tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74115346968568538332024-03-05T11:49:39.233-08:00Mr and Mrs Globe TrotNewlyweds and photographers, Julia and Yuriy Manchik, take off for half a year to see the world together. This is their travel journal in photos.Julia and Yuriyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06286843668985222963noreply@blogger.comBlogger300125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411534696856853833.post-77303049660128895332017-09-27T07:11:00.000-07:002017-09-27T07:11:02.904-07:00Getting Lost in Venice | Part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Because of everyone's warnings about Venice, we spent just one and a half days (and two nights) in Venice, and it felt like a good amount of time (I have a feeling the people who didn't like Venice stayed for too long). If we had another half day, we would have liked to visit Burano, a picturesque island known for it's colorful buildings, seafood, and glass art. You've definitely seen photos of it before.</div>
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We didn't really know what you are supposed to see in Venice, so we just set out walking and ended up seeing a lot of the main attractions by accident. There is a giant square called Piazza San Marco where you'll find the famous St. Mark’s Basilica, Doge’s Palace, and Torre dell’Orologio, a 500 year old clock tower with amazing views from the top. The basilica is free (but always has a long line) and was really stunning and worth seeing. It was built a thousand years ago and known for the super intricate mosaics inside. While everyone was looking up, I was busy looking down at the incredible tile work on the floor. There are no backpacks allowed inside and we had a backpack with us (and our camera gear inside), so we took turns going inside and waiting outside with the backpack. With no partner and no cameras allowed, it was a pretty inspirational walk. The clock tower was not free but it was cheap and the views from the top were pretty spectacular and we also recommend it, especially if you're a photographer. All the photos in this post that look like they were taken from above were from the clock tower.</div>
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Venice is one of those cities that makes you wish so badly you could travel back in time to see it in its glory days... when it was one of the wealthiest cities in Italy and an inspiring home to so many artists. It was nice to see it, even if to set your imagination off. At the very least, we got a lot of steps and stairs in, walking all around the city and up and over so many bridges.</div>
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Julia and Yuriyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06286843668985222963noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411534696856853833.post-37489289441382755142017-09-25T07:04:00.000-07:002017-09-25T13:28:31.722-07:00Getting Lost in Venice | Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We drove from <a href="http://www.mrmrsglobetrot.com/2017/09/around-munich.html" target="_blank">Munich</a>, Germany to Venice, Italy, which took us about five and a half hours, and took us through Austria. In some parts of the US, five and a half hours gets you to another part of one state. Someday we'll live in Europe and road-trip to a new country every weekend... </div>
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Renting a car is usually our favorite way to travel, but of course there are no cars in Venice. We left our rental car on the mainland and took a bus to Venice (there is a bridge that connects mainland Italy to the islands), then a water bus to the island where our hotel was. By the time we arrived and found our hotel without internet, it was around midnight and we were starving. Our first meal in Italy? Pizza at an empty hole-in-the wall spot run by an Asian couple, the only thing open at that time. We got our pizzas to go and ate them in our <a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g187870-d235850-Reviews-Hotel_Bucintoro-Venice_Veneto.html" target="_blank">wooden-boat themed hotel room</a>, happy to have found something to make up for our missed dinner (and it's pizza, so you really can't complain). </div>
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While planning our trip to Italy, a few of our friends said to not even bother going to Venice! We were shocked by that advice, since it's such a quintessential Italian city in such a unique setting. We heard over and over that Venice is extremely touristy and extremely over-priced, that nobody actually lives there anymore but just come to the island to work in the tourist playground. I actually don't know how true that is, but it was indeed very touristy and the first place we saw how infiltrated Italy is with selfie sticks (and we visited in April, the very beginning of peak season). However, if you go away from the main square and the canals with gondolas for hire, it's actually really easy to find yourself all alone in a maze of narrow streets that make no sense, up and over canals on little foot bridges, and sometimes end up at a dead end at the water's edge. There's something about tightly stacked colorful, worn buildings and water that make a city so darn charming and a photographer's paradise (it reminded us a bit of <a href="http://www.mrmrsglobetrot.com/search/label/Havana" target="_blank">Havana, Cuba</a> in that way). We had no regrets about coming to Venice. But then again, it was on the way for us, coming from north of Italy, and can be a bit out of the way if you're flying into Rome.</div>
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Even though we were in Venice for a day and a half, we have sooo many photos. We have another long post from Venice coming up, with a few suggestions of what to see. </div>
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- Julia & Yuriy</div>
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P.S. Today is our 7 year wedding anniversary, and roughly 7 years since we started this blog(!) when we traveled around the world for 6 months... that was fast. If you're reading, when did you first discover our blog? Way back when during our honeymoon travels or more recently? </div>
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Julia and Yuriyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06286843668985222963noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411534696856853833.post-36557390188178181702017-09-14T06:37:00.000-07:002017-09-15T15:16:41.787-07:00Around Munich<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Since we weren't planning on going to Germany (until we found ourselves in nearby <a href="http://www.mrmrsglobetrot.com/2017/05/a-sunny-day-in-zurich.html" target="_blank">Zurich</a>), we had just enough time for a couple nights in Munich. The first thing we did was take a free walking tour (again), which was amazing in a city like Munich because it has so much history, especially from WWII and the Nazis' hay day in the city. The guide pointed out various places where Hitler had speeches or liked to hang out. Munich had a lot more personality than Zurich, with interesting shops and trendy cafes with young, cool people. We walked endless blocks and rested with a brat and pint in a beer garden more than once, which seemed packed and lively any time of day.</div>
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We also made a trip out to Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany's first concentration camp 10 miles outside of Munich. The camp has a few long low buildings with massive empty fields where hundreds of barracks housing prisoners used to stand (there were 30,000 prisoners at the time of liberation). Stone posts and barbed wire fence enclose the camp. I kept imagining faces behind the fence, like I'd seen in <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914798/" target="_blank">The Boy in The Striped Pajamas</a></i>. We walked through the barracks, gas chambers, and crematorium, as well as the "museum" part of the camp. There were 32,000 documented deaths at the camp, and many more undocumented (thanks, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>). We flipped through a massive book that listed the names of all who had died at Dachau. Naturally I flipped to the L's to look for my last name first. I was somewhat shocked to find someone with my maiden name of Lukomsky. That made the whole experience more eery and real, imagining a relative suffering in this place. We are so blessed to live in a country and a time where we are safe no matter what we look like or where we come from. </div>
