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Events, Gatherings, Out & About => Members' Travels => Topic started by: Lucy1978 on October 11, 2006, 01:45:12
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Bulgaria at a place called Belogradchik, if you're ever in Bulgaria check it out, it's a cool place just to be.
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Our truck
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Beach in Turkey, this was about the first sunshine we'd seen since leaving Blighty.
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our first day in Jordan
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our first night in the desert. If you've never spent a night in a desert, try it before you die, it's amazing.
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me flying my Kite on the Beach in Aqaba, Jordan, that's Egypt you can see in the back ground.
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My parents hire car offroading in Jordan.
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Ice forming on a tree at high altitude Jordan.
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Sunset in Wadi Rumm, another amazing place to go and my first real taste of sand driving.
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just shows the scale of the place, us and some fellow travellers in Rumm
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jumped to Ethiopia now, a typical road
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road in Northern Kenya, did about 180kms (111 miles) of this with a broken spring :(
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and there's me fixing said spring.
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This was the main road in to Maralel from the north, the last stretch of about 700kms (450ish miles) off off tarmac driving and the first fuel stop for 800kms (500 miles).
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Sunrise over Killimanjaro
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A HUGE tree in the Mt. Elgon national park in Kenya.
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Sunrise over Kampala, Uganda
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speaks for it self
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We met this coming off the ferry accross the bottom of Lake Victoria, the track leading to the ferry puts some green lanes to shame.
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Senga Bay on Lake Malawi, just Chillin'
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View from Dedza Mountain in Malawi
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Classic Botswanan Sunset
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sunrise at Dune45 Nakluft nat. park, Sossusvlei, Namibia
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My better half on Dune 45
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Dune 45 in colour
these dunes are among the largest in the world though dune 45 at only 170m tall is one of the babies here.
and finally
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THE END?
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Those pics are amazing :shock:
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Those pics are amazing
I agree, absolutley FANTASTIC pictures! Looks like you had the trip of a lifetime. What a beautiful planet we live on!
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Wow that looked fantasic. Think it has to go on my list as a must do
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some amaizin pics there as said!
and what looks like an amaizin life experiance!
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climbingchris
pm sent
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As requested I've put some more pics from Namibia up here
http://www.climbingchris.f9.co.uk/namibia/Namibia%20Pics.html[/url]
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AWESOME :shock: