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look at all those ships!

yes I'm doing these again, I'm bored

 Deep in a remote mountain range in South America, a series of peaks straddling the border between Chile and Argentina. This area of virgin land is where dreams and adventure meet. Welcome to Patagonia. Whether you're an avid hiker, backpacker or hiker is one of the last unexplored places on earth. The best time for hiking or trekking is November to April, also keep in mind that the seasons are reversed in the Northern Hemisphere meaning warmer months of Patagonia are December, January and February with the coldest since June , July and August Patagonia can be divided into two sections: north and south. Northern Patagonia is best known as the "Lake District" flanked by majestic forests and lakes in Southern Patagonia is home to the Torres del Paine and the spectacular Mount Fitzroy. Hiking Destination 1: Torres del Paine, Patagonia, ChileTorres del Paine is a mountain in Chile, which has heights ranging up to 9000 feet and is one of the most beautiful treks in the world. The park consists of 450,000 acres and it is almost impossible to exhaust. The mountains are granite and can be reached by air or boat only. This section houses the city lands southern Patagonia to Punta Arenas, capital of Chile wool. While exploring the park be sure to check out the falls of Salto Chico and the Verde and Azul lagoons. The landscape of this mythical land is nothing short of breathtaking and the hike will be sure to Lago Grey please.The hike: This hike is well known as a backpackers' trek warming. "From across the grassland along the Grey Rao trails are well marked and in about half a day, you can reach Grey Glacier, where ice caves is sure to delight fans of the most intense adventures. The Torres del Paine Circuit Hiking: This is the "heart" of the ride picks up where the increase in Lago Grey left. This trek can take between 8 and 10 days with the terrain being, but predictable. This is not a hike for the faint of heart and one must be prepared for. Note: If you complete this circuit you will need a tent (unless accommodations are made before) and for a week of food. For hikers who want to take in all that nature has to offer wild herbs and greens can be found in the grasslands of the park. Organized Tours Trekking: Patagonia Antares Address: Barros Arana 111, Puerto Natales Phone: (56-61) 414611Andes Mountain Address: Eberhard 161, Puerto Natales Phone: (61) Patagonia 415749Mara Address: Armando Sanhueza 876, Punta Arenas Phone: (61) 710026 accommodation in Punta Arenas: Hotel Tierra del Fuego Address: Avenida Colón 716 Tel: (56-61) Address 226200Hotel Jose Nogueira: Bories 959. Punta Arenas Phone: (56-61) 248840Hiking Destination 2: Fitz Roy, Patagonia, Argentina Fitzroy Massif, is the highest point in the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares in southern Argentina. These majestic peaks are located near the small village of El Chalten. El Chalten can be reached by bus from the tourist center of El Calafate. Fitz Roy has many different routes with the most popular being that of the Franco-Argentine route. Climbing permits for this area are needed, however, can be easily obtained without charge at the center of the national park in El Chalten. (* Note: there is a small charge for entry into the main park - Parque Nacional Los Glaciares) Climbing Fitz Roy is better to do during the summer months southern hemispheres, from December to February. However, it is always wise to stay on top of that the weather in Patagonia Climate Change constant can be unexpected at times. This stretch of land is known to some as an imaginary country where panoramic views of granite peaks and famous lakes abound. Patagonia is one of those areas on our planet that is still dreaming, etc.. A place where you dream of exploring, met with the illusion of time and space without end. Fortunately for us this place is real and is only an adventure away.Getting ThereThese carriers fly into Buenos Aires, Argentina and Santiago, Chile Delta Air Lines: Reservations: 1-800-221-1212 http://www.delta. com / Continental Airlines: Reservations: 1-800-231-0856 http://www.continental.com/web/en-US/default.aspxAmerican Airlines: Reservations: 1-800-433-7300 http://www. aa. com / homePage.doLiteratureTrekking in the Patagonian Andes by Carolyn Patagonia by Gregory Crouch MccarthyEnduring

 Looking for great deals on the senior trip? Want to join a community of travelers to some of the characteristics and interests? The Internet offers a host of great websites that can help you enjoy travel during retirement years - Web sites that offer articles, links to promotions and special trips, and online communities where you can meet like-minded fellow travelers. Here are four good travel sites to get you started with to achieve the world's leading travel.Eldertreks (www.eldertreks.com) billed as "the world's first adventure travel company designed exclusively for people 50 and over." For this trip adventure website seniors is not only one of the demographics served. Seniors are the population served. The website adapts its adventure travel trips for those 50 and older who want to go out and feel the rush on occasion. The groups are small, allowing for a more cohesive experience, and travel to more than 50 countries. The adventures include almost everything outside the path of Kenyan wildlife safaris to hiking in Torres del Paine Patagonia.The Smarter Living Senior Travel (www.smarterliving.com / Senior) website is a much tamer in nature than an adventure site. The older site has both domestic and foreign travel offers, including transportation, restaurants and hotels. There are plenty of articles that can help you to creatively plan vacations to stretch your dollar. Travel tips tailored for seniors is very helpful, and you will find deeply discounted purchase travel deals allow you to travel more often.Elderhostel (www.elderhostel.org) is a website committed to lifelong learning. The site offers nearly 8,000 programs that allow you to travel and learn, firsthand, about almost everything from music to culture to history to the conservation of ecosystems. Programs are all-inclusive and include destinations in all 50 U.S. and 90 countries around the world. Offering special deals on shorter U.S. and Canada programs.Journey Woman (www.journeywoman.com) aimed at women who are over 50 years. This site is great because it gives good tips on solo trips, including safety tips. In so many places, it is important for women to be cautious, and the articles on this site, you can learn what you need to know to avoid unpleasant mistakes. Moreover, inspiring stories of fellow senior travelers lady lend encouragement to the adventurous girl at heart who want to climb Kilimanjaro or enjoy a spa vacation. This site shows that the solo journey of all ages is a viable and meets alternative.

