Updated 06.01.07

My trip to Sri Lanka
Here are some pictures which i took on a 16 day vacation on this lovely island in the autumn of 2006.

Great food, great seawater, wild traffic and lots of my favourite trees: Coconut palms.
Nice people too...

I spent my two first nights in a not-so-nice place called Negombo which is close to the airport.Then i traveled south by train and found my tropical paradise in a small village called Mirissa. I stayed there and relaxed, doing absolutely nothing but a few long walks for another 8 or 9 days.
From there i took a bus to Ella in the mountains, stayed one night and then took a train to Candy where i spent three nights before returning to Negombo for the evening waiting for my return flight.

Note to fellow travelers: Avoid Heathrow airport at any cost - the security queues will make you miss your connecting flights and make you want to bite your fingers off out of frustration (or the security personnels fingers, if you are smart).
They are ridiculous. 2 X-ray machines for many thousand people to share...

This time around i had a better camera with me (a Canon EOS 350D with a Sigma 28-70 mm 2.8 lens) and i have taken many more shots than you get to see here, but the rest aren't really worth seeing since they are more or less duplicates of those you get to see...

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My trip to Peru
I absolutely loved that country!

These are the pictures i took while travelling the southern part of Peru in January 2005.
Note however, that you will not find any glossy idyllic coffeetable-book shots, but just a bunch of pics that give an impression of what i saw.
Partly because i am not really a good enough photographer, and partly because i believe in "the camera as a neutral observer", and i believe that you get to see some pics of peru that you wouldn't see otherwise.
The pics were taken with a cheap camera, and often out of bus windows, and are not sorted for "artistic merit" - of which there would be none anyway...

Have fun :-)

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NOTE: Some of the pics have been removed due to space limits on the server i use - so you only get half the pics i took.

The first few days - San Vincente de Caņete to Huacachina

The Puna on the road to Puno + Lake Titicaca

The trip from Cuzco to Ayacucho and on to "Abra de Arpacheta"

The "Abra de Arpacheta" mountain pass and descent to the desert at sea level

How did i do it?:
I booked a flight with Iberia (CPH>MADRID>LIMA return fare ~1250 US$) and then travelled around by local means of transport (mostly bus, and the occasinal shared taxi).
Cheap hotels (avg. 10 US$ for a single with bathroom) can be found upon arrival in most cities, and restaurants are everywhere and serve extremely good food.
Some roads are unpaved and make for long trips even to cover just a few hundred kilometres, but generally transport was efficient and up to fair standards for a developing country.
Plus that the landscapes make up for the long time in the busses :D


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