Unlike Sheeta, Yonnie didn’t fall magically from a dirigible to meet me. And there weren’t evil sky-pirates out to capture us. But in many other ways, our 2010 trek to the high, lonely, lost Incan city of Choquequirao reminded me of Laputa of the Miyazaki film “Castle in the Sky”, with its dignified ruins and green lawns hidden in the soaring peaks of the Andes. It was a very special place.
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- How to trek the Markha Valley (with or without a kid) – and what to expect
- Raiders of Ojo del Albino
- Little Painted Desert
- To the Far East in Bolivia
- Bolivia: Leaving the Altiplano
- Daddy Daughter Road Trip in Hebei
- The High Cliffs of Huangyukou
- Sunrise above Shuitoucun
- Twin Otters in the Borneo Highlands
- Virginia & Maryland mini Road Trips
- Using film in Antarctica
- The Black Lake at Tarfala
- Great Basin National Park
- Seven Days Trekking in Iceland
- Hard Seat to Panda Town
- What’s it like on an Antarctic cruise?
- Black Rock Lava Flow
- Family camping at the beach
- Antarctica
- Bolivian Moonscapes and other strange places
- Solo camping…with a two year old child
- How a watch took me on a new adventure
- Once Upon a Time…Northern Vietnam
- Wreckage of the Southern Cloud
- Ramshead Range, Australia
- Mt Jagungal and the Rolling Grounds
- Death From Above: Eagle Hunting in Kyrgyzstan
- They call it the GRAND Canyon
- Biking down the east coast of …a lovely place
- 十一
- Three year old’s second bivvy
- (Not) storming Area 51
- Bolivia’s Uyuni Salt Flats
- Wheeler Peak
- Climbing Mt Kinabalu
- Eastern Iceland
- Lunar Crater
- Three year old’s first bivvy
- Flying with kids under two
- Northern Iceland
- The Last Litang Horse Festival
- Reykjavik and the Westman Islands
- Go For Main Engine Start
- The High Alps of Karakol
- Riding the rails from Oruro to Uyuni
- Parque Nacional Lauca in Chile
- Arequipa and the Colca Canyon
- One morning in Bali, on Provia
- The Vestmanna Cliffs
- Adobe Pyramids, the Donkey’s Stomach Ache, and some Really Racy Ceramics