Trip: South America
There are [37] stories from my trip: South America
COLOMBIA | Tuesday, 12 May 2009 | Views [318] | Comments [6]
Well I've gotta say, that I love the city of Bogota, it is most likely my favorite city we've come across on this trip! Our last stop in South America, Bogota, is a high mountain city, at 2600 meters(8500 feet) filled with color, cobblestone streets, ... Read more >
COLOMBIA | Wednesday, 6 May 2009 | Views [241] | Comments [2]
Cartagena, Colombia! When you say it, you need to have a strong spanish accent, remember that the "g" is pronounced like a "hey", and is sounds like this, Carta-hey-nah. It is a very cool city. Our first night in the city, ... Read more >
COLOMBIA | Tuesday, 28 Apr 2009 | Views [248] | Comments [4]
Parque National Tayrona is very close to Taganga, however, it is a climate world away. Taganga is in a scorched, hot desert-like coastland, and Tayrona NP is in a thick, humid, tropical jungle. We took the local bus from Santa Marta(right outside Taganga) ... Read more >
COLOMBIA | Sunday, 26 Apr 2009 | Views [168] | Comments [3]
I´ve gotta admit, Colombians have style. Getting into a taxi cab, the driver sipping a infinitely small cup of dark black colombian coffee(the first group of south americans who actually drink drip coffe, not instant), nice colombian guitar music in ... Read more >
PERU | Wednesday, 22 Apr 2009 | Views [192] | Comments [2]
The rest of our time in Lima flew by, not to mention the
arrival of Mom, Holly and Uncle Don! We spent the last few days befor ethey
showed up investigating the catacombs underneath Cathedral San Fransisco, exploring
the Lima gold museam, and ... Read more >
PERU | Friday, 10 Apr 2009 | Views [252] | Comments [2]
A lot has happened since we were in Huacachina. Pretty much everyone that I wrote about in the last blog left PSF(Pisco Sin Fronteras), and were replaced by a whole new crew. Iva and Irany from Croatia, Cameron from Arkansas, Aden from Korea, Abi ... Read more >
PERU | Thursday, 26 Mar 2009 | Views [262] | Comments [2]
After leaving Arequipa, we pretty much headed directly downhill(in elevation) and straight to the coast. After a full day of traveling we found ourselves in Pisco, a medium sized coastal city that was struck by an 8.0 earthquake in 2007, and has lots ... Read more >
PERU | Tuesday, 17 Mar 2009 | Views [331] | Comments [5]
We got into Arequipa, Peru all 7 of us, the 4 british and us 3. We caught two of the super small mini taxis that are everywhere here in Arequipa, and arrived at our new hostel, which apperently, we now own! We were the only people in the whole hostel, ... Read more >
BOLIVIA | Monday, 9 Mar 2009 | Views [361] | Comments [7]
La Paz is an awesome city, however let me backtrack to where I left off. After leaving Sucre, we headed to Potosí (I had to pee so bad on the bus ride) to do a tour of Cerro Rico, the richest silver mine in the world. Getting into Potosí it was evident ... Read more >
BOLIVIA | Sunday, 1 Mar 2009 | Views [300] | Comments [3]
So we arrived into Sucre right as the sun was peeking up over the mountains. Already from the description, I know that Sucre was described as the “White City”, “La Ciudad Blanco”. Even though is was barely light out, I could tell that all the buildings ... Read more >
BOLIVIA | Wednesday, 25 Feb 2009 | Views [185] | Comments [4]
Our first stop in Bolivia, outside the Salar is a little town called Uyuni. We finished off our 3 day trip across the desert and wound up in at a small residencia (like a hostel) in a single room, with a private bathroom right by the main strip in ... Read more >
BOLIVIA | Saturday, 21 Feb 2009 | Views [378] | Comments [5]
Waking up at 8 was not too much of a challenge, we are finally headed to Salar Del Uyuni! We walked over to our tourcompany and mat the people who we would spend the next 3 days with. 5 Brasileanos, an Aussi, a Brit, and a girl from the USA. We all ... Read more >
CHILE | Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009 | Views [201] | Comments [1]
So our Second day in Pucón started with a rainstorm and we decided not to head to the national park. Our hosts, Kate and Tom gave us directions to the river, and let us borrow their bikes, (only two) to head out there. Pucón is in a beautiful location ... Read more >
CHILE | Tuesday, 10 Feb 2009 | Views [170] | Comments [2]
Hey everyone! Everything is going really well for us, however, we are in an area with expensive and poor internet connection. We finished off our Pucon trip, headed to Santiago for a few days, and now we are in San Pedro de Atacama, about to go on a ... Read more >
CHILE | Monday, 2 Feb 2009 | Views [514] | Comments [10]
Once we left Puerto Natales, we headed to Punta Arenas for an uneventful 15 hours, and then got on our 30 hour bus ride to the Lake district of Argentina and Chile. Originally we were supposed to go to Puerto Montt, but while we were under way we made ... Read more >
CHILE | Wednesday, 28 Jan 2009 | Views [232] | Comments [8]
Our time in Puerto Natales was mostly reading books, knitting a new hat(this time out of rainbow colored alpaca wool)and studying some spanish. In the end we probably could have hitch hiked out of here, because I did not realize how long the 5 days ... Read more >
CHILE | Saturday, 24 Jan 2009 | Views [241] | Comments [3]
Today we will finally start our journey out of Tierra del Fuego! From Rio Grande, we decided to wash laundry get some food, and hitchhike to Chile! After we finished all our preparations, we headed to the highway, a little late, like 4:00 PM. At the ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Wednesday, 21 Jan 2009 | Views [367] | Comments [10]
Ushuaia is such a nice little town. It reminds me a little of Burlington, Vermont, gut really it is its own city. The main drag is small with many shows on both sides, and colorful and warm looking buildings. The whole city has a the warm feel that ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Friday, 16 Jan 2009 | Views [321] | Comments [7]
