Blogs from South America - page 5248

Hey first off thanks for all the comments to the blog. I finally figured out that I need to go in and yay or nay them before they go on the web, so if your wondering why your comments were not there until now you know who to blame. Maybe in the future I might even reply! We have had a busy few days since leaving Nasca. The kids were quite excited when they found we had the front four seats above the driver for a birds eye view of all the street action, near misses etc. I wondered about head on collision out comes. We have really enjoyed Arequipa starting with our hotel which is great, the weather, people, food here and the fun stuff to do. Our first day off the night bus was ... read more

22/04/06 - 25/04/06 The wine capital of Argentina....and rightly so!!! wine is cheap and great!!! i´ve become friends with a grape called Malbec!!! i love anything Malbec...why we dont get it imported to asutralia surprises me!!! i arrive here at 2am in the morning and get into my hostel only to randomly bump into a guy called Feargal that i had now randomly bumped into for the 6th time during my travels!!! small world!!! so i unpack, have a shower and go out clubbin with him and 6 others (4 argentinians,1 spanish and 1 french!!) in a club called Apeteco...this lack of sleep thing is really gonna catch up on me at some point!!! Meet a crazy group of random travellers, we hire a car and go wine taste testing...wine and driving....hmmm...not a great idea. but ... read more

Viele Gruesse mal wieder aus Chile, dieses Mal weiter aus der Mitte des Landes, aus Pucon am Vulkan Villarica. Also am 20.4. sind wir dann nach Puerto Montt geflogen, was zum Lake District (oder auch Seenregion) Chiles gehoert. Dort haben wir vergeblich nach einer Touri-Info gesucht, wo wir uns verstaendlich machen konnten. Naja, zumindest haben wir aber ueber das Internet ein Auto reserviert. :-) In Puerto Montt war touristisch nicht viel los und das Wetter war grau, windig, und es hat geregnet. Die Seenregion hier scheint auch mehr die Urlaubsregion der Chilenen zu sein und da sowieso schon sehr Nachsaison zu sein scheint, waren wir wohl manchmal die einzigen Auslaender. ;) In der Nachsaison zu reisen hat natuerlich auch den grossen Nachteil, dass man nichts vorreservieren muss und trotzdem in den guten Unterkuenften noch Platz findet. ... read more

The Inca Trail is a 43km 4 day hike throught the Andes starting at Km82 and finishing at Machu Picchu the most famous and beautiful Inca ruins in the world. There was 15 in our group, almost all over 25, and we would spend the 4 days negotiating the trail with expert knowledge supplied by our amazing and charming guide Omar, who may be the best Peruvian ever. I knew before signing up it was going to be hard with the second day featuring a 1200m ascent called Dead Womens pass and the third day involving 3600 steps (very loosely applied term, its a very steep rocky trail) down the mountain nick named Gringo Killer due to the amount of serious injuries suffered by tourist. All this at an altitiude which peaked at 4300m and temperatures ... read more

Here with my friends having a great time in this beautiful city, with too much european feeling and culture. To 350 kms to the south of Buenos Aires City. Beaches, discos, great nights, safe/clean place, nice and opened mind people, incredible....!!! I think it´s a better place for visiting than the northwest or northeast of Argentina. The south and the southernmost of this country can wonder you as real. ... read more