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Peru – More Pics of Posada Amazonas

Posted in Travel on Nov 30th, 2006

Tres Chimbadas Oxbow Lake One thing I can’t do with my camera is to take wildlife pictures; mainly because it doesn’t have a very good zoom, only 3x. But knowing Vince and Tyatt have a SLR camera with a good lens, I didn’t bother to take pictures of things that are a little far away, […]

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GINI Wine Taste VI: GSM

Posted in Food and drink on Nov 24th, 2006

Ok, a break from the Peru trip. This edition of GINI Wine Taste actually happened back in October the 21st. I “need” to blog this now because we will be having another wine taste this weekend. My memory is a little hazy on this October wine taste; I was super busy both at work […]

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Peru – Lowlight of my trip

Posted in Travel on Nov 19th, 2006

Alpaca Farm, Cusco->Puno Originally uploaded by Vincent Ma. When: Day 11 Location: On the road, from Cusco to Puno In the itinerary, this day, we “enjoy spectacular views of the countryside of this full day of travel through the high Altiplano from Cuzco to Puno.” That’s it, that’s all the description for day 11. While […]

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Peru – Posada Amazonas

Posted in Travel on Nov 14th, 2006

When: Day 2 to 4 (2 nights) Location: Closest city Puerto Maldonado; half hour drive to the Tambopata River, then an hour boat ride up the river More Info: http://www.perunature.com/lodges_pa.php From Posada Amazonas Before going on this trip, a friend of mine and I were talking about the rainforest jungle part of the trip. He […]

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Reviewing packing list for Peru trip

Posted in Travel on Nov 13th, 2006

Before going on this trip, I spent quite a bit of time and money on getting stuff in preparing for the trip. It turns out not everything I got was that useful. In fact, there were times we had to re-pack our luggages and leave behind some of the stuff at the hotel, so I […]

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Only 500 Pics per month in MSN Spaces

Posted in Computers and Internet on Nov 13th, 2006

I just found that out the hard way. I was so close to uploading them all; just 20+ more pictures of Lima. Oh well, I guess I’ll have to wait for another 2 weeks or so.

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