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Julia and Yuriyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06286843668985222963noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411534696856853833.post-58664591144018243162017-05-16T12:24:00.001-07:002017-05-16T12:48:57.893-07:00A Detour for Castles in Germany<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After a week in <a href="http://www.mrmrsglobetrot.com/search/label/Switzerland" target="_blank">Switzerland</a>, we planned to drive south to Italy, which is what I was looking forward to most. But if you're married to Yuriy and he has his own car, he's going to try to squeeze in as much as possible. He convinced me that we should swing by Germany real quick, because Munich is only 5 hours away (from Zurich). He really enjoyed Munich when he visited with his brother almost ten years ago, and I'd never been to Germany, so I was pretty easily convinced to take a little side trip with the promise of a good brat and beer and some German history. </div>
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Since we were already taking a detour to Munich, we might as well stop by and see some castles along the way, right? That's the problem with Europe... everything is so close and there's always something that's "basically on the way". One week in, and we were already feeling one month in Europe wasn't nearly enough...</div>
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We visited Neuschwanstein Castle and Hohenschwangau Castle, both belonging to King Ludwig II, who became king of Bavaria when he was just 19 years old in 1864. What else would you do as a teenage king but build a better castle? The castles are so close, you can walk from one to the other.<br />
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Unfortunately, the bridge that offers the best views of Neuschwanstein was under construction, so we missed out on that. We also arrived as the castle was ready to close for the evening, so we didn't get tickets to go inside. There were so many crowds and school groups leaving the castle as we were arriving, so we didn't feel too bad about missing the chaos, and got to walk around the castle with a little more peace and quiet. </div>
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We said goodbye to our friends and awesome Swiss hosts, <a href="https://nomadicjune.com/" target="_blank">Zhanna</a> and Gary, in <a href="http://www.mrmrsglobetrot.com/2017/04/lauterbrunnen-fairytale-village-in.html" target="_blank">Lauterbrunnen</a>, and continued on to Zürich, our first big city and last stop in Switzerland. It was exciting to be in a big European city, even if we were paying $8 for a latte (at least it was in a beautiful cafe that made us feel fancy). We had just one day in the city, and did a free walking tour, which are available in most big cities around the world and an awesome way to get a feel for a new city and see the major attractions in just a couple hours. The city was incredibly clean and felt very sophisticated and nice.</div>
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One of the simple highlights of the day was getting pasta and salad from a deli, finding a bench by the Limmat River, and enjoying the food and sunshine amid locals on their lunch breaks.</div>
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From the village of <a href="http://www.mrmrsglobetrot.com/2017/04/lauterbrunnen-fairytale-village-in.html">Lauterbrunnen</a>, we took a cable car up to the summit of <a href="http://www.schilthorn.ch/en/Welcome">Schilthorn</a> (<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">9,744 ft) </span>to get a closer look at the Alps. From the valley floor to the summit, the weather was dramatically colder and we were surrounded by stunning, snow-covered mountain peaks. It was quite the change of scenery.</div>
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Once at the top, there are panoramic views of the Swiss Alps, some ski runs, a revolving restaurant, and a 007 James Bond Museum. The revolving restaurant, Piz Gloria, was featured in the 1969 James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service. If you remember the old film where there is a gun chase on skis, that's the one. It felt silly just how much everything was branded around James Bond... we ate burgers in the restaurant with 007 stamped into the toasted buns. Before the James Bond movie, it was just a stunning place to be closer to the mountains, the real stars here, and I think I would have preferred it that way.<br />
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Either way, we loved the experience and the views and would recommend it, even though the tickets to get up there were overpriced. We wouldn't have been able to experience the Alps up close any other way within a couple hours.<br />
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From <a href="http://www.mrmrsglobetrot.com/2017/01/three-swiss-cities-in-one-day.html">Lake Thun</a>, we continued our European roadtrip to the fairytale village of Lauterbrunnen, hidden in a deep valley in the Swiss Alps, surrounded by steep rock faces dotted with waterfalls and wrapped in trees where the mountains are less steep. There are 72 waterfalls that run into the valley, some several hundred feet high. This beautiful place inspired Tolkien's mystical Middle Earth in Lord of the Rings. We were here in April before everything turned green after the winter, so we can only imagine how beautiful and lush it must be in the summer.<br />
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With only one day here, we visited a place called Trümmelbach Falls, which is a group of beautiful glacier waterfalls inside a mountain and requires a small fee to visit. We’ve never seen any falls like this, running through the inside of a mountain. The waterfalls are super tall and forceful, carving amazing tunnels through the rock. There is a tunnel-lift that will give you a ride to the top of the mountain, and stairs and tunnels that descend down through the mountain, with platforms and lights illuminating the waterfalls in all the right places. There were a few areas where you had to get wet from the incredible spray to get a look at the falls, and yell to be heard over the sound of rushing water. Though it didn't feel very wild, it was pretty impressive how the waterfalls were made accessible with stairs and rails for visitors.<br />
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The Trümmelbach drains glaciers from several massive peaks in the Alps including Eiger (3970 m), Mönch (4099 m) and Jungfrau (4158 m). Up to 20,000 litres of water pass through the falls every second. No wonder it’s so beautifully carved!<br />
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If we had more time, we would have loved to do some hiking in the area. From the valley, we took a cable car up to the summit of Schilthorn to get a closer look at the Alps. Those photos in the next post.<br />
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Riding a tunnel lift through the inside of a rocky mountain to get to the top of <span style="text-align: left;">Trümmelbach Falls.</span></div>
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As much as we love traveling to faraway places, we love where we live. It's been super gloomy and rainy in Seattle the past couple months (making us want to get on a plane), but when we had a sunny Friday last week, we spent the day at some of our favorite spots close to home.</div>
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Seattle was one of the first <a href="https://www.car2go.com/US/en/">car2go</a> cities to get their hands on the new Mercedes-Benz GLA and CLA fleet and they gave us a car to try out. car2go is is so easy—you check the app to find the closest car to you, hop in and drive anywhere, then drop it off in any legal parking spot. You're charged by the minute while driving (you can currently take out a Mercedes-Benz for only $0.41 per minute), but as soon as you park, you're off the hook and you don't have to pay for parking!! Street parking in Seattle is as high as $4.50 per hour, which is ridiculous and totally not worth it if you want to spend the day in the city. We loved driving the new wheels for our Seattle date.</div>
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If you're in Seattle for a day, try something from <b>our ideal Seattle day.</b>.. </h4>
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<li>Walk along the boardwalk and enjoy views of the water and ferries coming and going at Alki beach, just a few minutes from where we live in West Seattle.</li>
