South America 2006

arrived in Puerto Madryn after a very luxurious over night bus ride (they give you sweeties,whisky,wine and everything it was ace). its a funny little town which has been built i think purely as a tourist gateway to the penninsula valdes and feels a bi...

 

Argentina Part 2

Cordoba is the second largest city in Argentina and is famous for having the first church and university in the Country, both built by the Jesuits in the 1600's. We had a morning to familiarise ourselves with this city before travelling further south. ...

 

A Short History of Toilets in South American

Villa de Leiva proved well worth the 4.5 hour bus ride to and from Bogota. This picturesque hilltop 16th-century village was declared a National Monument in 1954, so any furhter development on the 400 year old site must be carried out in the colonial ...

 

Salta

Apres un voyage de plus de 30heures, nous y voila. J entends encore les gens de buenos aires nous dire "mais pourquoi vous allez a Salta??? c est la pire saison, il va faire 40 degres!! Tu parles! il pleut des cordes et ca caille!!! L anecdot...

 

Latin America From Start to End,Lots of plans with No Plans,November 2006 until it Finishes

Nothing prepares you quite like flying in over the highest mountain outside of asia(Aconcagua) for the start of a trip. To see the andes from the air as my first view of South America is pretty mind blowing,you cant really put it into words.... then to...

 

Argentina July, 2004

Thursday - 22 July 04: We´re in Salta (the northernmost province of Argentina... near the borders of Boliva and Chile) right now... we arrived today after getting up at 4 a.m. to catch our flight from Bs.As... we were very tempted to give Gonzalo...

 

South America III: Back to Brasil - Oct 2006

Hi All, I’m currently sitting in Joburg, after being back a month in the homeland. What an adjustment – some things have changed (there are new shopping malls and even Haagen-Daz Ice-cream around the corner now), while some things have remained ...

 

um-die-welt 2007

Mit etwas Verspaetung komme ich endlich dazu hier ueber meine Erlebnisse auf dieser Reise zu berichten. Also Argentinien die Erste: Meine erste Station ist Buenos Aires. Eine Stadt mit Charme der Alten Welt vermischt mit einem kraeftigen Schuss Modern...

 

South America 05-06

Made it to the bus station in Santiago with about 10 minutes to spare- which usually puts me there before most of the Chileans. I had heard there may be snow on the pass, but the roads were clear, so we made it over with no problems. Well, it did tak...

 

The World Jaunt

Auckland...

 

Good Bye South America - I´ll Be Back

wow about time for some updating ... It was a happy moment when we finally arrived in Salta, Argentina. Tired and weiry we stumbled upon an awesome hostal (the first HI hostal we have stayed in) hot showers and bed. This followed a 9 hr train ride,...

 

Another time around...Spring 2007

I just had the longest week of my LIFE, but it was all well worth every minute of it (I laugh at it now, but believe me it was not funny then). So, Tim, Jasmine and I left LAX on Saturday Jan 27th at 11 am and arrived in Lima, Peru at 11 pm. We met R...

 

THE HOT ADVENTURES OF A NOT COLD BIATCH

Had to draaag myself out of bed and realised I had absolutely no idea what I had booked for myself so couldn't really pack for my overnight stay on an island on Lake Titicaca. So kept the rest of the group waiting while I, completely flustered, threw s...

 

RTW with Steph and Dion

Written by Dion August 11-12, 2006 We decided to spend a couple of days in Uruguay, so we boarded the 9:00AM Buquebus ferry from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay on Friday morning. The ferry itself was quite nice and the rid...

 

South America 2006

From Foz do Iguazu, we headed south in to Argentina and have had a few very long days driving. The first night, we had a "bush camp" enroute and pitched our tents in the middle of a forest with no-one for miles around us, it was good fun, ...