Lake Titicaca Day Trip to the Highest Lake in South America and the 2nd Bigggest Lake Titicaca is the world's highest lake navigable to large vessels, lying at 12,500 feet (3,810 m) above sea level in the Andes Mountains of South America, astride the border between Peru to the west and Bolivia to the east. Titicaca is the second largest lake of South America (after Maracaibo). It covers some 3,200 square miles (8,300 square km) and extends in a northwest-to-southeast direction for a distance of 120 miles (190 km). It is 50 miles (80 km) across at its widest point. [View Full Entry]

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Machu Picchu Machu Picchu "Lost City of the Incas" OK Everyone so im here at Machu Picchu, but before i go into it all heres some facts that i copied straight from "es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machu_Picchu" Machu Picchu is a well-preserved pre-Columbian Inca ruin located on a high mountain ridge. Elevation measurements reports the elevation as 2,350 m (7,710 ft). Machu Picchu is located above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, about 70 km (44 mi) northwest of Cusco. Forgotten for centuries by the outside world, although not by locals, it was brought back to international atten [View Full Entry]

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4 Day Trek Hi Everyone, So its the last week and i have just returned from Macchu Pichu, but before you can read and see the pictures from there you have to see how i got there first. 4 Day Trek Basically i set out to walk the Urubamba Mountains for 27 Kilometers over 4 days, this consisted of walking over the highest passable mountain peak of 4700 meters high. The days are hot and the nights cold but i was looking forward to the challenge of seeing if i could actually do what i had talked about doing since i [View Full Entry]

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Second week and the last before Walking 5 days to Machu Picchu Hi Again everyone. The second week has gone so quick, Mainly because we have been active. This week i have gone horse riding, River Rafting and walked alot. Also i had my first really late night sonce arriving in Peru (4am People). So lets start. Horse Riding We decided to rent horses and ride the mountains around Cusco, and what a great idea it was, the mountains are gorgeous and i couldnt believe how much there was to see. We left cusco to go to the horse farm at [View Full Entry]

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Finally here i am in Peru, Its a massive change of pace from BS AS and one that i am enjoying. I have been here one week now and have already done so many things, Despite my taxi drivers best efforts on arrving in Cusco to drive me through the worst areas i am loving the city. So whats happening. Well Cusco is 3300 meters above sea level so as you can imagine its very high, that makes it so hard to breath here but your body adjusts eventually. It is unbeleivably hot here in the day and so cold here [View Full Entry]

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IGUAZU FALLS AND THE RIVER PARANA So here we go, finally after 7 weeks i managed to get to Iguazu Falls with 6 others from the school (the usual suspects so i need not introduce). Iguazu Falls is a totally amazing falls that is situated between Brasil and Argentina so you have to cross the border a hell of a lot. It is said alot that you get closer to the falls on the Agrentinin side but the brasil side has a better view. its probably a brazilian that said this but it is true, Also the river parana flows [View Full Entry]

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The Last minute BS AS attractions i did before Iguazu OK so it was getting dangerously close to me leaving BS AS and we were going to brasil for 4 days next week, so we had a last minute dash to do things that we couldnt be bothered to do earlier in the 2 months that i was here for. So here they are LA BOCA In an area not to far from where we live is LA BOCA. Famous for being the home of Boca Juniors Football club and also where Maradonna lived. We visited the Area of Caminito. This [View Full Entry]

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Hola Amigos So here it is (a little late i admit) week 5 and 6 So Everyone was expecting my tails from Chile, but a few things have happened and to cut a very long story short here it is. Went to Chile friday 2nd i think and returned to BS AS on sunday 4th. so that was my time in chile, still i am very happy to be back in BS AS. And seeing everyone again. So whats happening. Well about 200 brazilians are now in the school which is very interesting, i have graduated to Nivel tres (Level three) [View Full Entry]

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PERITO MORENO I have just finished my excursion to Perito Moreno. Patagonia is a lovely place and the province of Santa Cruz that we are in apparently only has 200,000 residents and it is three quarters the size of spain and portugal which has 65 million residents so it feels like you are the only person here. On the first day we went hiking through the wilderness and around what is said to be the third biggest lake in the America,s. Amazingly we were supprised by a group of 20ish Pink flamencos who were sitting in some shallow water. Then the [View Full Entry]

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Hello Again, just ot let you know that the good news is that i now have pictures. Firstly below is Plaza Mayo (pronouced in Argentina "Platha Ma-show"). It is Mayo by the way although you may see me call it Mayor in some places The big white obelisk is the piramide de mayo. a small obelisk built to mark the first aniversary of BA´s independence from spain. On thursdays at 3;30pm the madres de la plaza march around the square in their unrelenting campaign for a full account of dirty war attrocities. (See the Dirty War in Argentine history) Here also [View Full Entry]

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