HAPPY NEW YEAR! Prospero Ano Novo! It´s Wee Cheng writing from Rio de Janeiro, the marvellous metropolis in southern Brazil. I arrived here on Sunday morning...
Dear All, I will strive to keep future postings short and perhaps once a week or two. For those who want to read more, I have created a new newsgroup called...
Dear All, This is the first posting for the nomadnotes newsgroup. I have also cross posted it onto the twc-nomad group as some of you are still in the process...
After a nice, relaxed stay in sunny but humid Rio where I tried my best to forget the English weather and survived the legendary crime rates (see “Shootings...
Rotting Away in Asuncion, Paraguay Flat, almost empty savannah plains interrupted by herds of cattle, isolated estancias (farms) and villages, and occasionally...
Dear All, I am now back in Santiago, capital of Chile, after a few wonderful days on the mysterious Easter Island, 4000 km west of South America, in the South...
Rapa Nui Easter Island: A Detour to the Chilean South Pacific Remember that movie Rapa Nui starring Jason Scott Lee ? It´s one of those films with a fantastic...
Chile, Moneda Palace and thoughts about Pinochet Chile, this is an amazingly long country, stretching 4300 km from north to south. Naturally it is also a...
Counting dead bodies, chewing coca leaves and feasting on llamas Puno, by Lake Titicaca, Peru. Since I left Santiago, I have been wondering through the...
Dear All, I have uploaded lots of photos onto the net. Go to: http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/lst Click on Chile - Mainland and Peru (followed...
Peru: Guinea pig for lunch, Disneyland meets the Inca ,and other strange tales of Lake Titicaca I am now writing from Cusco, the old capital of the Incas, an...
Peru - Machu the Picchu and visiting a SexyWoman in raining season I spent the past week in Cusco, once capital of the Inca Empire, one of the greatest land...
Meeting Miss Peru and pondering about sexual positions In the past week, I have escaped from the cold, wet Peruvian Highlands into the arid, desert plains of...
I fed on alligators and piranhas, and mosquitoes fed on me, Colombia tomorrow! Can you imagine a city with half a million people in the deep jungle,...
More photos have been uploaded at: http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/lst Click "Peru", followed by either "Nazca" or "Iquitos-Amazon". Apologies...
In Colombia Now! And a 2nd foray into Brazil. Woke out at 5:45am this morning to go to an air force base near Iquitos. It's a small 6 (excluding the two...
Trouble in Colombia and Slow Boat on the Amazon Shortly after that last email I sent in Leticia, Colombia, parts of this Colombian city suddenly fell into...
Leaving Peru Into Ecuador: More gold, more bodies, more sex and lots of rain and misery After an exciting time in Iquitos and Leticia, I returned to Lima...
Galapagos: We swam with sharks, sea lions, penguins and iguanas Imagine this: You get up after sun rise and found the boat off a green island topped by...
Quito, Ecuador: Life is a philosophy at high altitudes I arrived in Ecuador two weeks ago from Peru. The endless banana plantations of El Oro ("Gold")...
A para in my previous posting has prompted a curious note from a friend: After one of the several nights of excesses, I climbed Mt Cotapaxi but forgot that I...
Dear All, I have fully uploaded my photos of Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. Go to this page and click on Ecuador and Galapagos albums for the numerous...
Colombia: Fun in Bogota and wondering about the war "By that lake of Guatavita they made a great raft of reeds... They undressed the heir, anoited him with...
Cartagena, Colombia: Exploring History and Survival Guide to Guerillas & Dead-squads in Colombia After Bogota, I flew to Cartagena, Colombia's famous historic...
Costa Rica: Rice and Beans, Beans and Rice. "In Macondo, nothing has happened, nor is happening, nor will ever happen." Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred...
Nicaragua: Bulls’ testicles in the land of fire and revolution Nicaragua may be yet another land of volcanoes (remember how tired I have become of volcanoes...
Mad Rush Through Honduras, El Salvador & Belize Late, late, late. WeeCheng is behind schedule, and so he had to rush through Honduras, El Salvador and Belize....
For the Maya, time was born and had a name when the sky didn’t exist and the earth had not yet awakened. The days set out from the east and started walking. ...
Chiapas & Oaxaca, Mexico: Mayan Gods, Fried Grasshoppers & Beheaded Saints The incense has blackened the ceiling of the cathedral. The worshippers chanted...
Mexico: Tacos with Ants Eggs, Pretending to be a Beijing Commie and lots of Dead Bodies I am now in Puerto Veracruz, almost at the end of my journey through...
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