It all started in El Calafate, a great group of keen as mustard trekkers gathered in numbers, through drinking and glacier missions we talked about a mission to Torres del Paine National Park as one big group. The plan was a four day hike. Day one walk would consist of 17 kms into the park to the refugio. Day Two; a 22 km round trip to glacier gray and Day Three; another 20 kms up the Valle Frances. Day Four; a race out to catch the buss at 2pm. In total; 75 kms in four days into a place that is [View Full Entry]

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We didn't end up getting to Colonia last weekend because the cheap boat seats were sold out. We bought tickets for this weekend on the 8:45am boat. We'll see how getting to a boat port in an unfamiliar part of town at 7:45 (our check-in time) works out. It should be an adventure. The weekend was relaxing. We spent Saturday at La Boca, the brightly colored and very touristy part of town. We decided to take the subte (subway) which, as it turns out, lets you off much farther from La Boca than it looks on the map. After spending a [View Full Entry]

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Hello Amigos, I am not sure who if anyone is reading this blog so there have been no updates lately !! I MAY get round to it one of these days.... In the meantime, for photos, please follow these Links: Peru Started in the north of Peru in Mancora & Trujillo Onto the capital Lima Followed by a month in Cusco with lots of photos Here we have Machu Picchu Here photos of Cusco & Pisac More in Cusco The Corpus Christi Festival More of Cusco & Saqsaywaman Sites around Cusco Ollantaytambo Corpus Cristi Salida en el OCtavo in Cusco Another [View Full Entry]

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Having had one massive fuck about finding a hostel (the one we were booked in fucked us over...) we have now been enjoying the delights of buenos aires. To summarise so far it has gone like this: 12PM - I wake up, and go for a wander 4PM - Sanjay wakes up, wonders where I am 7PM - I return, meet up with sanjay and we eat 11PM - go out, get taxis all over the city and drink / feel bemused at the fact no where gets busy until about 2AM Inbetween this there has been much hanging about with [View Full Entry]

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Tirsdag d. 15 Juli: Fra Salta til Iguazu Afgang med bus kl 11.30. Vi har valgt en bus med Cama (det vil sige mere plads, da turen er på omkring 26 timer!!!! Det vil sige, at Nikolaj desværre ikke fik carma før den allersidste del af turen, da der ikke var flere pladser. [View Full Entry]

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Back to where I left off...last Thursday the school held a cooking class to learn how to make alfajores and some kind of pie, I forgot what it´s called. But I kept the recipes and hope to make them when I get back to the states! I think that´s the only kind of Argentine cuisine I´ll be able to make myself. No huge steaks or entrail stew for me. I´m kidding, it´s not really entrail stew, but stew with even one bit of cow guts is enough for me to consider it entrail stew. I´m not trying to insult the stew [View Full Entry]

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We were both looking forward to the bus journey back to Santiago from Mandoza. The crossing of this part of the Andes is both long and unpredictable. The road can be closed at short notice so we left a couple of days grace in case anything went wrong. Our bus left on time and the day was very clear which was great as we really wanted a good view as our crossing from Osorno to Bariloche had been dense fog so we saw little of the mountains on that journey. As we started winding through the hills and climbing it very [View Full Entry]

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Six months on and we're back. Before we arrived we were thinking, 6 days here, what will we do? We've already seen all the sights... then when we arrived we remembered how great and easy it is to just while away days in Buenos Aires doing very little apart from wandering it's lovely streets, stopping in for the occasional 'cafe con leche' or a bite to eat and lazing in the parks. Part of our reticence was that we were expecting it to be cold but BsAs is (luckily for us, not so great for the planet as a whole) having [View Full Entry]

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Hi all, I'm sure you all know by now that I have officially decided to stay until December. I absolutely love the city. There's so much to see and experience, there's no way it could all be done in one month's time. I really hope those of you that want to can come visit. I can't really do the city justice with my photos and stories, but I definitely try. Let's see... Last weekend was pretty fun. Friday night, Laura, Andrea, and I met up for a night on the town. First we had a fabulous dinner, as usual. I had [View Full Entry]

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All right, after a somewhat good night's rest talking to some Brazilians, I headed out to the train station to buy my ticket to Salta. After going through that pain (I should have shopped around, but I trusted Andesmar...) I bought a ticket to head to the Hot Springs in Cacheuta. The bus ride was an hour, and there weren't that many people on it. It was beautiful driving through the Andes. Cacheuta is a very little pueblo in the Andes. The biggest attraction, of course, is the thermal hot springs. The pictures are beautiful, but when I got there, not [View Full Entry]

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