Pictures from Travel-Stained Life
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Things we learned: Currency: Rand (7.5 Rand=$1 USD) Cities Visited: Kalk Bay, Stellenbosch, Cape Town There are 11 official languages in South Africa and we met many people who spoke at least two of them. Afrikaans is the language of the Dutch settlers who came to the country (I didn’t know this until our visit). [...]
Consider this entry part regular travel blog post and part public service announcement. After our experience with the sketchy border crossing from Paraguay to Argentina, we only had a day to see the spectacular Iguazu Falls before heading on to Buenos Aires. Our time there was both wonderful and disappointing. Wonderful because it was amazing [...]
As we returned from the Galapagos Islands and began talking about how we would summarize our experience there, it became clear that photos could only truly do it justice. With that, we decided to develop a photo essay of the animals that we saw (and were able to photograph/videotape) while we were there. Land Animals Land Tortoise [...]