Trip: The World Part 4
There are [466] stories from my trip: The World Part 4
PERU | Monday, 20 Jan 2025 | Photo Gallery
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ARGENTINA | Sunday, 19 Jan 2025 | Views [58]
WHENEVER CONNIE ASKED CARLOS when we could hope to see a particular bird on her hit list, he replied, “Abra Pampa.” Well, here we are—or as near as possible with decent lodging, restaurants and at a “reasonable” altitude ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Friday, 17 Jan 2025 | Views [56]
CARLOS WENT OUT OF HIS WAY to show us some of his Jujuy (hoo-hoo-ay) Province. Yesterday we drove 300 kilometers from Chicoana to Salinas Grandes, stopping only for lunch in Purmamarca at the spectacular Hotel El Manantial del Silencio, undeniably the ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Wednesday, 15 Jan 2025 | Views [54]
WHILE WE HADN’T PLANNED IT THAT WAY, our time in South America is turning into another birding expedition. Diego, our guide in the Iberá wetlands, hooked us up with a fellow guide in Salta. Carlos is more than just a guide. He spends most ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Monday, 6 Jan 2025 | Views [69]
WE GAVE SALTA SHORT SHRIFT on our 2013 visit. Our MacBook had died and we were anxious to get to Iguasu Falls and meet with friends from the States who were bringing a replacement. We will be in the area for the next couple of weeks and hope to remedy ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Friday, 3 Jan 2025 | Views [92]
A DAY MAY STILL HAVE TWENTY-FOUR hours but the years seem to be passing more quickly. It seems like like only yesterday that we were getting haircuts in Bali and it really was yesterday we both got haircuts here in Cordoba. Argentina, that is, not Cordoba ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Monday, 30 Dec 2024 | Views [75]
AFTER A NON-EVENTFUL CHRISTMAS IN BA we moved on to Cordoba, the second largest city in Argentina. Although it’s only 450 miles from Buenos Aires we decided fly—we’re no longer bus-riding backpackers if there are other options. And ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Saturday, 21 Dec 2024 | Views [55]
COLONIA CARLOS PELLEGRINI is the hub of the Iberá Wetlands. It consists of Park Headquarters, six hundred residents, a half-dozen lodges and three restaurants—only one of which is open at any given time. We knew we had arrived when we clickety-... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Thursday, 19 Dec 2024 | Views [68]
CONNIE FOUND SANDPIPER BIRDING on the Internet and arranged for owner Diego to guide us for five days of birding. After a late start Wednesday—traffic in BA is a bitch—we headed to Ceibas, a wide spot on the road about 165 km from the city.... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Tuesday, 17 Dec 2024 | Views [60]
JUDGING ONLY BY THE ARTISTS represented, we could have been at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris or the Met in NYC. Surprise— Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes is in Buenos Aires! We took advantage of “Oosterdam’s” overnight ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Monday, 16 Dec 2024 | Photo Gallery
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URUGUAY | Friday, 13 Dec 2024 | Views [105]
WE THOUGHT WE HAD BEEN TO MONTEVIDEO in 2012 when in fact we had taken the ferry from Buenos Aires to Colonia del Sacramento, over one hundred miles away. No wonder we didn't recognize anything!
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FALKLAND ISLANDS | Tuesday, 10 Dec 2024 | Views [134]
FOR GREAT BRITAIN THE FALKLAND ISLANDS are strategic. For Argentina Islas Malvinas are a matter of Pride. For Oosterdam , it’s all about penguins! Colonies of Gentoo and Magellanic Penguins—even some King Penguins—nest on the islands ... Read more >
FALKLAND ISLANDS | Tuesday, 10 Dec 2024 | Photo Gallery
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ARGENTINA | Monday, 9 Dec 2024 | Views [118]
WE ARE OFFICIALLY “MOSSBACKS” and have the right to wear a hoop earring in our left ear. “Rounding the Horn” doesn’t have the same significance today that it did in the days of wooden sailing ships—especially today-... Read more >
CHILE | Sunday, 8 Dec 2024 | Views [81]
HISTORICALLY—BEFORE THE PANAMA CANAL—the main reason to go to Punta Arenas was to continue on to somewhere else. Magellan and his fleet didn’t tarry long, leaving only his name. Ernest Shackleton, Raold Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott ... Read more >
CHILE | Friday, 6 Dec 2024 | Views [173]
EVEN FOUR DECKS UP, SPRAY FROM the bow streamed down our balcony windows. Oosterdam had been fighting gale-force winds and three-meter waves since we sailed back into the Pacific. Everyone was weaving like winos on a Friday night and the west wind ... Read more >
CHILE | Wednesday, 4 Dec 2024 | Views [74]
IN A PERFECT WORLD WE WOULD stick around this part of Patagonia for a week or so—I would also be twenty years younger. Puerto Varas on Lago Llanquihue is the adventure center for hiking, birding and fishing but to get here you first have to go ... Read more >
CHILE | Sunday, 1 Dec 2024 | Views [60]
PUERTO COQUIMBO LOOKED BETTER at dawn with its signature stick-figure concrete cross lighted than when we went ashore later Saturday morning. And in morning’s light we could see some of the wrecks that littered the harbor—another reason to ... Read more >
PERU | Wednesday, 27 Nov 2024 | Views [76]
CALLAO IS A PORT FOR CARGO SHIPS and Oosterdam stood out like an evening gown at Walmart. We docked around 2 PM Sunday and would be in port until Tuesday evening, just time enough for the well-heeled to take the Holland America excursion to Machu Picchu ... Read more >
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