<li>Drive to Volunteer Park and wander through the <a href="https://volunteerparkconservatory.org/" target="_blank">Volunteer Park Conservatory</a> to admire all the amazing plants (and warm up in our favorite cactus room). </li>
<li>Park in Capitol Hill and visit some of our favorite shops—<a href="https://totokaelo.com/" target="_blank">Totokaelo</a>, <a href="http://www.elliottbaybook.com/" target="_blank">Elliot Bay Bookstore</a>, <a href="http://glasswingshop.com/" target="_blank">Glasswing</a>, and <a href="https://likelihood.us/" target="_blank">Likelihood</a>. Even if we're not buying anything, these shops leave us feeling inspired.</li>
<li>Head to Pike Place Market before it closes. Stop by <a href="http://rachelsgingerbeer.com/" target="_blank">Rachel's Ginger Beer</a> in Post Alley for the tastiest, local ginger beer with flavors like blood orange and white peach. Enjoy the live music, flowers, local goods, and lively atmosphere of the market.</li>
<li>Since we're already parked downtown, walk to <a href="http://www.japonessa.com/" target="_blank">Japonessa</a> for our favorite sushi happy hour for dinner (happy hour is all day in the bar except 8-10pm, and it's sooo good).</li>
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Seattle is not the most walkable city because of all the water, bridges, and hills separating the neighborhoods, so <a href="https://www.car2go.com/US/en/">car2go</a> is super handy when getting from place to place. </div>
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It's a new year, and we hope to share our Europe travels a little more frequently or we'll never get through our photos! After Switzerland, we still have Germany, Italy, France, and Belgium to share. </div>
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Being <a href="http://www.mrmrsglobetrot.com/2016/10/friends-in-switzerland.html" target="_blank">hosted by our friends</a>, <a href="http://nomadicjune.com/" target="_blank">Zhanna</a> and Gary, in Switzerland was amazing because we got to do activities they normally enjoy, like <a href="http://www.mrmrsglobetrot.com/2016/11/via-ferrata-climbing-rock-faces-in.html" target="_blank">climbing a via ferrata</a> and <a href="http://www.mrmrsglobetrot.com/2016/11/friends-fondue-in-swiss-chalet.html" target="_blank">hiking to their chalet in the mountains</a>. It also meant we did a lot of non-touristy things around home, like go soak in the local hot springs pool at night, eat their fave Thai takeout for dinner one night, and swing by Gary's mom's house to meet some of the family members we'd been hearing so much about.</div>
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Toward the end of the week, we decided we needed to venture further away from home and packed up for a short road trip. We were headed toward Lauterbrunnen, and spent a day stopping along the way in a few beautiful cities—Neuchâtel (where I did a short portrait session for Zhanna + Gary), Bern, and Thun. </div>
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There's something so wonderful and picturesque about layers of crammed rooftops, and the Swiss landscape has done the cities a favor with it's rolling hills. There are so many good view points in hilly cities! Bern especially, was one of those cities that seemed to fit in one postcard-perfect frame from up on the hill across the river as soon as we got out of the car. No need to trek anywhere.</div>
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On our third stop in Thun, we met up with a couple of photographers we had connected with through Instagram. Gosh, the internet is crazy cool. We instantly became friends with <a href="http://davidandkathrin.com/" target="_blank">David and Kathrin</a> over a pasta lunch at a lovely sidewalk cafe. After lunch, the six of us wandered around Thun, casually wandering through a castle (no big deal), and taking each other's photos, because that's what photographers do when they get together. David and Kathrin have friends who own a bed and breakfast retreat of some sort on Lake Thun, and they invited us to come see their beautiful property, have a coffee, and take a row boat out on the lake. The weather was overcast and a little hazy, and the light fading over the lake at the end of the day was absolutely beautiful. We didn't see a single other person or boat out—the lake was all ours.</div>
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As we traveled northwest from Monthey, the language changed from French to Swiss German. Our hosts speak French and our new friends speak Swiss German, so it was really interesting to see that English can still be the common language even between people from one country! </div>
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We parted ways with our new friends, and continued on to Lauterbrunnen with Zhanna and Gary, driving in the dark—such a shame! Now that we're home, I keep seeing stunning photos of Lake Thun and it hurts to think of the beautiful views we missed while driving around that lake. Never travel through Switzerland through the night! </div>
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(where I did a short portrait session for our hosts, Zhanna + Gary)</div>
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Seems like we stumbled into an amazing street market in every other town we visited in Europe.</div>
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<b>Bern, Switzerland</b></h3>
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I couldn't get over how peaceful and sweet this couple looked sitting on a bench overlooking the city. This photo made it into our <a href="http://www.handlewithcareshop.com/product/2017-europe-postcard-calendar" target="_blank">2017 postcard calendar</a>.</div>
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<b>Thun, Switzerland</b></h3>
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(with our new friends, David + Kathrin, showing us around)</div>
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We've continued our tradition and made a <a href="http://www.handlewithcareshop.com/product/2017-europe-postcard-calendar" target="_blank">2017 postcard calendar</a> with photos from our travels this past year. It's always really fun to go through our photos at the end of the year and make something we can hold in our hands (and makes our holiday gifts super easy). This year's calendar has photos from our roadtrip to Switzerland, Italy, France, and Belgium (which we'll be sharing on the blog shortly!).</div>
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The back of each calendar page has a postcard back. When you're through with the month, cut off the bottom and send the postcard to a friend, or collect all 12 to display as small prints. </div>
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You can shop the calendar <a href="http://www.handlewithcareshop.com/product/2017-europe-postcard-calendar" target="_blank">here</a>. We also sell travel prints if you need some fresh wall art. Thanks for checking it out!</div>
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My friend Zhanna had been living in Switzerland for about a year before we visited her and her Swiss husband Gary. I had seen her post photos of many via ferrata climbs on her <a href="https://www.instagram.com/zhannakruk/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> (which you must follow if you don't) and knew that was something we had to try when we came to visit. The photos from her first via ferrata took my breath away (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/sgDRO5pqLL/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/sgG2wWpqAX/" target="_blank">here</a>). We had never heard of this until she introduced us.</div>
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Via ferrata (Italian for "iron trail") is a climbing route made up of iron rung ladders and steel cable bridges. When climbing, you have to wear a harness and helmet. There is a steel cable that runs along the entire route, to which you clip in, so your harness is secured to the rock face in case of a slip. You're clipped in, so how scary can it be right??? Well, I was wrong about that. When you're on a vertical rock face and standing on a little metal step, with the ground far below you, a slip could be very painful and scary, even if you don't go crashing all the way down to the bottom. The entire way up, you are using your entire body strength to get you up... the steel cable seems like it would help, but it doesn't help get you to the top.</div>
