Blogs from South America - page 5196

23 Mayo - Lago Titicaca, Isla Amantani On the Boat now, leaving La Isla Amantani and headed to Isla Taquile. I am sad to go, but excited to continue my journey. I think I should take this time to elaborate a little on my travel companions. I am traveling with two girls from New Zealand: Nikki and Kate. They are wonderful, great travel companions, high spirited, laid-back, and willing to do just about anything. They are so full of life and energy, and so accepting of me. I enjoy every minute with them. We are comfortable together and have become great friends. Nikki is a writer and an aspiring sand beach volleyball player. She is quick-witted, funny, and always has a smile on her face. She’s easy to get to laugh and calls herself “Photography Barbie.” ... read more

Last day of our trip! And somehow, in our almost twelve-day stay in Argentina, we had failed to explore one of the most colorful and unique barrios in Buenos Aires: La Boca. With only a few hours to spare, we decided to do something about our oversight. Since we still had a couple of leftover subte tickets that we wanted to use up, but no subte line would get us all the way to La Boca, we broke our itinerary in two: we took the subte system from Plaza San Martin to the end of the C-Line, Constitución Station. Once there, we exited the station and located a taxi stand where we started the second half of our itinerary. The city areas around Constitución Station seemed to be as friendly and lively as the rest of ... read more

Three cheers for Adventure Life!!! Not only did they deliver everything they promised but they gave us a lot more. This trip highlighted Macchu Pichu and the Galapagos, both to be seen at least once in your lifetime. One of our friends had regaled us with stories of her Galapagos cruise boat sinking out from under her in a matter of minutes. Not being impressed with maintenance in South America I checked out the boat we were booked on. It was over 40 years old. “No way.” I told Adventure Life. We had paid for a tourist class boat. A few days later they told us that, if we could leave a few weeks early, they could put us on a much newer First Class boat for the same price. “Sure.” we emailed back. Everything Adventure ... read more

Day 1- After a long pause waiting in our jeep for our guide to join us, we finally head off on our 4 day tour through what is said to be one of the most beautiful place sin the world. It turns out that our delay was due to the company briefing or guide on what we´re about see. they had been photocopyin all the papers detailing all the sites that we are gong to, so that he would be able to read them out to us when we hit our destinations! it turns out that it was his first tour to the Salt flats, and it would be as much a holiday for him as it would be for us!! His name was Arsel- similarly pronounced to Ass hole! and our driver´s name was Adelio..but ... read more

Puno town itself is nothing much special besides having many places to dine and to book tours from and the facilities to change money. It does have a beautiful asset though, that being the base to settle and leave your bags in storage for the night while heading out to the islands on Lake Titicaca. I arrived by bus from Cusco late afternoon on the 19th May and booked into a tour the following day for a 2 day, 1 night venture to the closest 3 islands to Puno. They are Isla Uros, Isla Amantani and Isla Taquile.. (not to be confused with Taquila! so the guide kept reminding us). This is the package tour that pretty much every operator can book for varying prices… 40-45 soles was the going rate.. don’t pay much more than ... read more