http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Argentina , Cordoba en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:46:26 BST Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:46:26 BST Fredag d. 11 Juli Che GuevaraVldig flink guide srgede for at vi endelig fik smagt en lokal specialitetJesuitter mlle i Alta graciaBesgte 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 mrke man er kommet nordp. Fra vinter til sommer over en enkelt bustur.Vi fik at vide af guiden at man i de seneste 10 r er http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Cordoba/blog-303795.html Torsdag d. 10 Juli Vandretur i CordobaDer er en del lyshrede piger. Ved nrmere eftersyn viser det sig at de alle er sorte i hrbunden.Mange af museerne holder siesta kl. 14.30 og lukker ikke op igen s vi er for sent til mange ting.Flot kunst museum med mest nyere argentinske malere 19002000Lasse kber en matevarmer til 200 pesos. Vi bliver spurgt hvor mange rater vi nsker at betale. De leve http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Cordoba/blog-303794.html Onsdag d. 9 Juli Ankomst CordobaKedelig og sd morgenmad. Heldigvis ved vi at middagsmltidet er anderledes overddigt.Vgner op til musikvideoer af julio iglesias kloner som synger sange som indeholder coracon alt for mange gange.Ventede p at vrelset blev frdigt. Stedet virker en smule snusket men betjeningen er venlig. Der er 12.000 km til danmark.Ordnede de daglige greml p internettet http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Cordoba/blog-303793.html Tirsdag d. 8 Juli Bus mod CordobaVgnede tidligt op i chile og fik en rigtig god fruhstuck. Nok primrt fordi de er af tysk afstamning her.Lidt rgeligt at forlade Bariloche kunne godt have brugt en hel uge til at udforske omrdet. Det har rigtigt meget at byde p. Hvis det ikke havde vret for Argentinas drlige konomi s havde det vret et fantastisk sted at bo.Vi ser 5 argentinske balamaerD http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Cordoba/blog-303791.html Apres la nature et les chutes dIguazu on est retourne en ville...Cordoba est agreable. Les rues du centre sont tres jolies et pavees. Pas de voitures pour nous embeter. Et la encore beaucoup deglises et de chapelles. Le mieux a Crdoba cest de visiter les eglises et missions jesuites dans les montagnes. Malheureusement on na pas eu le temps. Une prochaine fois peutetre.After the heat and th http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Cordoba/blog-302905.html We arrived to Cordoba late Friday afternoon. I figured we would have no problem catching a bus from Mendoza to Cordoba however since most students are on vacation everything was booked so we had to catch the 6 AM bus. We arrived to Mendoza Thursday night around 9. We had two choices. Either go to a hostel for the night and pay 30 pesos per person OR put our luggage in storage and explore th http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Cordoba/blog-302578.html Having not slept very well on the bus from BA to Cordoba due to it not being the full sleeper we were supposed to get we were both very tired when we arrived. It had been two days since we had showered and we both felt grubby and a bit crabby. Jumping a taxi to our hostel and struggling through the very tiny doors that the colonial buildings have in south america we dragged our bags up the ste http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Cordoba/blog-295340.html So Crdoba is the city of colonial architecture universities and nightlife. I stayed in a hostel called Crdoba backpackers which turned out to be a really great place eating in tenedor libre places eat as much as you want and I did some shopping. What Ive learnt about Argentina is that the country is very modern and has a high standard of living compared to other South american countries. Al http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Cordoba/blog-292212.html So with heavy hearts but slightly lighter backpacks we headed to Retiro the enormous bus station in BA for our overnight bus. Usually I would be dreading such a journey but we had heard great things about Argentinian buses and were not to be disappointed. We were travelling on the top class of bus where the seats recline into full beds. There was a stewardess who served dinner ok but rather lik http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Cordoba/blog-292110.html Here we are in Cordoba so pretty with mountains all around. The ride here was little longer due to the manifestation taking over the country. All the farmers are in revolt and now the whole country is in revolt. I love seeing the people take a stand. Well Cordoba is cool a huge college town and pretty old buildings. Diego and I came to see the sights and I have a friend here