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Since we were in Switzerland in April, many of the climbs were still closed due to snow. Luckily we found one that was at lower elevation. It was amazing; I can only imagine how good the higher ones are. Like we always say... we'll be back.</div>
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<i>Mostly Nikon D750 photos, with a handful of iPhone + <a href="http://momentlens.co/" target="_blank">Moment</a> mixed in.</i></div>
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Crossing our first steel cable bridge. One cable for your feet and one for each hand.</div>
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Julia and Yuriyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06286843668985222963noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411534696856853833.post-55321928593925732322016-11-09T11:59:00.003-08:002017-01-24T12:04:16.432-08:00Friends + Fondue in a Swiss Chalet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When you visit <a href="http://www.mrmrsglobetrot.com/2016/10/friends-in-switzerland.html" target="_blank">friends in Switzerland</a>, and their family has a chalet in the mountains, you definitely fit it into your schedule. From afar, I've seen <a href="https://www.instagram.com/zhannakruk/" target="_blank">Zhanna</a> and Gary post photos from this special place during all seasons, and we were so excited to experience it ourselves. The chalet is in a small village with a handful of other homes, a church, and a couple restaurants, tucked away in a high mountain valley next to a beautiful lake, <a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g1936060-d3371271-Reviews-Lac_de_Tanay-Vouvry_Canton_of_Valais_Swiss_Alps.html" target="_blank">Lac de Taney</a>. In the summer we could have driven up to the town, but in the winter (well... April), we had to park at the bottom, and hike/snowshoe up a steep snowy trail. After reaching the chalet and dropping off our bags, we explored around the area. Gary ventured out onto the frozen but melting lake while we anxiously took photos. What's a popular destination to hike to in the summertime was mostly deserted and the restaurants closed.</div>
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Our amazing hosts hiked up with a bag full of cheese, wine, garlic, and bread. The scent of homemade fondue on the stove is almost as good as the meal itself. We learned that fondue (basically melted cheese and bread) is somewhat of a special occasion meal—about once a month. Hanging out with a Swiss, Gary, and an American who now lives in Switzerland, Zhanna, was the best way to learn about the local culture and food from a familiar perspective. We kept a wood fire going and shared stories and played boardgames until our eyes were heavy and our tummies and hearts full. We need more special occasion meals in our lives. </div>
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I've always envied people who had friends or family overseas. If you have a cousin or former roommate in Germany or Spain, how could you not go visit them?!? I've never had someone to visit in a foreign country. Until now. </div>
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One of my best friends in Seattle met a Swiss man in Peru, married him, and decided to make Switzerland her new home (bummer for me, but who could blame her?). Visiting them in their home together was the best way to start our Europe trip. </div>
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A couple years ago, we traveled to <a href="http://www.mrmrsglobetrot.com/search/label/South%20America" target="_blank">South America</a> with <a href="https://www.instagram.com/zhannakruk/" target="_blank">Zhanna</a>. She was our beloved third wheel. So when she found a cute Swiss guy with a French accent in our group on the <a href="http://www.mrmrsglobetrot.com/2015/02/inca-jungle-trek-part-i.html" target="_blank">Inca Jungle Trek</a>, I thought, "oh good, she has someone to keep her occupied". I thought it was a harmless crush and she'd never see him again. Much to my surprise and horror, at the end of our travels, she bought a one-way ticket to Switzerland with Gary, and decided not to come home. </div>
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I never thought I'd see Gary again, just like I thought Zhanna would forget him in a week, but here we are, staying in his home on the other side of the planet from Peru, in a small town in Switzerland. One of the first things we did was a small hike with a killer view of the town and lake below, the perfect place for a picnic lunch of cured meats, cheese, and bread—my favorite food. We took it easy the first day or two, stopped by a castle near their home (how is that possible?!), drove though a few small towns, enjoyed home cooked meals, played boardgames at night, and ate Swiss chocolate with every meal. It was amazing not to have to google anything and not feel like you're missing something. We went where they took us, and we were happy. Having a personal guide and translator everywhere we went was such a treat.</div>
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Zhanna and Gary dedicated a week to showing us around, and we'll share more from a snowy trip to their mountain chalet and climbing up rock faces in the next few posts. Though I lost a friend in Seattle, I gained two friends in Switzerland. </div>
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Updating our travel blog has been on our to-do list for about a year now. The more time that passes, the bigger of a project it's become, and we just couldn't prioritize it this past year. If you follow us on Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/yuriymanchik/" target="_blank">Yuriy</a> / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/juliamanchik/" target="_blank">Julia</a>), you know we're still our usual selves, still living in Seattle, still traveling when we can, just not sharing as much here. Last summer I finished design school and started doing design full time for a <a href="https://momentlens.co/" target="_blank">startup</a>. The past year was an adjustment as Yuriy took over more of the <a href="http://themanchiks.com/" target="_blank">photography business</a> and I poured most of my time into my new work. After being in school and super busy for a while, if I had any free time this past year, I wanted to spend it with friends, not on the computer. </div>
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I miss this. Blogging helps us to go through photos instead of letting them rot on a hard drive, forces us to reflect on a trip, and document memories more thoroughly than on Instagram. As things slow down with photography, I'm excited to spend this fall and winter going through tons of travel photos and updating the blog. </div>
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Earlier this year we spent a month roadtripping through Europe to celebrate our five year wedding anniversary (yeah, already!). Even when we <a href="http://www.mrmrsglobetrot.com/2012/06/numbers-numbers.html" target="_blank">traveled for 6 months</a> after our wedding, there was so much that we missed in Europe. This time we visited France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, and Belgium, and the only place we revisited was Paris. Everything else was new. And we wished we had more time. </div>
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This post marks the beginning of our roadtrip. We flew into Paris, rented a little Fiat for the month, and drove straight to our good friends' home in Switzerland, about a five hour drive. After a red eye flight and with Yuriy behind the wheel, I fell asleep immediately, so not a single photo here is mine. Yuriy is a lover of roadtrips, and couldn't resist stopping in all the small towns along the way. Later in the trip, we wouldn't have stopped so many times, but when you first arrive in a foreign country, everything is beautiful and awe-inspiring. How could you not stop for a photo?</div>
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Yuriy woke me up with his hands full of food—perhaps the best way to wake up. He stopped by a gas station on the side of the highway, and came back with a couple of amazing sandwiches on really good bread, fresh chocolate croissants, and coffee. In the States, you want to stay far away from gas station food, so we were pleasantly surprised with the random find. From that first bite of ham and cheese sandwich, I could hardly wait for all the meals to come in the next month. </div>
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Hope you enjoy a glimpse of French countryside on our way to Switzerland. Tomorrow I'll share some photos from our time in Switzerland with good friends.</div>
