Blogs from South America - page 4847

On the other side of loving the ocean In marine biologist heaven Puerto Madryn is 18-20 hour busride. To some people this would seem like and endless journey...a waste of time. Yet, my endless carbon dioxide afternoons have prepared me for endless hours of staring out a pane of glass. I have been prepared by driving up and down the Florida coast like it was my hobby...(Ft. Lauderdale. Everglades. West Palm Beach. Homassasa Springs. Jacksonville. Ft. Lauderdale. Orlando. Lake Placid.etc.etc.repeat.repeat). After I left the peninsula I jetted across the state for California...that was only 50 + hours in four days...(Florida.Georgia.Alabama. Lousiana. Texas. Texas.Texas.Texas.Arizona.New Mexico.California). Then there were endless trips up and down California and to Black Rock City. (LA.Sacramento.LA.Sacramento.San Francisco. Sacramento. Sierras... read more

hey i added a blog yesterday, but i think there was a bug in the system, and the website didnt send an "alert" out to my lovely subscribers... So check out the previous blog from November 20, if you havent already. hope this works! Maggie... read more

I was scared at times in Buones Aires, I was especially scared in Rio. But never did I feel particularly threatenedin any of those places. Arriving in La. Paz, after collecting our bags, and grabbing three taxis to take us to our hostel- the policeman stuck his ugly Bolivian (I’m sorry, its true) head into our cab and said “be careful”. What!? NO!! Don’t say that, we’re already scared to death permanently mister!
 So with tentative everything, and hands glued to our packs, we managed to pick our first 
La. Paz winner of a taxi driver, who of course, knew nothing about his city- “where, what is, sorry senorita? A hostel.. no no no entiendo”. This pattern continued the entire time we were there, on each and every lone journey and I soon found ... read more

Up early to be picked up by Claudio and Juan from 'Nunatak' - one of many tour operators in Ushuaia - for a day of walking and canoeing in the nearby national park. An 8.15am pick-up for us and a 9am pick up for two other guests at the same hostel was not such a promising start. We also had an idea of how today was going to be pitched by the variety of the clientele, from large Americans dressed in jeans and white trainers to 3 giggly flirty Brazilian ladies who thought they were going to see the penguins not 3 hours walking (let along canoeing). They came anyway. The national park was stunning and we were lucky with the weather. The walk took us along a coastal path that enabled us to see ... read more

Second day in Bariloche with our VW Gol and we headed for the high ground. Unfortunately we didn´t have the gear for skiing but luckly for us the chair lift had only been opened that day and no skiing was taking place anyway. 2 chair lifts and 20 mins later we were at the top of the slope and well into the snow. Views of the mountains and lakes were amazing and nothing was quite more enjoyable than watching a bunch of OAP´s having a snowball fight. One 70 year old woman got one right in the face and it was´nt nice fluffy snow, she didn´t seem to mind though and got her own back by putting a handful down the culprits back. VERY AMUSING. Bought a load of souvenirs and posted them home (hopefully in ... read more