Southern Sun or Tambo

... Airlines is STILL the only airline to lose my luggage. Yes I am bitter.) Anyway, I took the shuttle to the Southern Sun Hotel at the O.R. Tambo Jo'berg airport where mom was staying and met her about 8:30 a.m. I immediately jumped in the shower and ...

... We enjoyed seeing her beautiful apartment in Barcelona and walking the winding, cobblestone streets of her "hood".We ate paella in the sun at a tiny beachside restaurant and developed a new love of Spanish wines. We met the great staff of Urban Junkies in ...

... into the vastness of an Andean night sky.  There is no sound, no artificial light – the stars, including the Southern Cross, burn with the intensity and clarity that would have been familiar to the original Inca inhabitants.   ...

... but never is seen around". Thus spake Black Sabbath, those great philosophers, when telling us it was the Sign of the Southern Cross. Personally, I have never noted such phenomena, but possibly I haven't been looking hard enough. See their classic album ...

... on the radar.  By 1430AD, the Inca began their rapid takeover conquering and incorporating most of the area from Southern Colombia to Central Chile.  The Inca are famous for building mountain top cities, including Machu Picchu ...

... Afrikaaners had no more right to those materials than the British. They did the same, and worse, to the black populations of Southern Africa. No white man's war can be justified in this continent. Being here opens your eyes to so much...the black people ...

... areas are however the perfect Inca no joint stonework eg around the three temples and the sundial. One highlight was the Southern Cross stone - in the shape of the Southern Cross with the four corners pointing exactly to the cardinal directions....proven ...

... it is the last official campsite before Machu Picchu, hence it's always full. This was our last campsite. A short trail leaves from the southern end of the hostal to the ruins of Wiñay Wayna. The name in Quechua means 'forever young' and is named after ...

... it to the Discovery Channel to see if they wanted to purchase such exciting footage. After ten days our short trip to the Southern tip of Africa was over. And we both agreed that the media hype about car-jackings and crime in general was over inflated, ...

... Inca Trail. We made a later start than the previous day, and hopped on a bus to Tipon, about an hour´s drive away in the Southern Valley to the east of Cusco. From the road where the bus dropped us off, we walked for about 40 minutes or so through the ...

... made some great strides here. There's also the surf. The movie Endless Summer was one of my first introductions to this southern most country and it showed me a break that seemed to go on for eternity. Sure the waters are notoriously infested with ...

... or, as they like to say here Conquistadores, showed up, they had created a unified "state" that encompassed southern Ecaudor to Northern Chile and Argentina. They had sophisticated agricultural techniques, including terracing, aqueducts, and irrigation ...

... time we got to the small village of Zapahuira at 3300m, all of us and the vehicles were noticing the change in altitude. The southern sides of the hills now though were dotted with a low green bush some of which was in flower which was pleasant after the ...

The last couple of weeks in South Africa for us was spent busy sorting our our lives that we would be leaving behind... work, home, family and friends. So for our last night we decided to book ourselves into a luxury hotel, to help us ...

    Perhaps the location of this entry is deceiving - there won't be much about Johannesburg here...and it is not even because as far as big South African cities go - Johannesburg is much less interesting than Cape Town...it's just ...