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Julia and Yuriyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06286843668985222963noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411534696856853833.post-22058757317042803512015-08-27T04:25:00.000-07:002015-08-27T04:25:00.313-07:00Peru + Bolivia iPhone video<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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During our three weeks in Peru and Bolivia, I recorded small video clips along the way with my phone, which resulted in this video. This was my first time filming a video with my iPhone, and I'm definitely going to be doing it more often. There's something about motion that takes you back to a place in a way photos can't. I wish I could have filmed more, but I was super short on iPhone storage and traveling without a computer ( I have since solved that problem by upgrading my phone from a 16gb to 128gb... such freedom!).<br />
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In other news, we are absolutely blown away to see our blog nominated for Best Travel Blog of 2015 on the Blog Lovin awards! We don't make money with our blog, don't have a strategy, and don't post super regularly. All content is our own, so we just post when we travel. This blog is a fun personal project we started during our honeymoon almost five years ago (time flies!). We've had so much fun connecting with other like-minded travelers on this blog and in person when we're out and about, and hope to keep it up for awhile. We are so honored to be included among some really solid travel blogs, and among top blogs in other categories that I've been reading and loving for years.<br />
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If you care to cast your vote, you can do so <a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/awards/2015/voting" target="_blank">HERE</a>, now until September 13, 2015.<br />
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Julia and Yuriyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06286843668985222963noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411534696856853833.post-63589458578957277582015-08-03T16:56:00.001-07:002015-08-03T16:57:02.336-07:00Last stop: Lima, Peru<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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With one full day in Lima, Peru at the end of our trip, we packed our day full. Things we saw in one day:</div>
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<i>Historic Center of Lima</i></div>
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<li> <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g294316-d311625-Reviews-Plaza_de_Armas_Plaza_Mayor-Lima_Lima_Region.html" target="_blank">Plaza de Armas</a> - the heart of Old Lima; the bronze fountain in the middle is the only thing that has survived several earthquakes and dates back to 1650 </li>
<li><a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g294316-d311638-Reviews-Iglesia_y_Convento_de_San_Francisco-Lima_Lima_Region.html" target="_blank">Iglesia y Convento de San Francisco</a> - historic church that's known for its catacombs, which contain remains from 70,000+ people</li>
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<li> Pacific Ocean - we walked along the rocky beach and watched paragliders fly over the city</li>
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First we had to check out the historic center of Lima, which was basically one huge plaza surrounded by gorgeous buildings and churches and lots of tourists. Next, we took a taxi and public transportation to get to some of the waterfront neighborhoods. We walked a lot of Barranco and Miraflores, which are right next to each other. We stopped by a couple of museums, marveled at the beautiful waterfront homes and boutique hotels, bought lots of chocolate to take home to our families, and sat on the rocky beach watching waves crashing and paragliders sail over the skyline. </div>
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It's wild that we live on the Pacific coast as well, but so far away, both physically and culturally. Here the beach is incredibly filthy with litter, at home it's pretty spotless. Here there are palm trees, at home there are evergreens. Here we're tourists, at home we're citizens. Here it's winter, at home it's summer. That's what had us aching to be back. There's no place like summer in Seattle.</div>
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And that wraps up our South American trip! I shot a little iphone video while abroad, and want to share that next before moving on to our next trip.</div>
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Julia and Yuriyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06286843668985222963noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411534696856853833.post-23161419834726162522015-07-22T14:48:00.004-07:002015-07-22T14:51:02.278-07:00La Paz, Bolivia | Stolen Camera + Passports<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Coming back to La Paz wasn't as bright and happy as the <a href="http://www.mrmrsglobetrot.com/2015/05/la-paz-bolivia-part-1.html" target="_blank">first time</a>, when Zhanna and I had a dance party in the taxi while driving into the city, falling in love with it before we ever stepped out of the the car. </div>
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The second time we drove into La Paz, after our <a href="http://www.mrmrsglobetrot.com/search/label/Bolivian%20Expedition" target="_blank">Southwestern Bolivian expedition</a> in Uyuni, we were on the worst bus ride of our lives. Twelve hours through the night in an old bus on the bumpiest road you can imagine, where for the first few hours, I would fly into the air so high that landing back in my seat felt like getting punched in the stomach. So bumpy that I needed to pee for hours, but didn't think I could walk down the aisle and make it downstairs to the restroom without splitting my head open. So bumpy that things in the overhead compartment would tumble out, like a water bottle that landed in my lap while my eyes were closed, startling me so bad that I jumped up. </div>
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When I finally got some shut eye, I held onto it with all I had. I wanted nothing more than to sleep through the rest of the miserable bus ride and wake up in La Paz. And we did eventually sleep, probably because the roads got better closer to the capitol city. When I woke up, everyone on the bus was standing and shuffling around, packing up their belongings and getting ready to get off the bus. We had a small backpack in the overhead compartment, and when we didn't see it right away, I figured it had just slid forward during that crazy ride. The bus slowly emptied out, along with everyone's belongings, and Yuriy and I were the last ones on the empty bus, looking underneath seats, panic growing. After I realized the backpack wasn't on the bus, I was sure that someone took it by mistake and would bring it back. Eventually reality set in, and I realized that someone most likely intentionally took our backpack, along with our professional camera, a coupe of lenses, a full 32gb card of photos we took during a week in Bolivia, and our passports. I sat down on the curb between buses and cried so hard. </div>
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The worst bus ride ever led to the worst day ever. We circled around the bus terminal, looking for the backpack in people's arms, checking trash cans (in cases someone took the camera and threw everything else away), looking at faces, and wondering what person could do such a horrible thing. If we left the bus terminal, it felt like we were accepting the loss and never seeing it again, so we went around and around. </div>
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We couldn't spend all day mourning our lost camera and photos, because we were planning to leave the country shortly, and had no passports. I always wondered what would happen if you lost a passport in a foreign country, and now we got to find out. On a day when I wanted nothing more than to shower, sleep, and take it easy after <a href="http://www.mrmrsglobetrot.com/search/label/Bolivian%20Expedition" target="_blank">roughing it in the wilderness of Bolivia</a>, we got none of those things. </div>
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<b>The following was our series of events to replace our passports: </b></div>
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- bus terminal police</div>
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- La Paz tourist police - must get new passports before we can file a report</div>
