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what's your most memorable travel holiday / journey / adventure for the year 2005?

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gloriajames Premium account Joined: Sep 04 Points: 16785 Posts: 72 Posted: 2005-11-20 07:14:00    Hiya mates of Globo! The year is almost coming to an end and I just thought of finding out from you what was your most memorable travel holiday / journey / adventure for the year 2005? It could help me plan my hols for 2006!!! Go on... share with me! Thanks!!!! Gloria Reply    Reply with quote    Contact gloriajames   mortimer Premium account Joined: Jun 04 Points: 15075 Posts: 528 Posted: 2005-11-20 18:56:00    Hi Gloria My best experience this year was the trek to mount kilimanjaro in february! Yes, I know the report is still missing ;-) I could really clear my head and get down to earth firmly with both my feet and feel connected with reality, thats what made it that good! Hope it helps martin --- Today is the first day of the rest of your life, enjoy it! Reply    Reply with quote    Contact mortimer   ravinderkumarsi Premium account Joined: Aug 04 Points: 14003 Posts: 451 Posted: 2005-11-21 05:03:00    hii gloria , my most memorable holiday was at Manali at Himachal pradesh in india ,and i have written a report on it too. ravi --- at bangalore /back 2 globo after a long Reply    Reply with quote    Contact ravinderkumarsi   eirekay Premium account Joined: Aug 03 Points: 19539 Posts: 214 Posted: 2005-11-22 03:29:00    My best trip was to Belize and Guatemala, but I think it was the company! Life is so rushed ~ the opportunity to spend two weeks with my 18 year old son before he went away to college was terrific! Plus he insisted on handling all the luggage! I never touched a bag except in customs! Eire --- Life is not measured by the breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away. Profile Pic: Tikal, Guatemala Reply    Reply with quote    Contact eirekay   nedkelly Premium account Joined: Apr 04 Points: 5264 Posts: 81 Posted: 2005-11-22 13:38:00    Well its between two places in the states... but they are both memorable for mixed reasons. Washington D.C. was awesome as it was the first long haul trip after my accident, I saw all the tourist stuff, went to the wedding of my best friend from High School that was held outside in the snow and met a lady. The second Place is Houston/Galvaston in Texas, the main reason being that I surfed in bathwater warm water and met two of my alltime surfing heros, but the other bad memory of Texas was again the lady I met in D.C. but thats all we need to say about that. Had the best time here though , met the coolest people and ate the best food Ive had in ages!! I would definatly go back, just to surf with very cool people and eat great food. I supose I ought to write a report on them... Thanks for the Motivation Gloria!!!! Matt --- Do Not tip-toe through life to arrive safely at deaths door!! To surf or not to surf , flat? is the queastion. Reply    Reply with quote    Contact nedkelly   downundergal Premium account Joined: Jun 02 Points: 12936 Posts: 221 Posted: 2005-11-24 00:44:00    Wow how to choose there have been too many great memories. For 2005 my last jaunt through Cambodia/Laos/Thailand would certainly be up there amongst them. But then in other years who can not say Peru visiting Cusco and Machu Picchu & finishing in Rio would not be memorable - and I am sure there are many other globos on this site that would concur. But then travelling through the backroads of Mexico and staying with a mocal family.Hard to beat. Just being on the road is memorable. Kerrie --- Where to next? Reply    Reply with quote    Contact downundergal   frenchfrog Premium account Joined: Dec 05 Points: 26139 Posts: 60 Posted: 2006-01-08 10:40:00    Hi Gloria A bit late for a reply, but I just read your message, my best travelling experience was spending a night on Lake Titicaca with the local Indians of Amantani Island. Peru is a fantastic country, also seing Machu Picchu was fabulous. If you want to know more read Davidx reports, as he travelled with me. Good luck, also have consider Bhutan and Nepal? Isabelle --- "It is far more better to have seen it once than to have heard about it a thousand time." Mongolian proverb Reply    Reply with quote    Contact frenchfrog   jorgesanchez Premium account Joined: May 05 Points: 41629 Posts: 77 Posted: 2006-01-08 11:40:00    Hi Gloria, I also want to participate in this Travellers forum: During the year 2005 my most memorable, cherished and enjoyable journey was the three days that I spent in the highest waterfall in the world: Salto Angel, in Venezuela, in the Canaima Natural Park, during February. I just went there after looking at globo member wojtekd Web page his 7 wonders in the world and got inspiration in this particular page where he beautifully describes the marvel of Salto Angel: http://www.kontynenty.tpi.pl/s5enangel.htm Furthermore, it is so easy to get there and cheap! Just for about 200 US Dollars you get a seat in a small airplane, round trip from Ciudad Bolivar to Canaima Natural Park, three days with excursions including local guides, transport in canoes, 2 night accommodation (one in bed and the second in hammocks) and excellent tropical food. I wanted to write a report about Salto Angel, but I realized that wojteck already has a very good one in Globo, and it can not be improved! I rarely go back to the places where I have already been, but with Salto Angel I would like to make an exception. --- Bonum est faciendum et prosequendum, et malum vitandum. Reply    Reply with quote    Contact jorgesanchez   lukasdj Premium account Joined: Jun 03 Points: 1117 Posts: 23 Posted: 2006-01-20 17:10:00    Hi, My favourite travel during 2005 was to Boavista, an island of Capo Verde. If you want to relax it's the right place: small island, very few people, no technology, you can walk all alone for hours without meeting anyone. Nature is the absolute protagonist: sun all day long, clear ocean, gold beaches and beautiful desert. There's nothing you have to do, there are no fixed time-table. There aren't all the services that we are used to have at home, but anyway I think that the quality of life is very high there, without the rush of modern life. But now I have read that villages for tourists have been opened and there are new project of modernization. I hope they try to preserve Nature and inhabitant lifestyle... Luca :) Reply    Reply with quote    Contact lukasdj   rangutan Premium account Joined: Aug 04 Points: 34752 Posts: 1044 Posted: 2006-01-20 17:28:00    My favourite trips in 2005 were to the historical towns of Isny and both Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Internationaly, there was also a forced family visit to Texas which opened up a lot of great day trips outside Houston. All of which are nothing to brag of. Gloria, for some real good tips see also Amandas succesfull wish list: www.globosapiens.net/topic-top-3-place-that-you-have-been-to-or-would-like-to-visit..._36_1229_0000.html Now THERE are dream destinations! R'Rudi --- Rudolf "Rangutan" Graspointner Reply    Reply with quote    Contact rangutan