Blogs from Puerto Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina, South America - page 5

Well, today's title refers to all that I have done here so far. At home I am a quiet, stay at home kind of person. I would never dream of zip lining, rappelling, taking a helicopter ride or whatnot, but here all that has changed. If it sounds fun, I am on it like (insert your own metaphor here, this is a family blog.) In other words, the active Jeannie is on the loose here. My driver picked me up at 8 again this morning. We went through immigrations to go to the Bazil side of the Falls. I knew that they were not going to be as extensive as the Argentine side, but I knew I would find some good views and things to do. We were there a half hour before the Park opened, ... read more

Day 111 Monday 30th January Our last morning in the fabulous Posadas Urbana Hotel, the best hotel on this trip so far and we really didn’t want to be leaving, but we had a bus ticket in our pocket and needed to be moving on. After breakfast we packed our backpacks once more and went down to the foyer, checked out and said our farewells to the staff. We left a couple of our books with the guy at reception, that we had already read and didn’t want to keep hauling around with us. He seemed thrilled to be getting the books for gratis, especially “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”. Picked up a taxi out the front of the hotel for the long trip to the bus station and we were a bit ... read more

Aanschouw het vervolg.. De busrit naar de jungle (Rurrenabaque) was op zijn minst memorabel. We hebben vele afgronden gezien en vele brainbreakers tegemoet gekomen om uit te zoeken hoe alle voertuigen dezelfde smalle, gladde weg konden afleggen. Vooral 's nachts.. Laten we het bij 'memorabel' houden ;) Op de heenweg hebben we er 22u over gedaan met de bus en op de terugweg 35min met de (minimini)vlieger.. De eerste dag hebben we een rondvaart gemaakt op de rivier om dieren te spotten. We hebben schildpadden, ara's, verschillende soorten apen, krokodillen, roze dolfijnen en vele vele vogels gezien! 's Nachts gingen we opnieuw de rivier op om op zoek te gaan naar aligators en krokodillen. We hebben er vele gezien en ik heb zelfs een baby-versie vastgehouden!! De tweede dag zijn we op zoek gegaan naar anaconda's. ... read more

Wow wow wow!!! I feel so lucky, I have seen so many amazing things on this trip and today have just come back from the Iguazu Falls. But first to recap since I spoke to you last, I´ve just uploaded the whale and glacier pictures so I´m hopefully going to get up to date whilst I´ve got access to a fairly decent computer. So I headed to Bariloche and that is one of the most beautiful places I have been to, I think I could have found my place...... It´s in the Lake District of Argentina, huge lakes surrounded by mountains and the town turns into a ski resort in the winter. There has been a huge volcano errupting somewhere in Chile since I´ve been travelling and the ash has been affecting flights and visibility for ... read more

This past weekend I went to the province of Misiones in the northeast of Argentina with my program CEA. The Bus picked us up from the Global Campus in Retiro (which was really nice because it meant we didn't have to walk through the madness of the bus terminal) for a 13 hour bus ride. We arrived in the morning and transferred to a bus where we went to a traditional estancia (ranch). It was really nice to hang out by the pool and swim. Plus we also had an asada (bbq) with traditional argentine food and some of the best desserts i've had here (i ate so much this weekend). after lunch we headed out to see the gauchos (argentine cowboys) at work. It was pretty cool but once they started artificially inseminating cattle i ... read more