from my last t http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Cordoba/blog-288702.html The highlight of our Cordoba stay was a day trip out to Condorito National Park. Just under two hours out of Coroba by bus this park was an un planned trip just to escape the city for a day and it was amazing We were almost 3000 meters above sea level so it was icy cold but luckily we had sun to take the edge of that a little. It was such an amazing landscape and as it is not one of the heav http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/blog-283812.html I am writing in the present again Last I looked at the temperature it was minus 1 degree Celsius so we are both starting to feel that it is time to head North. My fingertips and toes are feeling it most The cold is also I guess why I am writing in present tense rather than climbing and writing later. After four days in Cordoba three days longer than we had really intended we headed out for http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Cordoba/blog-281410.html What a lazy week Ive hadI arrived here in Cordoba on Monday and today is Saturday. I realised yesterday that guess what Ive only got another 6 weeks in South America and I really need to get a wiggle on if I want to do everything that Id love to do in Bolivia Peru and Colombia. Quite a scary thought really having so little time. But I still find myself in Cordoba on a sunny Saturday af http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/blog-272493.html Live vanuit Argentini zijn hier Sander en RemcoOm maar meteen met de deur in huis te vallen als je ooit in Argentini met de bus gaat reizen doe dat in een Super Cama bus. De vorige keer dat wij op onze blog schreven zaten we vast in Buenos Aires omdat er te veel rook en vuur was om onze reis naar het noorden te starten. Uiteindelijk hebben we een dag later toch deze nachtelijke tour gemaakt en http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Cordoba/blog-270972.html The Andes Mountains that are definitely deserving of an exclamation mark. We watched these impressive mountains through our window as the driver pressed ever harder on the accelarator straining the bus as it wound up hairpin bends our ears popping and passengers giggling nervously to one another some even closing the curtains to avoid looking down the sheer drop. A chattering group of Chile http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/blog-270674.html Well I guess we are not that used of arranging bus journeys yet We anticipated that the bus from Asuncion to Cordoba would take a few hours but after 15 hours on the bus we were glad to arrive. I even had to email the hostel to cancel one night of our stay as we did not arrive till 9.00 am the following morning.Needless to say the bus journeys can be interesting you get to see alot of places http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Cordoba/blog-265862.html There is something extremely unnatural about leaving somewhere at 5pm on a Wednesday flying for eleven and a half hours getting a dodgy taxi driven by a 90 year old man and somehow managing to arrive at your final destination a few hours earlier on that same Wednesday. As a result we were all a little jet lagged for our first few days in South America and our body clocks were not helped by t http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Cordoba/blog-264790.html Day 136 Wanderings in Cordoba Sorry but this entry starts with a moan.....whinge start Having left Hostal Obelisco this morning we headed to the airport early. This was not only to ensure that we caught our flight on time but was also meant to enable me to speak to an airline allied to British Airways to see if I could change my flight from Santiago to Caracas to an alternative route. What http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Cordoba/blog-259450.html Asuncionissa oli koko ajan kamalan kuuma mutta jaksoin kuitenkin tehda haluamani keskustakierroksen lauantaipaivana. Eipa siella oikeastaan mitaan kovin kiinnostavaa ollut. Valittomasti hulppean hallintorakennuksen takaa alkaneet hokkelislummit tosin herattivat ihmetysta pienen suomipojan paassa. Ostin joltain randomJackilta maissirinkuloita kun niita on siella sun taalla myyty mutta en aiemmin http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Cordoba/blog-257398.html M So its been a while since we have written... this may be a long oneAfter Uruguay we went to Iguazu to see the incredible waterfalls. Iguazu is where Brazil Argentina and Paraguay meet and so I thought it would be really interesting to try to see a bit of Paraguay no one ever seems to go to Paraguay it gets left out of the South America tour... so we thought we would give it a