Camping in Camelford, North Cornwall
Just spent a great surfing weekend in Camelford (not toe), we stayed in a great campsite Kings Acre Touring Park, don’t let the name put you off, it’s a nice sized site in a lovely location.
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20 Places Threaterned by Global Warming
Holiday operator On The Beach have a blog and they’ve been writing a few interesting posts of late, one of
the most interesting was 20 Cities, Islands & Countries Threatened By Global Warming, which highlights many of the places that are facing devastation if global warming continues, some of which are closer to home than you might think.
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Friday Photo - Venezuela School Bus
Keeping on the Venezuelan theme, another photo from the fantastic country. Old American school buses are the main way to get around in Venezuela, travelling in one is a great experience, each one more elaborately customised and music pumping than the last. This one was photographed just before leaving the fantastic Puerto Columbia.
Friday Photo - Waterfall, Canaima National Park, Venezuela
One of many fantastic waterfalls you’ll see on a boat trip through Canaima National Park to see Angel Falls
Go to Singapore Zoo
Singapore is a popular stop off between Indonesian and Thailand and the UK and Australia, but if your looking for things to do, make sure you visit Singapore Zoo.
The best thing about Singapore Zoo is the lack of cages or fences, the majority of animals are only separated from visitors by deep ditches. As the monkeys and orang utan’s swing freely above you it feels as though fearsome wolves could easily leap out at you and at any moment the rhinos could charge un-expectantly through the the vegetation . The 28 hectare ‘open zoo’ has over 3,200 mammals, birds and reptiles and fishes.
Filed under Things to do in Singapore, Wildlife, nature | Comments (2)Friday Photo - Amazon Tree Frog, Brazil
While camping out in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, our guide woke us all up in the middle of the night, just in time to get a great close up photo of this tree frog, before he grabbed it and carefully chucked it back into the darkness.
Filed under Brazil, Photos, Wildlife | Comment (1)Spaghetti and Cheese Ice Cream, Merida, Venezuela
Things to do in Merida - Eat strange flavoured ice cream
Merida has an ice cream parlour that boasts the greatest number of different flavours of ice cream in the world. I tried spaghetti n cheese and the salmon ice cream before some strawberry to take the strange taste away.
On the wall there’s a list of all the different flavours that they have offered over the years, unfortunately the world cup 98 flavour wasn’t available, wonder what that tasted of?
The likeness to the flavours is quite amazing, give it a go!
Filed under Highlights, Off the beaten track, Things to do in Venezuela, Venezuela | Comment (1)Things to do in Jericoacara, Brazil
We did enjoyed our visit to Jericoacara in Brasil, however it was maybe a bit to trendy for our liking and the conditions weren’t very good for beach action (the wind was too strong) but we still found plenty to do with our selves.
1. Climb up and then jump down the sand dunes
As the sunsets join the masses and climb to the top of the main sand dune that sits to the left of the main beach. It makes for a dramatic scene as shadows lengthen and the wind sweeps across the rippling sand.
Take a ride on the world’s longest cable car, Merida, Venezuela
Reaching an altitude of 4765 m. Merida’s cable car is the highest in the world.
The cable car consists of four sections for a total length of 12.5 km. The altitude at the top is higher than any point in Europe and USA excluding Alaska.
The first section starts at Barinitas station (1577m) the corner of the square with the fountain, it ends up at La Montaña station (2577 m.), go for a walk around and gaze upon the beauty of Merida sat far down below. Hopefully you wont be feeling too light headed at this point.
The next two stages reach La Aguada station (3452 m.) and Loma Redonda station (4045 m.), if your unlucky it may leave you feeling altitude sick, but fingers crossed you’ll be alright and be able to warm yourself with a tasty cup of chocolate.
Have a real good rest at this point, walk very slowly, don’t run around and get used to the altitude as much as you can before taking the final assent.
The final stage takes you to Pico Espejo (Mirror Peak - 4765 m.) where you can walk outside amongst the snow. Cross your fingers again and hope you have a clear day and are able to see all around, we didn’t’ but enjoyed watching the Venezuelans (many of them would never have seen snow before) play in the snow as we slowly walked around.
