Canada - Beautiful British Columbia

"Beautiful British Columbia" is what is written on every vehicle license plate, here in Canada's most Western province. And it is indeed incredibly beautiful – if it isn't raining :)

At first, the weather was very good – but after leaving Vancouver Island, I had quite a few days of solid rain. Today (12th of July), it's the first REAL sunny day with blue sky & after a short break in Dease Lake I'll now make my way up into the Yukon Territory.

Two days ago, I had my first encounters with black bears, who were playing & feeding next to the road – 5 bears within 200km of riding. I haven't got any pictures yet, but I'm sure it won't be the last bears I've seen & will try to keep the camera ready for a few pictures.

Anyway – Here's the first photographs from Canada: British Columbia, Chiliwack to Dease Lake:

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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USA

The USA Photo-Blog is now online. You can either view Thumbnails on FlickR, or the automated Slideshow (in the slideshow, click on "Show Info" to see photo captions & descriptions).

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Mexico

The Mexico Photo-Blog is now online. You can either view Thumbnails on FlickR, or the automated Slideshow (in the slideshow, click on "Show Info" to see photo captions & descriptions).

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Central America

The Central America Photo-Blog is now online. Lots of small countries in a very small time – as I was trying to get to Alaska for the summer and I'm a bit behind schedule:

Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize.

You can either view Thumbnails on FlickR, or the automated Slideshow (in the slideshow, click on "Show Info" to see photo captions & descriptions).

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Colombia

The Colombia Photo-Blog is now online. You can either view Thumbnails on FlickR, or the automated Slideshow (in the slideshow, click on "Show Info" to see photo captions & descriptions).

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Ecuador & Galapagos Islands (Oct-Nov 2010)

Another quick photo-blog update, still trying to catch up with everything: Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands.

I had been looking forward to the Galapagos Islands for quite a long time now – and it was indeed absolutely gorgeous. Some information for other travellers reading this blog: I managed to get a real good last-minute price for a 7-day boat cruise. There's a lot of detailed information on other traveller's blogs already, on how to do the islands "on the cheap", so just a brief summary here from my side:

Flight to Galapagos: US$380 (special promotion from TAME airlines, booked in the TAME office in Quito. Entrance fee to National Park: $100. I stayed on the islands for 4 nights, trying to get a last minute deal. There's plenty of offers, but only a few go to the "good" islands (Española and Genovesa, with the best bird-life). I finally found one with the "Guantanamera" boat, 7 days, US$840. Staying in Puerto Ayora (whilst looking for a local last-minute deal) is about $10-15 per day for accomodation, and $3 for a standard lunch. The local supermarket has all necessities for self-catering but prices are about double to mainland Ecuador.

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