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
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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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