chance... http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Cordoba/blog-247591.html A 12hour bus journey took me from Mendoza to Cordoba which lies pretty much in the centre of Argentina. It was a long journey with just one 10minute stop along the way and only Argentinian country music for entertainment. There was some strange stuff indeed such as a song all about cows with a video showing milking cheesemaking etc. The farming theme continued outside the windows too as we p http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Cordoba/blog-246715.html hi how you guys i am still alive ... i spent thelast couple of weeks in Cordoba Mendoza and aroundthem started seeing a little of Arentina's beautifulnature and came back to BsAs this weekend. tomorrowit will be my 1 year out of the army and half a yearaway from home and to celebrate it i am flying toUshuaia the southernmost city in Argentina. I spenta week in the Cordoba area. I couc http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Cordoba/blog-241814.html Having travelled with work all year in the comfort of business class it was a while before I would accept the news Sheena broke to me in the aeroplane at JFK that there was no horizontal seat button....guttedA quick stop in Santiago Chile and a quick hop straight over the Andes to Cordoba Argentina to see old friends and my other family. The flight was maybe one of the best Ive taken ever http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/blog-230351.html We are now in Carlos Paz a small town near Cordoba which is like a little Las Vegas one casino lots of shows and a whole lot of atmosphere. We got to Cordoba this morning after which we left for Jesus Maria another small town near Cordoba and youll soon understand why its called that. Jesus Maria has a Jesuit mission which the Lonely Planet says that if youre only planning to visit on http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Villa-General-Belgrano/blog-229435.html Cordoba. Argentina. Eerily a little like Brissie... In a quasihallucinatory calorieinduced fever worthy of Bram Stoker and a decent piece of nightmarefed prose I pondered last evening this incisive and quite a bit sanctimonious Ill grant you question... Why do I hate backpackers so much A simple matter on the face of it returning pissed to the dorm at 4am and discovering that theyre http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/blog-229106.html A meat wave is moving steadily south across Argentina. My junior year in college I experimented for a month with a then unheard of all meat diet before old Atkins stole my idea. After eating only animal flesh for 3 weeks I promptly diagnosed myself with meat exhaustion and called the whole thing off. Upon first glance one might think that this sort of diet is unsustainable and take my firs http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/blog-228069.html Seeing the sights of Mendoza only took a couple of days so on monday we took a bus to Cordoba the second biggest city in Argentina with plans to go to Rosario after. I should mention that Im writing this on an extraordinarily crappy keyboard so if there are letters missing that is the reason. The buses in Argentina are awesome. I think I forgot to mention that on the one from BA to Mendoza http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/blog-227339.html The last week was spent travelling west towards the border of Argentina and Chile. We stayed in two places Cordoba and Mendoza. Cordoba was the site of possibly the dodgest hostel we stayed in. Damn you Baluch For all its pitfalls it had free bfast and the internet was free and fastest there.Cordoba is meant to be the cultural capital of Argentina I think. Its home to 7 universities and had http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/Alta-Gracia/blog-227278.html One day when the weather wasnt so conducive to flying Jamie and I took a trip to Cordoba a 2 hour bus ride from La Cumbre. Cordoba is considered to be the educational centre of Argentina with 7 univerisities in town. Its busy and vibrant and after almost 2 weeks in La Cumbre a little overwhelming Cars honking people crowding on the street...we felt like folks from the country taking o http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/blog-224235.html Weve spent the last two weeks in La Cumbre Jamie has been doing his paragliding course and while at first I was interested as soon as I saw the big drop and thought about jumping off all by myself I realised that maybe this was a special activity just for Jay and I would be much better suited for laying around the pool and taking nice walks in the countryside.And it turns out that La Cumbre http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Cordoba/La-Cumbre/blog-223462.html