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by Joel Hauer | 2008/05/23
We are two of a kind! Answers are just the beginning, they only open more doors with further questions. Im sure the journey will be all worth it... It is a self fulfilling adventure...Life...
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Birthday:
06/17
About me
Until tomorrow, I´ll just keep moving on... do do do doooo...
Why I travel
Horribly itchy feet! And it´s great inspiration.
Travel style
I prefer to stay in one place and really get to know it than tick boxes in my Lonely Planet Guide, and just skim the surface. This is why I live abroad, and I travel in the same way.
Ideal place to watch the sunset
Santiago de Chile, the pollution brings out some fantastic colours!
Ideal place to watch the sunrise
Isla del Sol, Lake Tticaca
Before I die I'd like to
Do something good, which will have an impact long after I´m gone.
I felt the most immersed in a foreign culture when
The women of the Ecuadorian village sang sad Arrullos to bid me farewell, after a month-long stay in the jungle. We walked slowly round the whole village and it was pouring with tropical rain, they said it was their tears.
Let's collaborate
I write, photograph and paint, with varying degrees of success. I´m working with the Global Sustainable Tourism Alliance, researching sustainable tourism which benefits local, often indigenous communities in Ecuador, so might have some useful information.
Favorite artist(s)
Anyone who can make me stop and stare
Sports I do
Urgh. None.
I want to make a difference by
Creating something that wasn´t there before, or revealing to others something that always was there, but was hidden from sight. Figuring out how to do the same for myself.
Tunes I rock out to
I get really into local music, buy tons of CDs off street vendors, then play them when I get back home and realise that, out of context, the music sounds really rubbish.
Favorite books
Too numerous to list
My links
Looking to Meet:
Locals
Other Languages:
Spanish, Portuguese, rusty French
Favorite Places:
Esmeraldas, Ecuador; Marrakech, Morocco; San Francisco, California; Seville, Spain; Lisbon, Portugal; Chiloé, Chile; Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, and... the Lake District, UK.
Places I Want To Go:
Colombia, Havana, Salvador de Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, Moscow, Scotland.
Travel Blog
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06/19/2008 Bolivia 0
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p>La Paz is an absolutely insane city. It is th highest capital city in the world, which is enough to leave you literally breathless, and it is a bizarre mix of the old and the new, indigenous Aymara and Quechua culture, witches markets, churches, gringo bars and the most hideously...
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06/18/2008 Bolivia 0
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p>So I set sail across the deep blue lake, praying that Pachamama had had her fair share of human sacrifices lately and slightly regretting not having made more offerings to her (you are supposed to pour a little of the first of whatever you drink onto the ground in her...
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06/16/2008 Bolivia 1
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p>Sunday is a good day to be in Copacabana because hundreds of pilgrims flock to this tiny town to be blessed in a bizarre mix of catholic and indigenous Aymara rituals.
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p>The first I knew of this was a row of lorries, vans, minibuses, coaches and...
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06/10/2008 Bolivia 0
I jumped on a bus out of the dusty, sad, poverty-stricken little town of Uyuni and spent six hours crossing yet more desert to the mining town of Potosí. The landscape is dramatic and barren, but after a week in the desert, it all starts to look a bit the same. Also, the sheer drops by the side...
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06/10/2008 Bolivia 2
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p>I left Chile through the most well-trodden backpacker route ever - across the Bolivian border in a jeep, heading towards the Salar, or salt flat, of Uyuni, 4000 metres up on the Altiplano. The Altiplano does exactly what it says on the tin, it is high, and flat, and covers about a...
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06/05/2008 Chile 0
I hauled myself out of bed at 3.45am to catch the 4am bus out to El Tatio, a vast geyser field 4300 metres above sea level. It is a two hour drive from San Pedro, so tried to sleep, but the unfortunate combination of ancient minibus and unpaved dirt track full of huge chunks of rock meant I...
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05/29/2008 Chile 0
1) Mountains Mountains are massive. It sounds obvious, but I don't think you can actually grasp the concept of massive until you have seen some really big mountains. In Madrid you can squint on a sunny day and catch a glimpse of the Sierra. In Santiago, due to the pollution, it looks like...
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10/19/2008 Ecuador 0
As my little departamento quiteño does not contain a washing machine, I am left with two options: handwashing in the sink, or taking my clothes into one of the tiny shops around the city that will do the job for me.
I bravely bought a bottle of handwashing detergent, repeating to myself...
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10/19/2008 Ecuador 0
It all started with a trip to see a shaman. It's not your typical Thursday-night outing, by any means. But given that I'm in Quito, and he was in town giving a presentation on his community and the uses of the hallucinogenic herbal drink ayahuasca, it seemed like a natural place to end up....
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10/13/2008 United States 0
I'm gazing out of a window at a sky which has no clouds but is still fuzzy and murky and grimy nonetheless, despite the sunlight burning through right up ahead. Welcome to Texas.
I'm drinking a 12oz iced mocha because I've never had one of those before. And let's face it: it's not going...
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