Argentina
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Monday, 12 Jan 2009 | Views [182]
A Bolivian approached us as we waited to get our bags off the bus, touting the “Life House Hostel” and promising free transport. We had been contemplating other places but we decided to go for a bit of randomness, seeing as we had never planned to ... Read more >
Tags: bike, blood, storm, rain
Saturday, 10 Jan 2009 | Views [244] | Comments [2]
I have already briefly described South American long distance buses as being quite luxurious and well equipped compared to many European bus journeys I've been on. We thought our last 12 hour plus journey in the continent deserved a blog of its own.... Read more >
Tags: bus, bingo
Friday, 9 Jan 2009 | Views [138]
As
it was high season we decided to book ahead in Bariloche and arranged
to stay at a place a few km out of town (Alaska Hostel). We said our
bon voyages to Aisling and Keith at the terminal and jumped on
another ... Read more >
Tags: lakes, biking, asado
Wednesday, 7 Jan 2009 | Views [298] | Comments [1]
The
first time I had heard of El Bolson was when a friend recounted a
tale about a friend of hers when in Buenos Aires. It had been settled
(if that's the right word) by a bunch of hippies in the late
seventies ... Read more >
Tags: trekking, hostel, fair, hippy, hat
Thursday, 1 Jan 2009 | Views [218]
The night journey across the continent towards Esquel was pleasant enough, although I thought I had left a bag containing all my gadgets behind. A man got on selling hand-made wooden rosary beads which I bought as a sort of superstitious insurance ... Read more >
Tags: trekking, party, lake, mountain, fireworks
Tuesday, 30 Dec 2008 | Views [279] | Comments [1]
In 1852 a number of Welsh settlers arrived in Puerto Madryn and worked their way south and west before they got to the Chubut valley which they decided was the spot for them and promptly irrigated, We arrived in the heat of the mid afternoon ... Read more >
Tags: museum, wildlife, tea, cake, mad people
Friday, 26 Dec 2008 | Views [216]
The bus was warm and smelt distinctlly of feet as we found our seats. It had been delayed for 2 hours and Retiro was packed with throngs of people heavily laden with Christmas miscellanea. Puerto Madryn, in Chubut province in Patagonia was 18 hours ... Read more >
Tags: wildlife, christmas, fireworks, whale
Monday, 22 Dec 2008 | Views [254] | Comments [2]
t was always going to be a challenge to meet Marcos. I had taken the precaution of trying to text him suggesting we meet at the train terminal but without a phone it wasn't going to be easy. We spoke briefly and arranged to meet outside McDonalds but ... Read more >
Tags: delta, old friends, party, parrilla, package
Monday, 15 Dec 2008 | Views [201]
It
was a bit disorientating in the taxi at first. The street names
didn't seem familiar and I had lost my sense of direction. Gradually
Buenos Aires started to reveal itself as we approached our rented
apartment ... Read more >
Tags: protests, apartment, theft, old friends
Monday, 17 Nov 2008 | Views [553] | Comments [1] | Video
It was only a five hour bus ride from San Ignacio to Iguazu but it was jammers when it came along so we were wedged between the toilet and the stairs for a good part of it. My solution (as I already mentioned in the Paraguay entry) was to write the blog ... Read more >
Tags: waterfalls, hyderoelectric, power station, dam, brazil
Saturday, 15 Nov 2008 | Views [369]
In the 1600s the Jesuits created a large number of missions in the lowlands of contemporary Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay with a view to evangelising the local Guarani Indian population. Most of the missions were destroyed in the wars between those ... Read more >
Tags: jesuit mission, ruins, hi, pool
Wednesday, 12 Nov 2008 | Views [247]
We got up early for a quick brekkie in the bus terminal and a minibus to Cafayate, one of the centre of wine making in the Salta region. Our mission was to be wine based for the day and shrug off the damage that Bolivian Rum had left in its wake. The ... Read more >
Tags: wine, meat, old cars, vineyards, thermos, mate