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- U.S. embassy </div>
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- go take passport photos</div>
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- check into a hotel to drop off our bags</div>
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- U.S. embassy to get new passports</div>
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- immigration</div>
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- go take Bolivian passport photos</div>
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- La Paz tourist police - file report</div>
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- immigration </div>
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- go take more Bolivian passport photos because they were the wrong size</div>
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- go to a bank to pay for a visa</div>
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- immigration - wait for hours, even after closing, because they ran out of stickers for the passport</div>
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This mad dash from one place to another lasted from 7am until about 5 or 6pm, and most of the time we were taking a taxi between locations because the city is massive. Getting the new passport at the U.S. embassy was actually the easy part. Getting a new visa from the Bolivian immigration office was the real hassle. We had already paid $140 for a visa when we entered the country, but we had to buy a new one when we lost our passports. We were in the immigration office after all the workers went home for the day. It was Friday, so if we couldn't get our new passports/visas that day, we couldn't leave the country on Sunday and would have to wait until Monday. Lucky for us, there was another American there who had his passport stolen on the same bus ride from hell (though probably a different bus), and he was a loud and demanding New Yorker, which helped us find one employee at the immigration office who spoke some English and tried hard to help us. Everyone else didn't give a hoot about us. After everything was paid and filled out and ready to go, the office ran out of stickers to put in the passport. Someone had to travel to another office during rush hour traffic to pick up a sticker for us. I felt like I was on a reality show or some sick scavenger hunt. </div>
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Having to spend the day desperately trying to get new passports and visas actually took our minds off of losing all our photos. We ended up getting a nice hotel for a couple nights and bought a plane ticket to Lima instead of taking a bus and traveling a little longer, like we originally planned. We were just done with traveling and ready to be home. </div>
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After the ticket was purchased and the passports replaced, we spent a couple days exploring La Paz again, and documenting it with our Fuji X100s (a much smaller camera which wasn't stolen, but was hardly used throughout the trip).</div>
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<b>Biggest lesson learned:</b></div>
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<i>While traveling, take the memory card out of your camera and put it in a safe place. If your gear gets stolen, it's much easier to replace than the photos from your trip.</i></div>
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When we were still traveling, every time I thought of our stolen things, I had to try really hard not to cry. Finally the stuff that happens to other people was catching up to. Once we got home, the pain of losing the photos really melted away. I realized how lucky we were to be happy, healthy, together, and completely spoiled in America. We have everything we need. The camera was easily replaced, the passport was somewhat easily replaced, and the memories associated with the photos are still safely in our minds.</div>
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Hope you enjoy these photos of La Paz, the city of endless markets. All images were taken on a Fuji X100s. </div>
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On the last day of our Southwestern Bolivian expedition, we drove through an area with a lot of geothermal activity, which was clearly visible above ground with bubbling mud pools and steaming cracks in the earth. Some of the steam was blowing out so forcefully that it sounded like a whistling tea kettle. The sight and sound and rotten egg smell was overwhelming on the senses, especially after driving through barren nothingness to get there. Walking through the steam felt like walking on another planet. It was incredibly captivating and also terrifying, because nothing was fenced off, and it seemed so easy to step into a boiling mud pot and get cooked alive, especially when the steam enveloped you and you couldn't see a thing. Throughout our expedition, we kept thinking this is like Iceland but in the desert. </div>
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One of the best perks of geothermal activity is the natural hot springs we soaked in on our way out. </div>
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This concludes our Bolivian expedition. From here we headed home via La Paz and Lima. We have a couple more posts coming from those two cities. </div>
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I didn't think the second day of the expedition could be better than the <a href="http://www.mrmrsglobetrot.com/2015/06/bolivian-expedition-part-1-uyuni-salt.html" target="_blank">first day with the salt flats</a>, which seemed like the main attraction, but it was. This time we drove further away from civilization, weaving through the high desert on unmarked dirt trails that cars before us left behind. There's no way you could do this trip without knowing where you're going. We were surrounded by colorful volcanoes on all sides. I kept trying to capture it with my phone but the surreal watercolored looking hues just didn't come across. </div>
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The highlight of the day was coming upon the first lake with flamingos. I wanted to run and shout and swim with them. It was the most amazing feeling to "stumble upon" a lake in the middle of the desert, filled with big pink birds that look like lawn ornaments. I could have sat and watched them all day. It was one of the most unreal sights I've seen. </div>
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Throughout the day, we stopped by three salt water lakes that are homes to flocks of flamingos. The last lake, Laguna Colorada (Red Lagoon), is supposed to be bright red in color, but it wasn't as brilliant as <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=laguna+colorada&es_sm=91&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMIjKr_n4mWxgIVS5eICh0OVw7z&biw=1673&bih=929" target="_blank">photos we had seen</a>. It must not have been the right season. It was also not the season for flamingos. In high season, there are hundreds if not thousands of them (so we hear). Apparently in the winter, the old and weak are the ones who can't make the trip to warmer climates and stay behind. Well the old and weak ones sure impressed me.</div>
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Inside the salt hotel where we stayed the first night, made of salt bricks and a salty, sandy floor.</div>
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Yuriy wandering around an area where we took a break and saw a <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=chinchilla&es_sm=91&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMI5pOS1oiWxgIVRSyICh2LmAcr&biw=1673&bih=893" target="_blank">chinchilla</a>!</div>
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We took a night bus to the town of Uyuni to go on a 3-day expedition around Southwestern Bolivia. Julia and I were crammed into a Land Cruiser with 4 guys from Brazil who spoke no English. And our driver/guide spoke no English. The only reason people come to Uyuni is for the tours; there really is nothing to see or do in this little dusty town, but so much to see around it. </div>
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Our first stop was the 'Great Train Graveyard'. In the early 19th century, Bolivia was planning on building a large network of trains but technical difficulties and tensions with neighboring countries put those plans on a permanent halt. So they just left the British made trains to rust and corrode out in the elements. The flat and empty landscape made the train remains look extra lonely and eery. </div>
