 4200m at the summit. I found breathing at the high altitude, the lack of breaks and pace of the hike really difficult and turned around early - this was the first hike ever that I haven't finished. Mike kept going and made it to the summit, but agreed that it was a challenging hike.Meer informatie
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- 5 apr. 2023 10:59
- 🌩️ 7 °C
- Hoogte: 3.724 m
- Ecuador Provincia de Cotopaxi Cuizán Quilotoa -0.863076, -78.9161650°51’47” S 78°54’58” W
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Quilotoa Loop
5 april 2023, Ecuador ⋅ 🌩️ 7 °C
We just finished up the 3 day 38km hike from Quilotoa to Sigchos called the Quilotoa Loop. We started at Quilotoa and were lucky enough to have the Quilotoa Crater to ourselves before we started the 3 day hike through the Ecuadorian Andes.

Each day, we passed through amazing landscapes of rural farms and villages on the hillsides of the Andes and ascended and descended up and down to the Sigui/Toachi Canyon. The steep climb in/out of the canyon, combined with the 3500m+ altitude, made this one of the hardest hikes we've completed. Despite the difficulty, we saw beautiful scenery, lucked out with clear weather (considering it's currently the wet season) and had a great time exploring the Andean hills.Meer informatie
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- 7 apr. 2023
- Hoogte: 2.842 m
- Ecuador Provincia de Pichincha Centro Histórico Quebrada del Tejar -0.221114, -78.5149750°13’16” S 78°30’54” W
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Good Friday in Quito
7 april 2023, Ecuador
We spent Good Friday in Quito watching the Procession of Jesus of Great Power in the Historic Centre. This involves men and women dressing in purple gowns and walking for 3 hours to repent for their sins. We were told that their sins could be anything from swearing or stealing, to more serious crimes like murder. There were thousands of people taking part in the procession which was crazy to witness.

In the afternoon, we went to the Middle of the Earth Monument (which actually isn't the true middle of the earth but they didn't realize until after they built the monument).Meer informatie
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- 12 apr. 2023
- ☁️ 32 °C
- Hoogte: 91 m
- Peru Loreto Iquitos -3.742109, -73.2523163°44’32” S 73°15’8” W
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Iquitos
12 april 2023, Peru ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C
We spent a day in Iquitos en route to the Amazon Rainforest in Peru. Iquitos is the biggest city in the world which is inaccessible by car (i.e you can only get there by plane or boat). Iquitos looks and feels a lot like like a city in South East Asia rather than South America because of all the motorbikes and tuktuks that fill the streets.

We explored Plaza de Armas and Belen Markets and went to Ikiitu for dinner, which is where Zac Efron went to when he went to Iquitos, to try some traditional Amazonian food.Meer informatie
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- 15 apr. 2023
- ☁️ 29 °C
- Hoogte: 103 m
- Peru Loreto Saquena -4.531192, -73.4548634°31’52” S 73°27’18” W
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Libertad Jungle Lodge, Ucayali
15 april 2023, Peru ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
We spent 4 days in the Amazon Rainforest at Libertad Jungle Lodge. The lodge is a community project which is owned and run by the Libertad Village, where all profits go back to improving the living standards of families in Libertad Village.

We visited during the wet season, which meant river levels were really high (and continually rising) and we had to visit most places by boat. We spent our days searching for monkeys, sloths and dolphins, fishing for piranha and exploring the floating forest. At night, we found baby caimans, tarantulas and capybaras.Meer informatie
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