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Jump to the full entry & travel map San cristobal, Ecuador Finally arrived at the Galapagos Islands. First stop is San Cristobal Island. The wildlife here is crazy. The animals here are so tame and so naive. They are not scared of human at all. Apparently, you can catch a bird with your barehand. So far, I have probably seen more sea li Right in the center of town, by the beach...
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Jump to the full entry & travel map Santiago, Chile This weekend we finally made our way into Santiago. We started by going up Cerro San Cristobal. Cerro is hill in Spanish so its this big hill looking over Santiago and they've put a statue of the virgin Mary up there. We took a cable car up to the top and took in the fantastic view over the city. From there we heading into the center and made...
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Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
... that the flooding had affected 1,085 houses in the communities El Rosario, Azua; Lucas Diaz, San Cristóbal, and Santo Domingo province COE also conducted mandatory evacuations in San Pedro, La Vega and Baní, and reported overflowing of the Isabela river, near Santo Domingo. On alert Although Gustav has moved away from the Dominican coasts, the authorities maintain red alert for the southwest...
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Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... reports of damages have been received from the southern provinces Azua, Peravia, Santo Domingo and San Cristóbal, where swelled rivers and flooding forced the evacuation of 872 families. Dams committee director Octavio Rodriguez said the water level at Sabana Yegua dam (south) is under control, as it was drained after Tropical Storm Fay.
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
SAN CRISTOBAL, Mexico Eighteen months after leaving office, former President Vicente Fox is taking a page from Jimmy Carter's playbook and engineering his legacy as a champion of democratic values and government transparency at home and abroad. Vicente Fox and his wife, Marta Sahagun de Fox, are welcomed to Sacramento by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, in 2006, when...
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
... they had the football on. Whist looking around we had met a couple of lads we’d originally met in San Cristobal. They were off to watch the second half and we caught up with them after our breakfast. In the afternoon the sun came out and we walked along the coastal path until we found a nice place to spend a few hours. Today was our anniversary, 3 years! We headed off to the Italian restaurant...
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
... that eats in the street at this early hour, the indio woman tells me she actually comes from San Cristobal de las Casas back in Mexico - she is Tzotzil I guess - but that ruthless land-hungry latino settlers have chased her family away killing two of her brothers and her father as well as the father of her five year old son who is sitting at her side. She wears a wooly black tunic in stead...
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Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
Caribbean satellite, from the Weather Channel. Santo Domingo.– The Emergencies Operations Center (COE) issued a red alert for three provincies, Barahona, Pedernales and Independencia, and yellow alert for San Cristóbal, San José de Ocoa, Azua, San Juan de la Maguana, Bahoruco, Dajabón, Monte Plata, Peravia, Santo Domingo and the National District.The provinces that keep under the green alert...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
... of the most invasive insects that can wreak havoc on a wide range of fruit crops, were found on San Cristobal and Santa Cruz islands.SESA said the med fly "poses a high risk to the preservation of native plants and several crops in the farming sectors of the islands".Measures to contain the infestation include restricting the transportation of plants from the mainland and between the islands...
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Santiago, Chile 19/08/2008 We arrived in late, very pleased to be in Santiago in time for our flight. 20/08/2008 Up late for our last full day in South America. Feeling lazy but forced ourselves out to have a look around Satiago. We took the Metro (train but bus but train, see photo) to the base of Cerro San Cristobal (a big hill) and headed up 485m to the...
