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18 April – 19 April
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Lima, Peru
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20 April – 28 April
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The Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu
and Cusco
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29 April – 2 May
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Puno and Lake Titicaca
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3 May – 5 May
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Chivay – Colca Canyon
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6 May – 7 May
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Arequipa
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17 March – 19 March
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Quito, Ecuador
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20 March – 24 March
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The Amazon, Cuyabeno
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25 March – 26 March
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Quito, Ecuador
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27 March – 4 April
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Road Trip – Quito to Guayaquil
Cotapaxi (Hacienda – ranch)
Baños
Cuenca
Guayaquil
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5 April – 17 April
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Galapagos Islands
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Squirrel Monkeys
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Yellow Handed Titi
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Wholly Monkeys
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Red Howlers
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Capuchins
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Pocket Monkey
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Night Monkeys
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Monk Saki
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40
to 50
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10
to 11
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10
to 45
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6
to 15
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10
to 35
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small
group
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small
group
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1
to 5
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The Stinky Turkey's real name is Hoizan Bird but the local name
is Stinky Turkeys. They eat a type of leaf that makes a funny smell and that is
why they are called Stinky Turkeys. The flycatchers I didn't see because they
were too fast. The wood packers were very cool because we heard them pecking
the tree. The Owl we saw when we were coming back from a swim. It turned its
head nearly the whole way around and it was very surprising.
We saw three caimans. They were called Dwarf, Speckled and
Black. The black caiman was in the water at the lodge looking at every one. The
speckled caiman we saw at night but only its eyes. The dwarf caiman we saw just
jumping in the water (only its splash).
We saw lots of animals like Coatis, Bats, Pink Dolphins, Fish, Sloth,
Tarantulas and Crab Spiders. The spiders we saw on night walks. The fish and
dolphins we saw at the same time and they were very cool. The sloth was hanging
from a tree and got up to eat leaves. The Coatis were running up a tree and the
bats were flying in the night. 
2 February – 6 February
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Santiago, Chile
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6 February – 19 February
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The Lakes Region – Chile/Argentina
Pucon, Chile
San Martin de los Andes, Argentina
San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
Puerto Varas, Chile
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19 February – 26 February
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Torres del Paine, Chile
(Patagonia)
Punta Arenas
Puerto Natales
Torres del Paine National Park
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26 February – 5 March
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Los Glaciares National Park,
Argentina (Patagonia)
El Calafate – Perito Moreno Glacier
El Chalten – Cerro (Mount) Fitzroy
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5 March – 13 March
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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13 March – 16 March
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Iguazu Falls, Argentina/Brazil
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During Bilbo's
adventures, he was almost captured by trolls and escaped in the nick of time. He takes on heaps of giant spiders single handedly. He steals food from under the King Wood Elf's
nose and he had a word battle with a real live dragon, all in one year. He was almost killed many times and was given
all the most dangerous tasks. However, I
think, all up, Bilbo rather enjoyed them because sixty years later he was caught
bragging about his many adventures. 
On their adventures, they meet new creatures. They meet Bard from Laketown (man), Beorn
(half man, half bear), Elrond (elf), The Eagles, Dain son of Nain (dwarves),
Ravens, the thrush, Lakemen, Wood elves, goblins, trolls and many get killed at
the end at the Battle of the Five Armies.
My family went to a beach called
Whangapoua. We walked through a lake and then washed our feet off. Soon we
started to climb the rocks that led to the track to New Chums Beach.
We'd
only been reading the Hobbit for a few days yet there we were at Hobbiton - the
set of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings films.
The Hobbit holes that the Hobbits live in were nothing like what I'd
imagined. They were round doors, all
different colours, with flowers and tables in their front garden. Hobbiton was better than I'd imagined with
the tree above Bilbo's Hobbit hole being fake and the tricks of size. Sir Peter Jackson would place Bilbo far away
to make him look smaller than Gandalf the wizard. Sir Peter Jackson was also a big fan of using
family and friends in the movies. For
example, when Sam comes home in Lord of the Rings the girl who runs up to him
is his daughter and his wife is holding her real baby. The funniest thing I learnt was that when
Gandalf walked into the Hobbit hole he didn't bump his head on purpose but they
left it in because it looked good.
We
went horse riding and I got the biggest and grumpiest horse of the lot. His name was Dale. I trotted, played and groomed the
horses. We got to saddle the horses,
mount them and we even got to
clean them at the end. At the end Dale
got away from me and I had to chase after him.
It was so much fun.
The Hot Water Beach was sooooooooooooo much fun. We dug in the sand finding a perfect spot
after a while. We dug and our hole
filled with water creating a sand spa.
We covered Daddy in sand and he was gross to look at. We would run in the water to get
cold and we would jump in the waves and surf them too. When we went back to the spa it felt like
larva especially if you had been dunked by Daddy. 
We went rafting in a boat and we had to row through rocks and
rapids. Only one wave drenched us but it
did more than that… we were almost flipped.
Half way through we got to feed the trout dark chocolate chips or so I
thought. J. Kaelie and I tried to fall out of the raft
and at the end I almost disappeared down the rapids until a I realised I could
stand up. J. 
We got to surf on a boogie board down two huge sand dunes – one with
time to stop – one with splash water. I
went once with Mummy on each dune and the same with Daddy. I went twice alone on the sand dune zooming down on my
aqua board. The splash dune went so much
faster and I had my toe breaks in the whole time – at least more than the smaller
dune.
We walked in a thermal wonderland park and watched an erupting
geyser. The ranger made it erupt and it
was only meant to erupt 2 or 3 metres but it erupted 7 or 8. It was so cool and I think it erupted high
because it was naturally going to erupt anyway. It was found by prisoners who were washing and dropped soap in the
lake. It erupted taking the prisoner’s
clothes with it and they had to go off and search for their clothes.