http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/kleine chrissi/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from kleine chrissi en-us Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:45:35 BST Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:45:35 BST Moving on from Buenos Aires actually meant going back to lovely Uruguay to spend some last few days there with all the wonderful people I met here. Goodbyes are always sad which is why I am not going to elaborate only this much I did consider staying here for various reasons lovely people Candombe Grappamiel my spanish is better than my french Boris the cat Redes is great my housemat http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Belgium/Brussels-Capital-Region/blog-288969.html After happily surviving Iguazu my original plan was to head to on to the brasilian coast and spend a few days there before heading down to Uruguay again. But then having stayed in Montevideo for an entire month and not having seen Buenos Aires only a short 200km swim away across the Rio de la Plata seemed just not acceptable. So instead of going to Brasil I took a nightbus to Buenos Aires http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-286604.html From other travellers I've heard anything between Its the most beautiful thing I've ever seen and It's just a couple of waterfalls why do you want to go there. I found myself to be somewhere in between it's probably not the most beautiful thing I've ever seen although just now I can't think what the most beautiful thing I've seen is maybe I'm just hard to impress but it is definite http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Misiones/Iguazu-National-Park/blog-284896.html But all good things must end and so I had to leave lovely Samaipata for a much wilder adventureThe bus to Paraguay I took the bus from Santa Cruz Bolivia to Asuncin Paraguay. In my guidebook its advertised as a gruelling minimum 30h bus ride on one of the most bumpy roads of Latin America. At the bus terminal the companies advertised it as a 20h ride in a comfortable sleeper bus with t http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-284442.html Wheather was not really much better today but whatever I wanted to see cloud forest and spend some energy Luckily a hardy troupe of 2 british 1 american and 1 israeli as well as even more hardy Carmelo the guide wanted to be out and about in the cloud forest as well so off we went.And it was soo worth it As if to reward as for being the only tourists well we all prefer travellers don' http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Santa-Cruz-Department/Amboro-National-Park/blog-283469.html A pity really that I rushed through La Paz from bus stop arriving from Titicaca to bus terminal leaving for Santa Cruz La Paz is really a beauty when you get the first glance at it from above in the afternoon sun. Undescribable so I won't even try. And I didn't stay anyway...I took a sleeper bus to Santa Cruz which was sort of a waste since the roads are so bad that you can't sleep anyway http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Santa-Cruz-Department/Samaipata/blog-281542.html Lake TiticacaHaving a strong cold and deciding to go to Lake Titicaca at 3800m is not exactly the smartest idea of all but then I didnt want to stay in Arequipa forever. So I jumped on the bus to Puno on the peruvian Titicaca shore and from there straight on to Copacabana Bolivia. And got stuck there.Copacabana Copacabana is a quaint little village on the lakeshore and it is a major traveller http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Lake-Titicaca/blog-281453.html Caon de Colca Arequipa is not only Arequipa it is also really close to the Colca Caon the deepest canyon in the world or so they say Ive heard others say that the next caon is actually deeper. Cabanaconde is only an easy and short busride away from Arequipa bumpy road all the way in an old bus for 6.5 hours most of the time either in the altiplano at above 4500m or at the edge of the http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Arequipa/Colca-Canyon/blog-280178.html So once the summit was over I jumped on the first overnight bus to Arequipa in the south of Peru. Actually it wasn't the first bus it was a recommended agency one without a history of stopping on the road to pick up people who are then not really picked up but instead empty the luggage compartments of its content....I still have all my luggage.10 years ago I spent a night in Arequipa on http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Arequipa/Arequipa/blog-278518.html Finally the Enlazando Alternativas Peoples' Summit is over With about 15 or 20 Friends of the Earth people from Latin America and Europe we spent an absolutely crazy week in Lima between Tribunal selforganized activites plenaries and all the other sideactivities such as drinking Pisco Sour over a heated disussion on neoliberalism and Europe's historical debt Enlazando AlternativasParall http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lima/blog-278516.html FassadesTechnology acts against me Together with an awful worklife balance in my last Montvideo days technology has not permitted me to upload the wonderful photos I made of house fassaddes. I had this blogentry prepared since the 5th of May now of course it is completely outdated and I still can't upload the photos. First my firefox crashed each time I wanted to upload photos. Then my http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Uruguay/District-of-Montevideo/Montevideo/blog-272975.html An encouraging little Asterix story I spent the weekend in a little town or pueblo called Treinta y Tres well I can explain the name but as that is a long story I will add it at another time at the Fiesta de la Semilla criolla LocalRegional seed festival. It is an Asterix story because here as anywhere else in the world transnational seed companies are doing all they can to monopoli http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Uruguay/East/Treinta-y-Tres/blog-270981.html I've found a prejudice which has definitely turned out to be NOT true Let me tell you about the Linux challenge I've heard a lot of people say that in Latin America things turn out to be a bit slower than they are in our incredibly fast european Brussels stress society. Admittedly I think I did believe it myself. Well it turns out that although things here do seem to be more relaxed they are http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Uruguay/District-of-Montevideo/Montevideo/blog-269357.html On my 4th day in lovely Montevideo I finally feel like I have almost gotten over the jetlag. Which is a pity since it's actually quite nice to get up early in the morning.....but then in the evenings I feel like a party pooper. Yesterday we went to a fantastic free open air concert in a park but even before the clock struck midnight I headed home to the comforts of my bed while everybody http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Uruguay/District-of-Montevideo/Montevideo/blog-268083.html Almost on my way to the airport 2 more hours to go and frantically trying to get everything readyOnce I'm through passport control I will buy a really bad paperback book and just sit back.... after buying 13 kg of chocolate of course to give to my lovely hosts in Montevideo Uruguay when I arrive http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Belgium/Brussels-Capital-Region/Brussels/blog-266732.html