Hilton Americas

... got things situated in our room and headed down to do some sightseeing. Our first stop of the afternoon was the Aquarium of the Americas which was pretty much right next door. For being about 20 years old, they have kept the building and the exhibits in ...

... pelted them hard. This was the brunt of what we would get from Hurricane Dean. We then cleaned up and took a taxi to Plaza Las Americas, the biggest mall in the Caribbean. We had a coupon for a free bear at Build-a-Bear, so we got our bear, then ...

After our complimentary buffet breakfast at the DeLas Americas hotel we headed off down Santa Fe Avenue (opposite direction to last night) in search of a Post Office. We crossed De Julio Avenue, which is the very wide road that you have seen in travel ...

... tour bus for Philadelphia. Our tour guide was Marco from Italy who ironically spent the day giving us a run down on Americas history. Phillie was a clean cut city with much history and we discovered a thing called the Liberty Bell which ...

... no reservations about driving through Manhattan, so we scoured the internet for a hotel room for Friday night, eventually settling for the Hilton Garden Inn in New Jersey. Perhaps a summer weekend in NYC wasn't the smartest time to leave booking a room ...

... the intervening years I don't think they've done any upgrading. Our "cell" I suspect was a lot less plush than Paris Hilton's. However, after 2 nights we found really clean and comfortable accommodation for a much cheaper rate at the Lickana. (When I ...

... tend to think quite a bit of themselves. It all goes back to the Euro thing - they think they are the Paris of the Americas. It is uncomfortable going places when you are not dressed up as nice as everyone else and you feel like they are looking down at ...

... back to auckland, and had dinner up at the museum which was an old war building. also went sailing on auckland harbour in an americas cup boat. and the highlight was jumping off the auckland city sky tower.  tho i expected it to be more full on and ...

... ; As anybody from a Latin-American country will tell you, “American” refers to people from anywhere in the Americas; we in the United States have arrogantly taken that name exclusively for ourselves (shocker.)  However, the seeming lack ...

... a fulfilling 4 months, I suppose. Still beats working! ;) I'm going to need to start practicing my Spanish for The Americas: mi mono necesita mas tequila. mi mono esta muy boracho. a las senoritas les encanta Spanky. Costa Rica and ...

... walk indeed. In the background looms the grey menacing mass of Sabancaya (5,976m), one of the most active volcanoes in the Americas and its more docile neighbour, Ampato (6,288m). At random along the sides of the canyon there are springs where water ...

... other than what I've said above. I've still got the travel bug - it's probably worse than ever. There's Oz & NZ, The Americas, more of India & Nepal, China, Trans Siberian, Silk Road, more of Europe, more of Indonesia.... All I can say is watch ...

... will ever see. The area is owned by the Kuna Indians, the most traditional, politically independent group of Indigina in the Americas (not saying much really- the treatment of the other groups, is one of the great untold crimes against humanity- but ...

... have heard of, I know I hadn't. In its day, in the early part of the 17th century, it was the biggest city in the Americas, and bigger than any city in Europe. Its size and its wealth came from the mountain that dominates the city, which was, and still ...