http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/kebei/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from kebei en-us Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:08:41 +0000 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:08:41 +0000 EnglishFlight Gol Santa Cruz Campo Grande. Departure time 0140 am Connection flight Campo Grande Sao Paolo at 0440 am... ok it was cheap but surely not the most stilish way to enter Brazil. Anyway at 0640 am two zombies carrying italian passports got off of the plane and set foot on the brazilian soil actually Campo Grande is already in Brazil but at 4 am we were not completely concio http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Paran-/Foz-do-Igua-u/blog-47791.html English After four months and a half we have finally got back home We arrived at Venice airport safe tanned and thin 5 kg Alvise 2 kg Chiara. It was really strange to be back at Venice airport and listening to people speaking italian rather than spanish. Many feelings and thoughts are occupying our minds. We think we had a fantastic trip and met really interesting people but actually we a http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Cuba/Oeste/La-Habana/blog-61170.html I write here two lines about the day of my PhD defense. A big thank to all the people who came to my party and that contributed to make this day very special to my paraninfs Elena Simona to all the friends that I met in Holland and also to all the ones who came from Italy. And for the people who didn't come... well maybe I will forgive you You can see here some photos of the defense dinn http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/South-Holland/Leiden/blog-33301.html EnglishHere we are. 53 years and 2 days after Che. After some millions of others which tried to emulate his trip it is our turn to start from Buenos Aires to discover Latin America. Actually here this city does not look as it is in any other continent but Europe. Buildings look european people behave as in Europe and the food... well it is great On top of this everything is so cheap. The pric http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-34735.html EnglishHere we are again Hello to everybody We thank you all for still following us with this blog. It is really nice to see that people are interested we hope it's not only for the mate competition going on . Thanks for all the comments they are always very welcome and they make us feel more in contact with you from this far continent After the last time we moved to Argentina yesss... we http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/El-Calafate/blog-38673.html EnglishWe have managed it. We have completed the W trek in Torres del Paine Chile. This is one of those things which usually appear in the list of things to do before I die beside becoming an opera aficionado and analysing the Ulysses of Joyce as Mariela read in the travel diary of an american tourist sitting next to her in the bus. We spent five days hiking around the towers walking more http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Magallanes/Torres-del-Paine/blog-37051.html English Here we are again. First of all we would like to thank all the people that are following our trip on this blog and have written a lot of 'nice' ehmmm... comments it's amazing how much a mate mug can do . For those who asked what a mate is when we have time we will explain it with an illustrated section. For more detailed replies see at the end of the blog. The competition for the http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Tierra-del-Fuego/Ushuaia/blog-35776.html English Finally after almost 4 months we have reached the final destination of our trip in South America Cuzco in Quechua the navel of the world and the Machu Picchu in Quechua the old mountain. Yes our return is getting closer... in less than a month we will fly back to Italy. Be prepared to several tough eating and drinking welcomeback celebrations in Venice first and then in Zurich. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/Cusco/blog-55398.html English La Paz Our visit in Brasil was really a relaxing break before going back to the less confortable country of Bolivia. We enjoyed a lot the beaches the atmosphere and the people in Brasil but we had to go on with our trip. Actually we were really looking forward to the tough life on the Andes at 4000 meters of altitude... we missed Bolivia. From Salvador Bahia we decided to catch the plan http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Puno/blog-52597.html EnglishTrancosoThere are places where once you set your foot on you feel like somebody has cast a spell on you. It has happened to us in Trancoso. It might have been the contrast with the hectic Rio it might be due to the particular moment and the particular way we were feeling while we were there it might be that if we come back we will not feel the same magic but somehow in that place eve http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Bahia/Salvador/blog-50940.html From the last time we have showed you the most amazing part of Bolivia the Salar de Uyuni lagunas all landscapes that we have visited with a jeep tour from Tupiza. Now we are still in Bolivia we have seen some cities Potosi Sucre with the market of Tarrabuco and arrived to Santa Cruz. This last one is not really a great place near the jungle and with a very humid climate but the reason t http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Chuquisaca-Department/Sucre/blog-45113.html EnglishWith ldquoonlyrdquo six hours of bus we could reach from So Paolo one of the best attraction we were dreaming of during our trip. However it took us two days to leave the comfortable Toninellirsquos house and the Parmigianohellip Rio is called the cidade meravilhosa by the Brazilians for some more than justified reasons. In this city nature and civilization combine together in a d http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Rio-de-Janeiro/Rio-de-Janeiro/blog-49241.html English We have noticed that the number of comments and visits to this blog is decreasing. Hence this time we have decided to amaze you with the best landscapes and probably the pictures of our trip. The southwest part of Bolivia is simply out of this world. Last time we wrote we were in Tupiza waiting for somebody to join us for the famous 4 days jeep tour to the Salar de Uyuni. We had to wait t http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/Uyuni/blog-44113.html EnglishWe are now in Bolivia We arrived here by crossing the border with Argentina from La Quiaca. Visiting La Quiaca the northest part of Argentina is one of the cool or maybe silly things that one could do together with visiting the southern most part of Argentina Ushuaia more than 5000 km far south. Argentinian buses do not dare to cross the border and have problems through the bad gra http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/Tupiza/blog-42833.html EnglishOur southAmerican trip is getting into its more difficult part we have left the easygoing and almostEuropean Argentina and crossed the border to Bolivia from where we are writing now. Hence this blog is meant to be a farewell message to the Argentineans and the Chileans and their wonderful countries. We still have to digest the overwhelming load of experiences we are taking with us af http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Salta/blog-42786.html English For the second time we crossed the border ArgentinaChile. This time the experience was much more positive we did not had the same sad feeling of touristic exploitation that we tasted in Torres del Paine. Coming from Argentina we had to switch our brain to the chilean accent with 'ja ja' again... Ok we were quite trained this time but we have to say that even if the language is the sam http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Valparaiso-Region/Valparaiso/blog-40777.html EnglishThe few of you who managed to read through our last blog thanks guys we are deeply moved should know how we got to Bariloche. These few probaly still hate us for the long descriptions specially the italian one.... We are sure that all the others only watched the pictures and felt asleep after the second sentence WAKE UP I SAW YOU take a seat drink a coffee and get ready this time http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Rio-Negro/San-Carlos-de-Bariloche/blog-39856.html Since we had expected many more comments from you we have decided to offer a brand new argentinian original mate mug see picture to the one that will post the major number of posts in our blog. Actually at some point the quality of the post may become important... and anyway it will be us that will decide who the winner is. I know this is strongly antidemocratic...but you know the world is not http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Bah-a-Blanca/blog-34959.html This entry involves only italian friends in Italy. Hence it is written in italian. We will try to keep the blog in both english and italian in the future.Capodanno a CelentinoOk non siamo ancora partiti. Incredibilmente siamo i primi in questo sito a scrivere qualcosa su Celentino. guarda te visto che ci sono posso fare un po' di pubblicita' al posto e in particolare alla casa di gigi. Andateci http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Trentino-Alto-Adige/Celentino/blog-34236.html Yes I also managed. Three weeks after Chiara I still do not believe it... but as the pictures below may witness it looks that I also passed my exam. Some say santa Lucia has played an important role in all this business.. well let's hope she will also be with us while in south America After exam we had a gorgeous party together with few other friends 100. It was really great Unfortunately http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Switzerland/North-East/Z-rich/blog-33308.html