 It is estimated that only one percent of the foreigners who go to visit the north of Lima, Peru. (Paracas and Nazca are south of Lima, Lake Titicaca, Cuzco, Machu Picchu and Inca other sites are east / southeast of the Andes.) Probably only about one percent of that one percent to make the Chachapoyas fortress Kuelap.Claims been made, Kuelap above the Utcubamba River Valley, that it is the largest building of all ancient civilization, with three times as much stone as the greatest of the Egyptian pyramids. The walls are very large, up to 19 meters high, and enclosing a settlement about 600 meters long, 100 in width along the end of a natural ridge. but I believe that Kuelap was a fortified city, not a single building. (And I might mention that the pyramid in Cholula, near Puebla, Mexico is also larger than the Egyptian pyramids.) In the fort are some foundations and walls of 420 round (ed) Building and five rectangular. (Some think the latter are Inca constructions. The site was soon abandoned after the overthrow of the Spanish Empire and the ruins of the Inca were not the attention of the outside world called to 1843. Later, Adolf Bandelier have visited the site.) There. is a reconstructed house, complete with thatched roof (see accompanying photo), archaeologists have concluded there were three castes - workers, aristocrats and warriors - among the "Cloud Forest People Kuelap may have been a sanctuary such as Machu Picchu or have. for that matter, European castles, even though access to Machu Picchu from above and the only way is to get Kuelap, climbing to walls, from which arrows and threw stones down.Other could be used as the outer walls, the most impressive remaining structure is the north tower, where a transaction was found by projectiles. The stairs to the platform on which it is off limits.A number of lamas change location. I have a photo of two young ones.Below including the fortress, near some tables, sheltered by a thatched roof, is an advisory body which is rather minimal information available. I could not estimate population. Construction began on the 9th of Kuelap Century AD, long before the rise of the Inca Empire, with further strengthening and development. The Kuelap Chachapoyans surrendered to the Incas to 1470th My guess is that the tanks ran dry during a drought. There was room inside the fortress to grow food, and it is incomprehensible to me that an army could have overrun the site without heavy artillery. There are now three entrances, but it was only a long with a dam, only one person wide (that is, thrown a long distance with walls on both sides about 15 feet high form the top, the arrows and stones make each violation could outer gate). Kuelap is above the Utcubamba valley, between the Utcubamba and Maranyon (a major source of the Amazon, in the Utcubama flows on the long road to the Atlantic Ocean from a hundred miles of the Pacific). The height is 3,000 meters (almost 10,000 feet) and the ascent from the parking lot to the building entrance (10 soles - about $ 3.25US) and from there into the Citadel, a challenge for anyone present to the unaccustomed to the altitude. Kuelap is reportedly five kilometers from the lovely town of Tingo. Maybe the five kilometers in the air. The lodge where we stayed Choctamal (see below) was about ten minutes drive to (not in height direction) and Kuelap, which was visible from the lodge there was another fifteen minutes and 10-15 minutes walk up.There also a small settlement called Mary, who has built a craftsman's Co-op Store from El Instituto Italo-Peruvian) between Tigo and Kuelap done selling fairly simple patterns of weaving on backstrap looms (larger than the backstrap looms, with whom I trusted southern Mexico and Guatemala Clock) and some pedal-ones (such as in the weaving village in Oaxaca, where a friend taught me to weave once upon a time, and I stayed longer than one week). Some leaders say that there is no accommodation facility as provided Chachopoyas Kuelap (25 km) and only a hiking and mule track from Tigo.The Choctamal Lodge very good food and a room with four beds. More specifically, we are a bedroom with three beds, plus a lobby with had one. The first night was hot water. There was no electricity either night, for the power plant in Tigo was down, waited a few. Belts are from somewhere other shipped, so the city had no electricity.We had dinner by candlelight and there was a range of candles and matches for the room I discovered that I have to read 5 candles - literally that. Light five candles) Choctamal The Lodge promotes itself as a place of Marvelous Spatuletail (Hummingbird) with a Web site www.marvelousspatuletail.com (see what a good picture of the pair of "leveling", Keelung saw one to the hills one morning BTW). The staff seems not to have thought that the hummingbird feeders need to be filled in order to attract the hummingbirds to make the paying customers. Sitting outside our room (overlooking an empty hot tub), we had very close views sword bills to feeding on Datura flowers. Even with extravagantly long beaks, the hummingbirds had yet to dive into the pitcher flowers. Flowers and pollinators (the sword bills) significantly enhanced synergistically to wear with the flower in a position, the weight of the hummingbird. (The rate for a double room at the lodge is Choctamal $ 40us, with $ 6 for breakfast, $ 8 each for lunch and dinner.)