day 9...my credit card has still not arrived... i am begining to feel like i am stuck in an episode of survivor living off dodgey hostel food. anyways...the most corrupt city in South America... i have not seen too much corruption in south america although i would have to agree that this place must have it´s fair share. i decided to get out and do a bit more travel and not let the hinderance of having no accessable funds get me down. As with all australians, canadians and USA-íans we need a visa to enter paraguay...this visa cost 40 dollars US [View Full Entry]

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The adventure to iguazu has been a journey in itself i jumped on a bus from BA and prepared myself for the 17 hour journey which by south american standards is nothing special... but a nightmare when you sit amongst 20 kids on there school excursion. but alas i made it and booked my trip to the argentine side of iguazu straight away. I met some great canadian guys who decided they were up for it as well and joined me on my transfer out there. The day started at 8 in the park and finished at 3.30 which was our [View Full Entry]

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Ok this week has been a rollercoaster ride of emotions and it isn’t quite sorted yet but things are looking better. Since my last entry in Punta Del Este I met up with Rafael and we headed off to the beautiful La Paloma I cant believe there is no entry for it’s location in the travelblog as it is by far the best location I visited in Uruguay. We got a bus from Punta to Rocha and then from Rocha to La Paloma where we were looking forward to setting out tent and checking out the town. So we walked into [View Full Entry]

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To start let me just say Punta del este is one crazy place. Ok since my last entry i spent 2 days in a nice beach town called pidiapolis which was good to chill out and i basically spent most of my time on the beach and the last couple of days have been here in punta. The hostel here (mananitalis) has been packed and is 15 minute drive out of town which was good and bad. you really have to take a bus every where unless you are off to the beach where you can just walk...anyways i met more [View Full Entry]

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Well, well well merry christmas to all those who didn´t get my message which is all of you cause my phone dosn´t work out here haha....it´s been a busy week in Montevideo which to be honest is in my opinion a bit of an under rated city. the week kicked off with a trip behind enemy lines to the Venue which staged the first ever world cup final but more importantly the birthplace of Australia´s 2006 world cup qualification. I met a brazilian guy equally interested in my desire to visit the stadium (rafael...sorry about the spelling) and headed out there [View Full Entry]

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So i have spent the last week in my spanish course i must say i didn´t learn heaps in a week but i learnt some basic grammer which i´m sure if i practise it will make a world of difference to my spoken spanish. All in all the spanish course was good fun and met some cool people as it was appraoching christmas time most of the residents that had been in the house for upto 6 months were leaving so there were a few farewell parties. I think it was wednesday night at the hard rock, Thursday at a greek [View Full Entry]

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Ok so it feels like ages since i have updated my blogs but i have finally got my act together. Buenos Aires is an awesome city i have been here for just under two weeks and have been living it up. I flew into Buenos Aires from Ushuaia with Moira and checked into my hotel. That night we met up with others from our tucan tour that where using buenos aires as there stop off before heading back home. I met everyone at the obolisco in the center of town... (eventually the town was a bit more disorientating than i expected...and [View Full Entry]

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if any of you guys want to know what the end of the world looks like this is it...wow impressive hey...yep i feel like this tour has achieved something. been cruzin back lately drinking it up and doing the usual. sorting my thing s out for the next leg of my tour...planning to learn a bit of spanish considering i pretty much have no idea what the hell people are saying around here. took a pic which i like........ it was taken at a post in ushuaia in reference to the maldives which was originally british then argentina took it by [View Full Entry]

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Ok sounds hard core but ot really the torres del paine translates to the towers of blue in the native indian south american language. anyways for those of you who don´t know much about it...it is a national park in chile which boasts one of the best hikes second to the machu pichu climb in south america. so anyways we climbed it ...no big deal here are the photos... i have posted one of our camp site which is particularly good. ahhhhhh feel the serenity. there is heaps of treking (hard core walking) in torres del paine although it comes at [View Full Entry]

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Alright I have fallen off the face of the planet i havn´t had mobile reception for like 1 and a half weeks and i havn´t found a decent internet cafe for a while so this post has been back dated some what so i can manage my photo distribution through my posts. Cafayate the jumping ground for the moreno glacier and probably my favorite place so far. we pulled up in our hostel on a monday night. so we decided just to head out to dinner and finish off with some local brews at the recommended don deiago´s (not sure on [View Full Entry]

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