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My travel-homepage: http://www.metteks.dk
My name is Mette, and I am 31. After 8 years in Copenhagen, I now live in Kolding, Denmark. I work as a schoolteacher here.
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
Luxor (Egypt) 2009
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Most recent trip I went to Uganda, Africa with my parents and siblings in July 2007. My dad works there as a consultant for a big farmer 4-5 times a year and he invited us to see the farm and the country. It was my first time to Africa and was fantastic. I love South America and didn't think that Uganda would touch me as deep, but it did. The landscape and wildlife was great and the people were so kind, and the little kids running along the roads smiling, waving and yelling hello were so cute. I hope I can go back in the near future. | | | Lion at Murchison Falls National Park |
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| | The future
For the first time in years I don't have any travel plans. A year ago, my boyfriend and I bought a house/former farm in the countryside near Kolding. We have used the last year to completely restore the house, and we are not yet finished. The setting is fantastic and even though we do not yet live there, we absolutely love the place.
It is next to the fields, close to a little village and next to a little forest, form where the deer visit our garden.
It isn’t travel adventure, but still it is a great ride.
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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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Stephanie Tue Feb 10, 2009 01:14 UTC
Hi Mette - I just wanted to stop by and say Hi and thank you for being our Tip Grouper for Copenhagen :))) Stephanie | Makart Wed Dec 17, 2008 05:53 UTC
Impressive travelogue. | a2lopes Mon Sep 22, 2008 09:54 UTC
Happy birthday and many happy returns of the day. Greetings from Lisbon which is waiting for your revisit next year for the Euromeeting | OH_DK Mon Sep 22, 2008 05:45 UTC
Tillykke med Fødselsdagen! Flot billede af volcan agua på din åbningsside. |
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