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From there, we headed to Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat at 4,086 sq. miles (10,582 sq. km.), sitting at the crest of the Andes at an elevation of 11,995 ft. (3,656 meters). We stopped a few times to walk on the salt... and to taste it to make sure it was really salt. The salt flat is exceptionally rich in lithium, and contains 50-70% of the world's lithium reserves, as well as many other minerals. Just to give you an idea of how large the salt flats are, look up South America on Google Earth and look for a big white area, close to the Pacific Ocean.</div>
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In the middle of the salt flats is a little 'island' called Isla Incahuasi. The island is the top of an ancient volcano, which was submerged in a giant prehistoric lake before it became the salt flats. Now the 'island' is host to hundreds of giant cacti, and a welcome site in the middle of the flat white landscape. We had a great time stretching our legs by climbing to the top and getting 360 degree views of the cacti and salt flats below, stretching out in every direction as far as the eye can see.</div>
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From La Paz, the country's busy capital, we took a minibus to Coroico, a quaint little town on the outskirts of the jungle. If we kept going in that direction, we would get to the Bolivian part of the Amazon Jungle. We went from roughly 12k feet elevation in La Paz to 5k elevation in Coroico in just a couple of hours, which changes everything—warm weather, moist air, tropical vegetation, no more crusty, bloody noses. Remember, we were here during the winter, so it felt amazing to get a break from the cold, dry air of La Paz (and almost every city before that).</div>
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There is only one way to get to Coroico—on the the Yungas Road aka "World's Most Dangerous Road" aka the "Death Road". The Death Road is a single lane, dirt road with no guardrails, that winds along the sides of the mountains with cliffs that drop as much as 2000 feet (<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=world%27s+most+dangerous+road&es_sm=91&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=sPxkVdiGMIO0ogSO2oCQAg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAg&biw=1675&bih=929#tbm=isch&q=the+world%27s+most+dangerous+road%2C+bolivia" target="_blank">the photos will make you feel sick</a>). As many as 200 to 300 people died on the road every year. Luckily, the trip wasn't nearly as dangerous for us. In 2009, a new paved road with guardrails was built to avoid the most dangerous part of the original Death Road. Still, the views from the top were incredible, and I kind of wished we were driving ourselves so we could pull over for photos and stand on the edge. But maybe not. <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(</span></i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://www.lapazlife.com/bolivias-death-road-would-you-risk-it/" target="_blank">source</a>)</i></span></div>
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We stayed in a <a href="http://www.solyluna-bolivia.com/en/" target="_blank">resort</a> that has a collection of little cabins, completely surrounded by foliage and connected by winding paths. Every part of the resort had amazing views of the valley below and lush green mountains in the distance. We wished so badly we could stay longer. It was the perfect place to chill out and enjoy nature. </div>
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From our cabin, we could walk into town, which was full of things to see, small as it was. Even here, small market stalls adorned the streets, with women selling bananas, cabbage, root vegetables, and Yuriy's favorite, piles of tangerines. The buildings were colorful, covered in a layer of dirt, and beautifully aged. The roads were either unpaved or covered in cobblestones, which made you feel like you'd traveled back in time. It seemed as if every road was under construction, with piles of bricks laying at intersections, as if nobody was in a hurry to complete any of the construction projects. Even though some of the buildings were shabby and looked like they were uninhabited, every street had people walking, and it felt so alive. </div>
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The only thing that sucked about Coroico is our friend <a href="https://instagram.com/zhannakruk/" target="_blank">Zhanna</a> got seriously sick there. She looked like she was dying for a little over 24 hours, which included the curvy bus ride back to La Paz, during which she puked in a bag. Traveling in a foreign country can really kick your butt sometimes. </div>
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We came to Coroico thanks to a tip from <a href="https://instagram.com/a_leighsmith" target="_blank">someone I follow on Instagram</a>, who said it was her favorite spot in all of her South American travels (she was in the area just weeks before us). I love social media for this reason. </div>
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Since <a href="http://www.mrmrsglobetrot.com/2015/05/la-paz-bolivia-part-1.html" target="_blank">we lost all of our photos</a> from this point on, the images in this post are all iPhone photos. So thankful for that little piece of technology. Also, a couple of the images of me were taken by <a href="https://instagram.com/zhannakruk/" target="_blank">Zhanna</a> (also on an iPhone). Thanks, Z!</div>
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Our private little cabin in the jungly mountains.</div>
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The main lobby/restaurant of the resort was pretty perfect too.</div>
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The view from our patio. We should have paid a lot more for this.</div>
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Sweet place to nap.</div>
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Yuriy, bargaining every chance he gets.</div>
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Julia and Yuriyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06286843668985222963noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411534696856853833.post-41461194428360731692015-05-21T18:44:00.000-07:002015-06-16T23:58:25.676-07:00La Paz, Bolivia | Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From Peru, we crossed the eastern border into Bolivia. First stop: La Paz, the highest capitol city in the world (elevation 11,975 ft / 3,650 m).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We had a heck of a time getting into the country. Once already traveling on the bus headed from Peru to Bolivia, we pulled out our Bolivia guide book (a little too late), and read something about American citizens needing a visa, which we didn't know about and didn't have. Luckily it could be purchased at the border, but the border crossing was in the boonies, and we had no cash to pay for the $140 (per person) visa. We had to catch a taxi into the nearest town, where all the banks were closed, and the ATMs were not working. Finally we struck gold with an ATM, but it wouldn't give us American dollars, which were required for the visa. Cash in hand, we raced back to the border, praying our bus was still there waiting for us, exchanged our money into American dollars, then headed to customs. One of the twenty dollar bills had the tiniest tear and they wouldn't accept it, even though they had just handed that torn bill to us at their currency exchange. Long story short, we made it in, but not without a lot of hassle, adrenaline, and with $280 less in the bank. Apparently Bolivia requires a travel visa for Americans only because America does the same for Bolivians. Maybe we should do more research before visiting a new country, instead of figuring it out on the fly. But where's the fun in that, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">La Paz was a nice surprise. Driving into the city was amazing. It's an enormous city built into the mountains, with peaks surrounding the city. Some have said La Paz is like one big market. Anywhere you go, there are stands and shops and things for sale. Even though its a huge capitol city, many of the locals wear colorful traditional clothing (unlike Lima in Peru). Women wear <i>pollera </i>(long, full skirts), <span lang="es" style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" xml:lang="es"><i>bombín </i>(bowler hats), and colorful shawls that double as packs for carrying stuff.</span> It was the best place to people watch. Many of the women did not like to have their photo taken, so I had to be sneaky, and used my smaller camera (Fuji X100s) to appear less threatening and often shot at waist level. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At the end of our trip, our camera was stolen, and along with it, a memory card full of photos of our entire time in Bolivia (the Peru part was on a different memory card). So, all we have left are some photos from the smaller camera, which we used just a little bit in La Paz, and mostly photos from our iPhones. More on that story later, but I just wanted to let you know that the next few posts won't be as full as usual and are mostly iPhone images. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Isn't La Paz enchanting? I'm glad it was the first city we came to, because we immediately thought, okay, paying for that visa was worth it.</span></div>
