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Read more about the article Day 6: Shut Your Eyes And Hope For The Best

Day 6: Shut Your Eyes And Hope For The Best

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:6 January 2009
  • Post category:Peru/South America/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:8 Comments

Got into Lima at 8am this morning. It was a rollercoaster ride last night, if you tried to stay awake it was just a non-stop cavalcade of terror as the…

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Read more about the article Day 5: Bo Diddily Crazy

Day 5: Bo Diddily Crazy

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:5 January 2009
  • Post category:Chile/Peru/South America/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:2 Comments

The maid was supposed to wake me at 6.30, but didn't. Luckily, by some miracle I woke up myself at 7am after clocking up a whole 3 hours of sleep.…

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Read more about the article Day 4: Carry On Up The Andes

Day 4: Carry On Up The Andes

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:4 January 2009
  • Post category:Bolivia/Chile/South America/The Odyssey Expedition
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Arrived, shaken but not stirred, in Oruro, Bolivia. I felt the best course of action was to find out when the first bus for Chile left - 11.30am - and…

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Read more about the article Day 3: On The (Bolivian) Buses

Day 3: On The (Bolivian) Buses

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:3 January 2009
  • Post category:Argentina/Bolivia/South America/The Odyssey Expedition
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Another very early morning and after joining me on the bus to San Salvador De Jujuy (pronounced HooHoy, which is something I'd expect Mr Burns to say when he answers…

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Read more about the article Day 2: Global Positioning System

Day 2: Global Positioning System

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:2 January 2009
  • Post category:Argentina/Paraguay/South America/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:4 Comments

Arriving at some ungodly hour in Posadas, we took a taxi over the Paraguayan border.  And back.  I would love to tell you how much fun and how interesting Paraguay…

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Read more about the article Day 1: Hey-Ho LET’S GO!

Day 1: Hey-Ho LET’S GO!

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:1 January 2009
  • Post category:Argentina/Favourite/Paraguay/South America/The Odyssey Expedition/Uruguay
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7.30am.Woke up to find that sand demons had filled my teeth with silica gel and that a brass band had barged its way into my brain and had started to…

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Read more about the article This is THE ODYSSEY!

This is THE ODYSSEY!

  • Post author:Leo Skelly
  • Post published:31 December 2008
  • Post category:Featured/South America
  • Post comments:6 Comments

The Odyssey is an epic adventure, a world first, a race against time, a year (or two) of living dangerously!! Scouse film maker Graham Hughes' barking, madcap adventure TO EVERY…

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