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		<title>Video of Packrafting the Rio Bocay</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 20:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no doubt about it. Packrafting in Nicaragua was one of the highlights of my journey through central America. Apologies for not yet finishing the blog of the trip. I will do it. In the meantime though, here&#8217;s a video of the bus ride from Jinotega and the following four days paddling it took to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review of Aquapac Waterproof cases and Exped drybags</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 07:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were two reasons I wanted to protect all my gear in waterproof bags and cases. Firstly, my Ortlieb panniers are no longer waterproof, being scarred with small holes from the Africa ride. Since besides their waterproof properties, the panniers are still fully functional, I decided not to replace them yet. Therefore, to keep everything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video of the Congo Train Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 05:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I cycled 2,000km acros the DRC. But the DRC is a huge country, and that still didn&#8217;t get me all the way. So by the time I reached Katanga province, a train ride seemed like an appealing option. From then on I knew the roads would be better, the hassles fewer. Cycling here had little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video of Dogon Dama Mask Ceremony</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 09:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While in Mali, travelling with a friend and without the bike, we spent three days walking along the Bandiagara escarpment in Dogon country. It really is best to go with a guide. Mamadou, our guide, was a wealth of information and without him, much of what we saw would have been interesting but fairly meaningless. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video of Biking the Guineas&#8217; Backroads</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 08:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still one of my favourite parts for biking, was the three weeks we spent cycling from Guinea Bissau&#8217;s capital to Kindia in the south of Guinea on my ride through West Africa. The majority of the 1,000km (ish) was off-road. Guinea Bissau was wide orange dust tracks and narrow single-track paths through overgrown grass and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving the Best til Last &#8211; Backroads of Belize</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Lloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Belize]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With only a couple of weeks left until the end of this trip, where I fly out of Cancun, Mexico, I wanted just one more mini-adventure. And it would be in Belize. I had read on Cass Gilbert&#8217;s blog of an off-road route he had taken through northern Belize. Having missed the fun dirt-track biking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photos Belize &#8211; Backroads at their Best</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With only a couple of weeks left until my flight home from Cancun, I decided to spend it cycling the length of Belize, including off-road riding&#8230; Belize is a little country with a lot to offer. I didn&#8217;t make it to the most likely of places (not even the world&#8217;s 2nd largest reef), but I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photos of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Caribbean coast in Guatemala, we cycled inland and up hills to El Salvador. A brief stop in San Salvaldor to recuperate and we hit the cross-country route Honduras. And that was much harder than either of us expected&#8230; killer hills and roads not on our map. But it was fun too (in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crocodiles and Ray Mears</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;And so we survived our first day and night on the river. But who knows what the new day will bring&#8230; It brought crocodiles. The day started calmly. The early morning hovering mist had dispersed and a blue sky emerged. All was still except for the few birds that had missed the dawn chorus. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Honduran Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a good feeling to be reunited with the bike. No more at the mercy of rickety buses and well worn backpacker routes. Even cycling across Tegucigalpa was ok. Except we got lost. But then we were shown the way by a father and daughter in a large 4&#215;4. The last day in the [...]]]></description>
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