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Flight to Quito

Posted by Susanna On October - 3 - 2010

I got up around 6:00 am to be ready to start my new adventure with the flight to Atlanta. Over there we did a stopover for a few hours and then checked in the plane to Quito. The plane arrived earlier than planed around 9:35 pm. The airport was packed. Lots and lots of people were waiting for someone to pick up as well as travel guides tried to find all to their travel group belonging members like a shepherd their sheep. It was so noisy but still interesting to watch. While still sitting in the plane my Spanish came easily back so while waiting for Karl I checked already how to come to the place we stay over night and got a map of Quito to not get lost. I had organized the night ago another couchsurf place with Fabian who is photographer in Ecuador and had already published amazing picture books about Ecuador. He had given me great instructions in English and Spanish as well how to come to his house and it worked quite well to find it even in the dark. Did you know Quito was that high in altitude? It’s like Bogota and the temperature at night was 11°C! The roads are very curvy and the city was way bigger than I expected.
Fabian is a very nice guy and had so many interesting stories about the political situation and traveling Ecuador, Galapagos and South America. Since he does pictures all over its interesting for me even more. The coup was actually just a show the president once a prof at university had made to get more attention internationally. More show than anything else but people had to die for it.

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Mission Hotel in NYC

Posted by Susanna On October - 2 - 2010

As I looked out the window this day was becoming a great sunny day.  I was unsure about what to do since the friend of mine Karl who is going to help me with filming the Galapagos adventure for the first two weeks arrived today by plane. I have no proper working phone at the moment (Yes I know – but in the jungle I don’t need it…) so it would be difficult to reach him and best seemed to wait until he pops in at Anthony apartment. I had hoped he could stay there for one night but in the moment the doorbell rang Anthony had different plans what I needed to accept. So the big mission started to find Karl a place last minute to stay in NYC for one night. It was ridiculous! After having a few soda we were looking desperately for a room. But all about $500 for one night! In the end we found him a decent place for $300! I would have never expected that since NYC seemed to be so full of places to stay…
We didn’t do anything at night I was simply to tired and exhausted…

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New York impressions

Posted by Susanna On October - 1 - 2010

I still have to recover my jet lag. I am so tired – I think I slept for ages. At least I missed nothing since the weather was rainy and cold and the best thing to do was enjoying the view from the 39th floor of the building I stay in at the east side. I ordered some Chinese food and waited for my host Anthony to come home… At night we left for some American Macaroni and Cheese and I checked out the cameras at night. I took some Big Apple night impressions of couple of building like my favorite – the Flat Iron Building.

View 39th floor

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Back at the Big Apple

Posted by Susanna On September - 30 - 2010

Let the new adventure start. And yes it was an adventure right from the beginning. After getting up around 5am I was dropped off at Berlin TXL airport. I decided to be more than early – just in case and because I wanted to declare the cameras for my trip at the customs. To be honest that wasn’t working because of the German way of things. The customs wanted me to show some papers / bills what says that these items belong to me. But I simply didn’t have them because I didn’t buy all of them and I didn’t knew. Anyhow I will be fine. Later while waiting for my first connection flight to Dusseldorf what had more than 1h delay I met first Timo and later Patrick from Hawaii. So I actually had some nice conversation while waiting for ages. Fortunately my second flight was waiting because too many people had connection flights to the US. But again, while sitting at the plane to NYC one passenger had the crazy idea not to fly out of a sudden. So the plane had to stop just because of that traveler and they needed to find his baggage what took them over an hour again! Then we lost our starting slot and had to wait again. Finally we left. Meanwhile I was so tired that I just simply wanted to sleep! And so I did. When I woke up they had put a new neighbor next to me that is a successful German artist who lives for years in the Big Apple. We started a conversation and this one lasted until we arrived in JFK airport. I have to say this guy Clemens actually could talk even more than me! But all very entertaining so time was passing by quickly. We took the train and I took another bus to find the place I wanted to stay couchsurfing. A girl accompanied me and showed me the way to the building where I finally arrived. My host Anthony lives at the 39th level and the view is great. Maybe not as great as it could be if it wasn’t raining. But still impressing. Actually I am not even the only couchsurfer at his place at the moment. Another girl from Lithuania stays at his place already since a few days.

I took this snapshot while sitting in the train to Manhattan… Typical NYC!
Look closer… Can you tell me what is wrong?

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Temples and palace in Bangkok

Posted by admin On November - 23 - 2009
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Malapascua Island

Posted by admin On October - 21 - 2009
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Seeing the tarsier!

Posted by admin On October - 17 - 2009

Leaving Crystal Lodge

Posted by admin On October - 13 - 2009
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Coron Island

Posted by admin On October - 11 - 2009

For me the most amazing place in the Philippines are the Palawan Islands. I stayed in Coron town and the people are simply lovely. The town is small and quite and I picked a typical Filipino house on stilts to stay – the Crystal Lodge. You really sleep in one of the houses over the water what has it typical charm… I loved it.
The family was great and one day I bought a tuna to do Sashimi and I had so much that I could share. The family invited me and gave me some mangrove crab instead and we laughed a lot… Will always remember that night.
Another day I shared a boat cruise with two french travelers I met. The cruise was around Coron Island and to the Kayangan Lake. we had several stops and in between it even started raining. Since I was already spoiled with Palau no much could impress me anymore in the Philippines. Then I saw the view of the top of the hill on the hike to Kayangan Lake and I have to admit  – it is amazing. This was worth climbing up. It put me a little off that even after paying the boat trip you had to pay for each spot they brought you and you get off the boat extra. Always keep that in mind. The lake was the most expensive place but the most worth it as well. Some of the spots are just nothing special. Just other beaches. I prefer then rather to stay longer at one beach than cruising to several ones and having not enough time to enjoy.

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Waterfall trip in Palau

Posted by admin On September - 20 - 2009

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