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| 10/12/2009 | Judy Goodman | |
| Uruguay Atlantic Coast Ride | |
| This is a great ride for sightseers – people who want to see the countryside from the back of a horse. It is not really a ride for those of us who love to ride. Careful planning has gone into the itinerary to show guests the diversity of Uruguay from irrigated rice fields, rolling grasslands to strangler fig forests and miles of magnificent deserted beaches. However the riding seems less important than the sightseeing. One surprise was the flatness. I had read that Uruguay was flat and was still astonished by the flatness. You can see forever. The only “mountain” was a small hill outside of Montevido, proudly pointed out to us on a city tour. | |
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| 7/29/2009 | Judy Goodman | |
| Ride Across Patagonia | |
| Estancia to Estancia in Patagonia sounds remote and exotic. And it is. Fast riding on wide open grasslands without a road or house in sight just cattle, deer, guanocos and the occasional rhea on the skyline. So far after 30 rides, this is maybe my favourite one. Patagonia is a vast area partly in Argentina and partly in Chile bounded by the Andes on the west and a desert on the east. Settlement started in the early 1900’s with Europeans buying vast estancias of thousands of acres and there is still a self sufficient frontier like feel. | |
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| 4/12/2009 | Judy Goodman | |
| Spain’s Med Coast Ride from Can Jou | |
| The Med coast ride goes from Can Jou, a restored 11th century farmhouse down to the Mediterranean coast at Cap Creus. | |
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| 3/13/2009 | By Judy Goodman | |
| "Big 5" Horse Safari - South Africa | |
| Lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant and rhino -- the famous "Big 5". I did not see lion so I will have to go back. The “Big 5” safari allows you to see two quite different areas and offers great opportunities to see game. It combines four days of riding in South Africa’s Waterberg and four days of riding in Botswana’s Mashatu Game Reserve. The South African portion is run by Horizon Horseback Adventures and Limpopo Valley Horse Safaris runs the second four days in south eastern Botswana. | |
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| 2/7/2009 | Judy Goodman | |
| African Horseback Safaris - Botswana's Okavango Delta | |
| Riding in Africa has been something we talked about for years but never did -- all those scary things like political unrest and violence, malaria bearing mosquitoes waiting to bite you, black mambas waiting to strike followed closely by charging lions or rhinos. Every year when the catalogues from the riding trip agents turned up in the mail, we read them and talked about going to Africa and then chickened out. In 2007 we decide to either do it or stop talking about it. And my advice is just go! | |
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