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One thing that was constant about Peru and Bolivia... we ate a lot of soup.</div>
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At the Witches' Market, you can buy charms, potions, and dehydrated llama fetuses, which are buried in the foundation of homes for good luck.</div>
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Julia in souvenir heaven.</div>
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Zhanna getting talked into buying this gorgeous rug. Except she didn't buy it.</div>
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Going up the mountain on a fancy new cable car to get a better view of the city (though locals use it as vital transportation to get to and from the city).</div>
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La Paz from the cable car.</div>
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Julia and Yuriyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06286843668985222963noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411534696856853833.post-60965773151058540372015-05-01T05:06:00.004-07:002015-05-26T18:03:18.382-07:00Amantani Island | Peru<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
After visiting the <a href="http://www.mrmrsglobetrot.com/2015/04/uros-floating-islands-peru.html" target="_blank">floating islands</a>, we had the opportunity to stay with a family on Amantani Island on Lake Titicaca. We were warned that many of these people didn't have electricity or light, but it turned out that most homes had a few light bulbs hanging from the ceilings. Still, the accommodations were very basic. The island was not very developed, but had inhabitants living on it for hundreds of years.<br />
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Yuriy and I were paired up in one home, and the rest of our friends (we had made some friends at Machu Picchu) went with another host. We were shown to our room upstairs, then called down for lunch—hot soup, a fried egg, and assorted fingerling potatoes—a staple on the islands, where harsh winters require dehydrated potatoes for survival. For dessert, an herbal minty tea mixed with coca leaves. Our meal was cooked by our hosts in a tiny kitchen which also served as a dining rom.<br />
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Our hosts spoke zero english. The man of the house knew a handful of words, but for once, I think we knew more Spanish than they knew English (and we don't know very much Spanish). They speak their own language on the islands as well, so Spanish is already a second language. We communicated with a lot of hand waving and smiling and facial expressions that showed we liked the food.<br />
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In the evening, we were led up a steep hill side along intersecting dirt paths, following on the tail of our host, who almost ran up the mountain while we gasped for air. The elevation here is very high and some people had headaches and nausea. We got a quick lesson from our guide about the island, and then headed up to the highest peal on the island to watch the sunset. Being at such high elevation and on a giant lake, it was extremely windy and freezing, but all of the locals wore sandals on their feet, as if to show how little they cared about the cold.<br />
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After the sunset hike and dinner, our host family dressed us in traditional Peruvian clothing—a skirt for me, a poncho for Yuriy—and took us to a community hall, where once again, all the visitors were gathering, and we were reunited with our friends. A local band played and we danced and laughed and took photos is our colorful, happy outfits. It felt very touristy because obviously the show was for just us, but it didn't stop us from having a really good time.<br />
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- Julia<br />
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Julia and Yuriyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06286843668985222963noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411534696856853833.post-79774803137963617682015-04-23T06:42:00.000-07:002015-04-23T09:20:29.914-07:00Uros Floating Islands | Peru<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Our next major destination was Lake Titicaca, the largest freshwater lake in South America and the highest navigable lake in the world (elevation 12,500 ft / 3800m). Besides being known for its size and high altitude, it's known for its islands, and that's what we came to see. We booked a boat ride and two night stay on the islands with a guide.<br />
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Our first stop was at the Uros floating islands, one of the craziest civilizations I've ever seen. A long time ago, the Uros people were in conflict with their neighbors, so they retreated to the lake. And stayed there for good. They constructed floating islands out of reeds that grow abundantly in the lake water. Then they made homes out of reeds, boats out of reeds, and basically every other household item they could think of. Humans are so clever and resourceful when they need to be. Out there on the water, the Uros were left in peace. That is, until tourists heard about them.<br />
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Over the last few decades, the floating islands have been moving closer to shore and closer to Puno, a large city on the lake, and accommodating tourists more and more. When we got off the boat and stepped onto the island, the locals gave us a demonstration in building the floating islands with reeds, and with the rest of the time, worked really hard to sell us handicrafts and trinkets. It was pretty obvious that nobody actually lived on this island and everyone who was there was catering to the tourists. Apparently the truly inhabited islands are further out on the lake, far from tourists (yes, they can be moved, just like a boat). I don't blame them. <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/life/world_of_wonders/2011/02/the_island_people.html" target="_blank">source</a>)</span></i><br />
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While it was really cool to learn about the history of the Uros people and see the floating islands in person, the really special experience came later, when we visited a couple of real islands (not floating islands) and got to stay in the homes of the locals there. That post is next.<br />
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Julia and Yuriyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06286843668985222963noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411534696856853833.post-14031296804831289112015-04-22T23:17:00.002-07:002015-04-22T23:17:46.792-07:00Banff for Spring Break<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A little break from regular programming to catch some of you around your spring break.<br />
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We were recently featured by <a href="http://www.womenontheirway.com/spring-break-destinations/" target="_blank">Women on Their Way from Wyndham Worldwide</a>. When asked what our ideal spring break spot would be, we thought Banff, Alberta was the perfect spot to get some adventure in a short amount of time. Check the link below to read more about Banff and five other spring break ideas from various bloggers.<br />
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<a href="http://www.womenontheirway.com/spring-break-destinations/" target="_blank">Women on Their Way: Spring Break Destinations</a><br />
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Coming up next are the small islands we visited in Peru.<br />
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