VirtualTourist Member metteks
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My travel-homepage: http://www.metteks.dk
My name is Mette, and I am 28. I live in Copenhagen, Denmark. I have just finished my studies, so I am now a schoolteacher.
I really love traveling. Sometimes it is the only thing I can think about, then it helps a little, but only a little to work on my homepage or at my pages here at VT. Sometimes it doesn?t help, I just get more frustrated and want to travel more. |
| Children in Peguche, Otavalo, Ecuador |
|  | How I like to travel When I travel I like the local stuff. I take local busses in stead of pricey air-conditioned tourist busses, I eat local food at street corners (and have never gotten sick from that) and I stay in the cheapest family run places I can find. I don?t like the idea about flying between mayor towns, just to see the sights that all tourists see, and nothing else.
I don?t like to follow other tourists in a big group, and only does so, if I have to. I like to experience the locals, see how they live and what they do. I like going to small villages where there is no tourist sights and nothing to do, but to relax or walk around and observe the locals. This gives me many great experiences and is a cheap way of traveling too. |
My travel History My first real holliday outside my own country was to Iceland and The Faeroe Islands when I was 14 with my parents. After this trip followed a lot of holydays with my parents and quite a number of trips with my schools.
Then I finished the gymnasium and I went to Australia where I lived and worked on two fruit farms for 9 months.
Back home I started studying at university, but after 1? years I had have enough. So I worked hard, saved up some money and went to Latin America for 7 months. Here I re-learned Spanish, was a volunteer at a rainforest of Ecuador and traveled all the way to Mexico.
Now a days I still travel, but not that far away and not for so long time. I stay in Europe, but I still long for unusual places, where not so many tourists go, and have recently been to Croatia, Slovenia and Bulgaria. |  | | Puerto Momotombo, Nicaragua |
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|  | The places I have visited Sweden 1991 The Faroe Islands and Iceland 1992 Norway 1993 Ireland 1993 France 1993 Prague (Chezke Republik) 1994 Sweden and Finland 1994 Nederland and Bretagne( France) 1995 Rome (Italy) 1996 Bangkok (Thailand) and Australia 1997/98 Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico 2000/2001 Gotland (Sweden) 2001 Amsterdam (Nederland), Portugal, Barcelona (Spain), Bordeaux and Paris (France) 2002 Berlin (Germany) 2002 Bulgaria 2003 Sm?landsstenar (Sweden) 2003+2004 Slovenia, Croatia, Innsbruck (Austria) Venice and Verona (Italy) 2004 Tenerife (Canarie Island, Spain) 2005 Italy (Southern part) 2005 Slovakia 2005 Budapest (Hungary) 2006 Miami (USA), Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay 2006-2007 Uganda 2007 |
Most recent trip I have just returned home from a 6 month trip to South America. The first half of the trip I travelled with my boyfriend, then he had to go home to a new job. It was a fantastic trip, where I visited Miami, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. I saw so many amazing places and met so many great people. One day maybe I will get the time to upload some of all the photos. In the meantime, you can see some of them in our travelblog: http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Mads-og-Mette-i-Sydamerika |  | | Boy dragging a llama up - Isla del Sol, Bolivia |
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|  | The future In July I'll travel with my family (my parents and my brother and sister) to Uganda in Africa. My dad goes down there 4-5 times a year to give advise to a farmer with a big farm. We are going to visit the farm, the capital Kampala and we are going on a safari. |
Unesco World Heritage List Places on the Unesco list, that I have visited:
Argentina Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: San Ignacio Mini Iguazu National Park Jesuit Block of Córdoba Jesuit Estancias of Córdoba: Jesus Maria, Alta Gracia Quebrada de Humahuaca
Australia Great Barrier Reef Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
Bolivia City of Potosí Historic City of Sucre Tiwanaku
Brazil Iguaçu National Park
Chile Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
Czech Republic Historic Centre of Prague
Denmark Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church Roskilde Cathedral Kronborg Castle
Ecuador City of Quito Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los R?os de Cuenca
France Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay Paris, Banks of the Seine
Guatemala Antigua Guatemala Tikal National Park
Honduras Maya Site of Copan
Hungary Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andr?ssy Avenue
Italy Historic Centre of Rome Venice and its Lagoon I Sassi di Matera Historic Centre of Naples The Trulli of Alberobello Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata Costiera Amalfitana City of Verona
Mexico Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal
Nicaragua Ruins of Le?n Viejo
Panama Archaeological Site of Panam? Viejo and Historic District of Panama
Peru City of Cuzco Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu Chan Chan Archaelogical Zone Historic Centre of Lima Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca Historical Centre of Arequipa
Portugal Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belem in Lisbon Historic Centre of Evora Cultural Landscape of Sintra Historic Centre of Oporto
Spain Works of Antoni Gaud?
Sweden Hanseatic Town of Visby
Uruguay Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia del Sacramento |  | | Pyramids of Chichen-Itza, Mexico |
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y2ketan2007 Thu Dec 6, 2007 19:03 UTC Your passport says it all . You are among a few vetran travelers here on VT.Most of us have only begun traveling ! Great pages ! | atufft Thu Nov 15, 2007 08:33 UTC Thanks Mette for paying homage to my humble Uspantan pages, as you are yourself quite a veteran traveler in Latin America...alan | takla73 Mon Sep 24, 2007 15:08 UTC Happy Birthday Mette and have a nice day Greeting from Alexandria Egypt TAKLA | aryantour Sat Sep 22, 2007 19:46 UTC Wishing you a very happy birthday :)Enjoy Hassan. |
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