Welcome to this weblog by Roy Jones. Here you'll find the diary of a backpacking trip through Latin America, musings on life, living as an expat in the Caribbean, as well as plans for a bicycle tour through Europe and beyond.


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Tag: Mountains

Panama

Below are the photos taken in Panama. These can also be accessed through the blog entry that relates to the day the particular photo was taken.

Highlights from Panama include:
Spending some time in Bocas Del Toro
Hiking in the mountains of Boquete
Visiting the Panama Canal
The town of El Valle
Beach life in Pedasi
Visiting a Health Centre [...]

Random Photo (2): Torres Del Paine

The second in the series of photos highlighting good trips in Latin America comes from Torres del Paine in Chilean Patagonia, where I trekked the “W” route for 5 days. The park is a world biosphere reserve and is home to a huge amount of plant and animal species, as well as snow capped [...]

Latin America

Highlights
Equipment Review
Final Route

Highlights
The original blog – “roylloydjones” – started out as an almost daily journal from my eleven month backpacking trip around Latin America in 2005/06, recording daily events as I travelled by any mode of transport available – car, bus, train, aeroplane, rickshaw, canoe, sail boat, speed boat and ferry, eventually travelling this [...]

Santa Marta: Tayrona National Park

Days 247 to 249 – Wednesday 24th to Friday 26th May 2006
In reality after getting to bed at 5am, an 8am start was never going to happen. I thought we all did well to get up at 9am and start preparations for our trip to Parque Nacional Tayrona, the pristine Caribbean beach where we would [...]

La Paz: Feeling the Altitude

Days 205 to 207 – Wednesday 12th to Friday 14th April 2006
As we had celebrated Robin’s 21st the night before (albeit in his absence as he was sleeping of the effects of the top shelf) it was a fairly slow start to the day. Once we had acquired some breakfast and woken up our first [...]

Potosi: Mining Town

Days 198 & 199 – Wednesday 5th & Thursday 6th April 2006
After arriving in Potosi at 2am and having to search around for a place to kip, we slept in a bit. First it was a stop in a Salteña restuarant where we hungrily devoured two of the cornish pasty type treats, before we headed [...]

Salt Plains: Ups and Downs

Days 196 & 197 – Monday 3rd & Tuesday 4th April 2006
We awoke to much better weather – sun shining, no clouds. This put me in a better mood. I reckon I must have some kind of SAD syndrome going on. It was a totally different landscape from the day before, desert plains and [...]

Tupiza: Back to the Basics

Day 191 – Wednesday 29th March 2006
Arriving at the Bolivian border at 7am the formalities were pretty straightforward and I got another stamp in my passport. It was immediately obvious as I walked from the border to the bus terminal that Bolivia was definately not a first world country.

Salta: Road Trip 2

Day 187 – Saturday 25th March 2006
Part two of The Road Trip started out with a very uninspiring vist to a cheese-making factory, but this was soon over and it was into the good bit. Between Cafayate and Salta there were numerous locations to stop and take in some of the most impressive scenery I [...]

Cafayate: Ravines, Valleys and Mountains

Day 186 – Friday 24th March 2006
Once our hire car had arrived, we loaded our stuff uop and set off pretty much straight away on our two day, 550km road trip around the Calchaquies Valleys. We were three, myself and and an Israeli couple. Our transport was a VW Gol, equivalent to a Polo in [...]