So leaving Rio Grande by bus costs more then our budget allows, so we had to resort to our old way of transport, Hitch hiking! We walked to the edge of town, stuck our thumbs out, and waited.... 1/2 hour went by, and we needed to change our strategy.... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Thursday, 15 Jan 2009 | Views [262] | Comments [6]
Our campground in Las Grutas turned out to be a quite nice place. There were many people who came top us and talked to us, because we were the only foreigners there. Everyone was friendly, and by the time we left, we had made some new friends. In ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Monday, 12 Jan 2009 | Views [301] | Comments [9]
Our last few hours in Buenos Aires we walked around looking for some last minute things, ( a maté kit, train tickets) when we realized our train will not be working until february 6th! Bummer! So our plan to take the train from Las Grutas to Bariloche ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Friday, 9 Jan 2009 | Views [431] | Comments [4]
La Bomba de Tiempo is a really exciting event that happens here in Buenos Aires every monday night in the district, "Once". There is a group of drummers and other percussionists about 15 of them, and each monday there is a new conductor from ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Tuesday, 6 Jan 2009 | Views [301] | Comments [11]
OK... For those of you who think all we are doing is eating/drinking/sleeping/sightseeing, you a very much mistaken. It just seems that those are the easiest things to write about, and even though I mention other things, I fail to go into large detail ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Friday, 2 Jan 2009 | Views [318] | Comments [3]
Finnally! a couchsurfer has found room to host us! It was been very difficult finding a couchsurfer host here in Buenos Aires. I guess it is the time of year, and the craziness of the city. We rounded out our 4th day in Buenos Aires walking around town, ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Tuesday, 30 Dec 2008 | Views [450] | Comments [2]
If you may have noticed, I posted about 9 more pictures of brasil in the photo album! Argentina pictures will come next! Also, regarding comments made in the christmas blog, Our first priority on the trip if to learn spanish, and then we will volunteer, ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Friday, 26 Dec 2008 | Views [350] | Comments [4]
Our last few days in Rosario were a blur of meat, bread and people. Mostly a blur of meat. That being said, This afternoon we went to a hostel with the greek girl, Atanacia, and the swiss girl, Aline, and our Argentine friend, Genaro (notice I started ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Tuesday, 23 Dec 2008 | Views [455] | Comments [9]
Shortly after getting to Rosario, we met our friends parents, the father could speak some english, however the mother couldnt. They were both very nice, even though they were in a rush to get back to their hometown, 100km away from rosario. The apartment ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Saturday, 20 Dec 2008 | Views [220] | Comments [4]
Iguazú falls National Park is a true adventure of a park. Upon entering the trail to main falls you are already in rainforest with a walkway suspended about 15 feet over the ground. As you walk there are many openings where you are walking over the RIo ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Wednesday, 17 Dec 2008 | Views [584] | Comments [5]
Coração, Corazón, Heart, or Soul. Whatever word you use, Brazilians have it. Once I was on a bus, and as you know I can´t speak portuguese. The bus driver knew I couldn´t speak and He smiled, and help out with our bags, and gave me a big thumbs up, as ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 14 Dec 2008 | Views [277] | Comments [4]
So after the internet cafe last night, laina and headed to a restraunt in colonial Paraty, and met up with a new greek guy, the guy from israel, our brazilian frien and the two british guys. Then we headed to the bus station, "rodovario" to ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 13 Dec 2008 | Views [268] | Comments [8]
Ilha Grande´s streets are all sand, and there are no cars that are allowed on the island! I saw a tractor with a few brazilians hanging off the back pass by, but the whole island is traveled by on foot or by boat. So today we slept in and walked around ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 10 Dec 2008 | Views [313] | Comments [3]
So the camera situation is taking longer then i thought. Its hard since our camera doesnt work with all computers, you need some extra software for PCs, none for macs. So in the morning after our mangueira samba, we slept in until about 2 oclock. Laina ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 8 Dec 2008 | Views [222] | Comments [5]
Some responses to the comments(me gusta las commentes): Most of the people we have met have an overall positive outlook on gingos(thats what we are, because we are not technically "Americans" since brazilians are americans too) and they have ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 7 Dec 2008 | Views [255] | Comments [4]
We'd like to thank everyone for their comments! Answering some questions: Rio is 2 hours ahead of new york city, I(nick) am writing the blog, with help from laina for descriptions, pictures will come soon!, we just need to gather the cameras. Yesterday ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 6 Dec 2008 | Views [271] | Comments [8]
So last night when we got back from the internet cafe, which was our last stop on the way home, we settled down, and started getting ready to sleep, it had been a long day and our eyes were hardly staying open. After a few minutes, cristiana came home, ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 5 Dec 2008 | Views [324] | Comments [7]
So today we made it to Brasil!!It is so wonderful here! It was a struggle to get here , but much worth it! After 3 Long days of flying and flying we cover about 8k miles to get here. I got the 12 hour flu the day before we left boise, so i was alright.... Read more >
USA | Monday, 1 Dec 2008 | Views [197] | Comments [3]
I had fun with my Family in Connecticut
