Family from Oz travelling through South America, Mexico and the US.
In and around South America
We are a family of four travelling for 12 weeks to South America, Mexico and the USA.
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler familyfromoz
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Weekend in Noosa before the real adventure begins
It was great to return to our favourite Aussie destination for a couple of days R&R before heading overseas. Noosa was sparkling and gorgeous a... Continue reading »
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Welcome to Disneyland and Fat City USA!
Beautiful weather and great fun at Disney land with our two boys - 8 and 10 years. Best fun was the Pirates of the Caribbean, Space Mountain and As... Continue reading »
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B.A is fantastic and thank goodness for that after travelling for 26 hours to get here!
The trip from LA to BA was 26 hours door to door , via Mexico City and Santiago Chile. We were VERY tired when we arrived but managed to arrange a... Continue reading »
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Sensational Iguazu. Absolutely Spectacular!!
We feel like we have spent way too much time on aeroplanes in the last week or so...but it was worth it to fly to Iguazu for a couple of days. The... Continue reading »
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Forget the Amazon, the Piranhas are in Santiago!
We had to overnight in Santiago because we could not fly directly to La Paz from B.A. Our impression on reflection is that Santiago is a... Continue reading »
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Altitude sickness in La Paz
As Australians accustomed to living at the sea, we were a little concerned about flying into La Paz. It is at 3460m approx above sea level...the hi... Continue reading »
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Resting in Copacabana
Our bargain bus trip to Copa saw us rushing out of our hotel, hustled along by the operator (who later made us wait interminably breathing exhaust... Continue reading »
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On the shores of Lake Titikaka
We travelled by bus from Copacabana to Puno on Sandy's birthday, crossing from Bolivia to Peru on the way. Lots of Alpacas to see and of course, th... Continue reading »
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Christmas Day at Machu Picchu...and the beautiful Sacred Valley
Before leaving Australia on this trip we knew we were going to be in Machu Picchu for Christmas Day and were worried that the crowds would be awful... Continue reading »
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How could we forget to mention Cusco?
After the Sacred Valley we returned to Cusco for a few days. We stayed at Nino´s hotel which we thoroughly recommend. It is hidden behind an old gr... Continue reading »
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A Tale of Two Cities - Mexico City.
We thought that staying in Mexico City over NYE would be mad, bad and dangerous...but instead it was quiet, closed and empty. The main plaza was ve... Continue reading »
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From luxury to lost .... but everything turned out fine !
If you want to really travel in luxury jump on an ETN bus ! Wow, these things are amazing.. only 24 passengers, more room than flying at the pointy... Continue reading »
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On Mexican Time in San Miguel
I first read about San Miguel de Allende about 10 years ago? when reading the popular book by Tony Cohen ...On Mexican Time. This book was the firs... Continue reading »
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Taxco - a shopping temptation too strong to resist!
We made our way to Taxco via bus from San Miguel and via Mexico city. It was a long day, and an early start.
Taxco is in a stunning ... Continue reading »
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What are we doing here???
Arriving at a strange hotel, in a strange city, late at night is often not the best way to start in that place...and being tired and hungry af... Continue reading »
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Too much time in Oaxaca
Arriving in Oaxaca we met the taxi driver from Siberia because he sure didn't know the main street in this (small) city.We spent ages trying t... Continue reading »
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Beautiful San Cristobal de las Casas
Arriving at San Cristobal de las Casas at about 7am after the dreadful overnight bus trip from Oaxaca was like arriving into a fairyland. Our taxi... Continue reading »
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Journeying from San Cristobal to Agua Azul, Misol-Ha and Palenque
After chatting with some fellow travellers on a day out to Chamula village near San Cristobal we cancelled our dreaded second overnight bus trip an... Continue reading »
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A mad chase to catch the bus!
You know how you have a time in your head and without checking are convinced that it is true. Then you realise later that that time was for another... Continue reading »
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Hitting the beach in Playa del Carmen...but is this Mexico or USA???
Arriving in Playa del Carmen is an interesting experience. On the one hand we were delighted to arrive at the beach after 2 months away from the co... Continue reading »
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Paradise Found
After travelling to Tulum from Playa del Carmen by bus we grabbed a cab and made the 12 km journey back up the highway to Bahia Punto d... Continue reading »
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Stopping over in Cuba, New Mexico
We left our overnight Cancun hotel at 4am (ugh!) to catch the 7am flight to the USA - Alberquerque via Dallas. By the time we get to Alberquerqu... Continue reading » -
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Telluride is tops!
Telluride is picture postcard perfect in almost any weather. When we first arrived the last big dump of snow had been about 12 days ago and it was... Continue reading »
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A cosy casita in snowy Santa Fe.
Santa Fe reveals itself in a plain below snow covered mountains but hey where is all the colour? We had in mind a very colourful place wi... Continue reading »
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Happy to be home!
We arrived at Brisbane airport in the early hours of the morning but didn't emerge from customs until about 9.30 am after quarantine declarations for... Continue reading »
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