Following in the footsteps of Colonel Fawcett

Following in the footsteps of Colonel Fawcett

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Following in the footsteps of Colonel Fawcett

Colonel Fawcett was an English army officer who waas aked by the governments of Peru and Bolivia, 1906/07, 1910 , 1911 & 1913 to deliniated the boundaries between the two countries as well as the boundaries between Bolivia and Brasil in the years 1908/09, 1914, 1920/21 & 1925. Using the book writen by his son, we will follow his paths and make this into two great journeys. The journey of 1925 was where Fawcett, his son Jack, and a friend "dissapeared, in Brasil, while searching for the "lost white tribe."

The Colonel

http://www.phfawcettsweb.org/play.htm

http://www.louislamourslosttreasures.com/Lost_Treasures/lostcitymanos_2.htm

http://www.unmuseum.org/fawcett.htm

Bolivia

The landlock country of South America

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mapshells/south_america/bolivia/bolivia.htm

Colonel Fawcett began his first journey in 1906. He had to deliniate the boundary between Bolivia & Peru. We will travel in his footsteps, beginning in La Paz, travelling down the Rio Beni looking at some river towns such as Rurenabaque, Riberalta, Villa Bella, Porvenir and Cobija. These towns 100 years ago we primitive, have they changed?

La Paz

Capital of Bolivia

http://home.t-online.de/home/dobras/

http://www.budgettravel.com/bolivia.htm

TIAHUANACO

PRE INCA

http://www.crystalinks.com/tiahuanaco.html

SORATA

Fawcett's first stop over the Andes

http://www.andeantravelweb.com/bolivia/destinations/sorata/

http://www.thewonderingeye.co.uk/Scripts/ImagePage.asp?ImageID=45

Mapiri

On the way to the Selva from the Andes

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0107/bolivia.html

Rio Mapiri

Follow the text from the Andes to the Amazon by reed boat

http://www.kotamama.com/frames/phase3/report18.htm

Rio Beni

http://fototrek-travel-photography.com/rurrenabaque.htm

Rurrenabaque

http://www.rurrenabaquebolivia.com/

Rio Tahuamanu

http://www.fmnh.org/research_collections/ecp/ecp_sites/rapidinventories/results_bolivia1.html

Madre De Dios

Flows through Peru, Bolivia & Brasil

http://www.enjoyperu.com/multimediagallery/index.html

Chocabamba

The garden city of Bolivia

http://www.boliviaweb.com/cities/cbba.htm

Rio Mamore

From a satellite

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16272

Mamore-Maderia Railway

Where men died for the sake of Rubber

http://www.calara.co.uk/SouthAmerica/Brazil/Railway.htm

Samaipata

Eastern Bolivia

http://www.farhorizon.com/south-america/archaeology_of_bolivia.htm

This is the expeditions of Fawcett in Bolivia & Brasil durning 1908/09, 1914, 1920/21 & his final expedition in 1925, when he and his party disappeared. We will be travelling into the Matto Grosso, Santa Cruz, Corumba, Cuiba and crossing the Rios Verde, Colorado, Xingu & the Sao Francisco

The Pantanal, where Corumba is, one of the great wet lands in the world. The city of Corumba is a boarder town with Bolivia, a place where you have to be careful.

http://www.worldisround.com/articles/11320/

Cuiba

Rio Paraguay

http://www.brazils-hotels.com/cuiaba_hotels.htm

Santa Cruz

Bolivia

http://www.enjoybolivia.com/english/guiadestinos/santacruz/INTRO_IN.shtml

Xingu

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=15775

Rio Sao Francisco

Brasil

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?1271

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