Our internet has been down a lot this past week, so I'm pretty behind on this keeping people updated thing.... For the past week, my group of friends had heard again and again about La Bomba, a drum performance that happens at one of the cultural centers on Monday nights. With no real idea of what we were getting into, we grabbed a taxi on Monday night and headed over to check it out. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it certainly wasn't the crazy hippy drumfest that we saw. I'm sure you can get a feel for what [View Full Entry]

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Arrived in Bariloche a few days ago. Can´t remember when. The days all seem to be fusing into one another! It´s a lake side town in the Argentinian Andes. It´s very European in style. To be honest if you covered your ears so you couldn´t hear the Spanish you could be in a Swiss Alpine resort, but it is so beautiful. Right now out of my hostel window I can see towering snow capped peaks hovering above the lake that is deadly peacful at the moment. We have been skiing in the resort a few hundred meters higher in a place [View Full Entry]

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Hola, J´ai passe 3 jours a puerto Iguazu et c´etait bien agreable. Environ 28 c, on va pas se plaindre. Mardi j´ai ete voir les cascades du cote Argentin. Pas mal de nuages, mais bon, ca reste magnifique. C´est tellement grand, vraiment incroyable. On se sent tout petit a cote des cascades. Mercredi, grand soleil, cascades mais du cote brezilien. Le cote brezilien permet d´avoir une vue sur l´ensemble des cascades. Vraiment super. En ce moment suis a Puerto Madryn. (il fait froid). Demain petite balade a velo pour aller voir les phoques. Et ensuite destination puerto piramides pour aller voir [View Full Entry]

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Things I like: --The weather, I can feel the sun! --The people: very nice, very friendly. The cab driver and I had a conversation (yay for speaking spanish) --The food: much cheaper than in Buenos Aires --The tree lined streets. --the big sidewalks so that you don´t get bumped into anyone while you are walking. --my hostel, it´s so quaint and nice. Things I don´t like¨ --The weather, it´s freezing, and I think I'm going to die from cold before I make it back to California. --SIESTA: I'm trying to buy clothes... so I can go to the mountains tomorrow... but [View Full Entry]

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11/7/2008 We decided after class, the girls I’m staying with to take a bus all the way to Mendoza! Yeah, for those of you who aren’t quite sure where in the world Carmen Sandiego like dadada Mendoza, is near the border of Chile-Argentina! So yeah, is was pretty hectic….It took such a long time to get there, the food they served on the bus was either ham and cheese or ham and cheese! 12/7/2008 When we finally got there, it was already like close to 11am, due to the fact that the bus was a bit late (think Mexican Mexican time).. [View Full Entry]

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Having felt somewhat disconnected from the "gringo trail" recently, it was a shock to find myself surrounded by backpackers on the bus to Salta. The amount of crisp-eating was astounding, and I doubt even the most indigenous of villages would have sported such a collection of chullos. I noticed that the girl in front of me was learning some Spanish so, nosy by nature, I peered at the page she was currently reading. My eyes alit on a sentence, presumably intended for her boyfriend, that read "Yo quiero un festival de cock pronto" and I nearly laughed out loud - surely [View Full Entry]

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Fredag d. 11 Juli: Che Guevara Vældig flink guide sørgede for at vi endelig fik smagt en lokal specialitet Jesuitter mølle i Alta gracia Besøgte et af che guevaras barndomshjem i Estancia. Guf for mut og fat. Argentinerne er meget stolta af ham. Meget varmt 23.8 grader. Man kan mærke man er kommet nordpå. Fra vinter til sommer over en enkelt bustur. Vi fik at vide af guiden at man i de seneste 10 år er begyndt at producere meget soja, da den billige peso har gjort det rentabelt at dyrke den billige jord. Før var der bare prærie. Fik en [View Full Entry]

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Hello again everyone. We are still very much enjoying Mendoza. The house where we are staying is in the central part of the city. I'm not sure how old it is, but it has definitely seen some living within it's walls. The style of architecture is beautiful, though it wasn't designed for cold temperatures. It is only a short walk from our house to reach Parque San Martin, a beautiful place to walk or to sit by the lake. There are also fountains and statues. We have had plenty of opportunity to enjoy it with the weather staying in the 60's [View Full Entry]

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A very quick round up of our trip from Bolivia to Argentina and into Brazil. After the cold of Boliviãs salf flats we were looking forward to leaving the high altitudes of the Andes behind us and heading towards some sun. The plan was to go from the south of Bolivia into Argentina but due to bad roads, bus strikes and everyone else we met going via Chile we decided to change plans and get an additional stamp in our passports. We stayed in a small town called San Pedro and slept in a v cosy room with some people we [View Full Entry]

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Hello, I am thinking to go to El Calafate in the end of October to visit the glacier. How is the bus transportation in this area during this time of the year and do you think it will be worth it to go to Torres del Paine? After that I will travel to Bariloche and I would like to know how to get there by bus. I saw a bus tour that travels the route 40 but it looks it doesn't operate at this time of the year, any other suggestion? Thanks a million [View Full Entry]

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