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South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires January 2nd 2016

Happy New Year eveyone! We're off to Iguazu and not going back to BsAs anymore after, as today our 'true' travels will start. First stop as mentioned Iguazu, world's largest waterfalls, then to The Pantanal, world's largest wetlands and then on to Rio, world's largest... We'll have to see.... read more

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires December 24th 2015

And we are home safe and sound. But I have still got the last five days of our journey to tell you about. We start in El Calafate way down in the south of Argentina. From there we had booked two flights to get to Iguazu in the very north of the country. A two hour connection in Buenos Aires was cutting it fine and when the first flight took off late I had a bad feeling. The plane then sat on the tarmac in BA for half an hour before they opened the doors. And when they did, we stepped on to an over full bus to the terminal. When you are in a hurry you probably don’t read all of the signs that you are meant to, and that may be why it took ... read more
Devil's Throat
Devil's Throat 2
Iguazu

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires November 28th 2015

As you may have heard, general elections just took place in Argentina. Two rounds were needed to elect a new president - in the first round Scioli won with a small difference. Too small, due to which second elections were needed that were won by Macri who will now become the new leader of Argentina. Scioli came from the 'Kirchner team' (also 'Peron team') and would've continued the current policy for the most part. Macri is for change. We'll see. One thing is obvious, this country needs change. Extremely high inflation (people change USD in the street, as you get a better rate than in a bank), high unemployment, high poverty, poor infrastructure, etc. However, even given all this, we still love the place! Another interesting thing about the elections was that from 20:00 the evening ... read more
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South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires November 26th 2015

Argentina and the Iguazu Falls. Our ride from Asuncion in Paraguay to Peurto Iguazu in Argentina was a pleasant ride through amazing cropping country, but that was after an hour and a half of fighting the traffic out of Asuncion with the diesel fumes just about suffocating us, I was so glad to get out of there!! My eyes were watering and stinging,so when we stopped,I took my white rag and wiped my eyes,I was amazed at the black goob that I cleared from my eyes and we were breathing this crap!! Thank God we don't have to live here!! On the way,just before the border with Brazil (yes we had to go into Brazil to get into Argentina) Gerardo took us to the worlds biggest hydroelectric dam at Itaipu, where we took a free tour ... read more
Spillway
Spillway from the top of the dam
Moving South

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires November 24th 2015

Bonjour. Bien reposé, me voilà prêt à reprendre la route mais mon bus pour La Banda n'est qu'à 21h donc je libère mon lit puisque j'ai dormi en dortoir et je dépose mon sac à dos à la bagagerie. Je discute un moment avec le réceptionniste qui est Vénézuélien. Très sympa il me fera même goûter à son café, "le meilleur du monde" forcément... Il n'y a pas que les Français qui sont chauvins. Mais c'est vrai qu'il n'était pas mauvais son café. Je zappe le déjeuner et je pars me promener vers Puerto Madero, l'ancienne zone des docks, qui a été reabilité il y a quelques années en zone de cafés, restaurants et autres discothèques et qui s'anime surtout le soir. J'aime bien m'y promener même s'il y a de plus en plus de gratte-ciels, ... read more
Buenos Aires
Puerto Madero
Le Sarmiento

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires November 23rd 2015

* Nuit blanche sur le Rio de la Plata Holà. Voilà, c'est fini, j´ai quitté l'Uruguay cette nuit et visité le premier pays de ce périple. Bon, la découverte de l'Uruguay s'est limitée à sa capitale, Montevideo, en raison de quelques imprévus qui m'ont obligé à modifier mes plans. L'idée, c'était de visiter la côte jusqu'à la frontière brésilienne et éventuellement de faire un petit tour dans les terres et visiter une hacienda mais ça sera pour un prochain voyage... ou pas. Et puis dans le même temps, je n'ai pas vraiment de plan, si ce n'est d'arriver au Panama debut avril pour prendre l'avion du retour. On dit que préparer son voyage à l'avance, s'assurer qu'on n'aura pas de mauvaise surprise, c'est le moyen le plus sûr de ne pas avoir les bonnes. Donc pas ... read more
Rio de la Plata
Vue de Buenos Aires
Entrée dans le port

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires November 21st 2015

'No alarm going off for 6 months' was one of the perks of a sabbatical I thought, but the past week there hasn't been a day without the alarm going off, as both of us had Spanish classes to go to every morning (4 hours a day!). And they have paid off. So much so, that we decided to continue after we get back from Uruguay. But first we're going to see a polo match on Monday. The tickets were actually for Saturday, but apparently the field was still so wet from all the rain (we did have quite a lot of it) they had to move the first 4 matches of the 122th campeonato argentino abierto de polo, world's biggest polo tournament. Just imagine, both futbol and polo being postponed due to bad weather. I ... read more
Sunday street fair Costanera
Amazing pork sandwich
San Telmo Sunday market

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires November 16th 2015

Having arrived in BAs, we thought we would jump right back to Spring, but instead it rained so hard the first day we got here, they actually had to cancel Argentina vs Brazil (futbol/soccer that is)! In the meantime it has cleared up nicely and we've been spending many hours of walking, biking, sitting on terrases already. We also started doing some planning finally - next week we both have 20 hours of Spanish classes, we booked tickets to a Polo match and we're going to see some local futbal teams play against each other (neither one we've ever heard about, but Boca Juniors just won the title 2 weeks ago and they won't be playing anymore while we're here). The week after next, we'll be visiting Urugay on a short trip. Today we cashed in ... read more

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires October 27th 2015

Many people have asked us to keep them posted of our upcoming adventure - no work, all play for 6 months. Doing the thing we love most - travelling. Via this blog we're hoping to share the best, funniest, weirdest, most impressive, most beautiful, most inspiring moments we'll have in the next half year. Enjoy! We will too! :-) ... read more

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires October 27th 2015

My original plan was to try and get from Paraguay all the way down to Uruguay and Montevideo. Due to border and bus schedule logistics however, this would prove too problematic. It was much easier to get to Buenos Aires and with a load of newly made friends waiting for me there, I thought that I might as well head there first for my planned week in the Argentinian capital before going across to Uruguay after. To get down to Buenos Aires, I boarded my first overnight bus of the trip - fourteen hours from Encarnacion. It was pretty painless in the end. I managed to type out a blog entry before getting a pretty good sleep - the semi-camas are pretty much like La-Z-Boys so I had no trouble sleeping. With only four passengers in ... read more
Recoleta Cemetery
It Takes Two To Tango
Palacio del Congreso




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