http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America en-us Tue, 01 Dec 09 08:01:34 +0000 Tue, 01 Dec 09 08:01:34 +0000 After a short flight from Lima we were in Cusco. The flight in through the Andes was spectacular and I wondered why such a big city was in such a remote location. Our hotel Los Ninos II The children was beautiful very simple but clean and modern. The hotel was set up to fund a charity whose purpose is to feed some 600 underprivileged children in Cusco and provide them with hot showers and http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/blog-457325.html EcuadorHi thereMy name is Jay and have been travelling around the world for 11months or so. This next instalment is about Ecuador and hopefully this blog will be a little different than some of my others i will let you be the judge. So if we back track a bit and discuss the arrival into Quito the capital of Ecuador we were supposed to have a flight which i thought was at 8.40pm but turned out to http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/West/Canoa/blog-457292.html We really wanted to see Perito Moreno whilst in South America one of the few glaciars in the world that is still moving. Therefore when we turned up in the little town of El Calafate and took a local bus to the National Park we werent disappointed. Its incredible 60 metres tall with a 5 km frontage. One long river of ice which left Jonty speechless possibly a rarer occurance than the http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/El-Calafate/blog-457216.html dfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdf ffffffffffffd fff Dear Phil Simpson Katherine Gray http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-457168.html English VersionSo my 24th birthday was 2 days ago and I celebrated it here in Medellin my first birthday out of Nigeria or United States. I was a lot of fun because I'm blessed with wonderful people. My host mum gave me a beautiful earring Lexie y Juliana gave me a purple dress purple earrings and bought me a Chocolate cake Freddy gave a really beautiful wristwatch and Juliana's mum gave me http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Medellin/blog-457061.html Hi thereIt's my first opportunity to write a blog about the Butterfly tour. It's an adventure designed for entomologists or peolpe who likes this activity.The tour lasted 7 days 1 day in Iquitos city and 6 days in the field returning early to Iquitos the last day. It's included food in the field a hosting place and transportation IquitosFieldIquitos.This opportunity we had the visit of a http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-457011.html I have had a VERY crazy morning. I arrived in Nazca yesterday and booked a room at the Friends househostel and also booked a flight over the Nazca lines through them. This morning I waited at the hostel for my tour of the Nazca lines at 8.30am as arranged but no one turned up and there were no hostel staff around. Eventually the hostel guy turned up and was like oh yeah it isnt happening n http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Nazca/Nazca/blog-456978.html To get to Paracas I got a bus from Lima and arrived early evening. I stayed in the tiny little village overnight and spent the evening playing with kids who seemed to live at the hostel. I think that rather than paying for a room I should have been paid for babysitting as their parents dissapeared But it was really good actually as they taught me lots of Spanish including my numbers the shame o http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Paracas/blog-456975.html PUERTO IGUAZ ARGENTIINASSA 27.29.11.2009Argentiinan puolella yleisi alueita ei ole siistitty ojat kasvavat rikkaruohoa pensasaitoja ei ole tasoitettu talot ja bussit ovat rhjisi mutta tunnelma on paljon sydmellisempi ja rennompi. Nyt on taas hauskaa kun ei en tarvitse varoa askeleitaan. Voin kytt yleisi kulkuvlineit ja hoitaa asiani espanjan kielell. Olen saanut vapauteni taka http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Misiones/Puerto-Iguaz-/blog-456973.html We stocked up on bus snacks and headed for the border Its finally time to soak up some sun for a few days on the beaches of Peru. Luckily we heard of a special spot that gets sun over 300 days a year We blined to Mancora and arrived at a ripe ol3 am. After our first of many mototaxi rides a 125 Honda with attached enclosed passenger bench...and if youre lucky a rockinsound system and http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-456965.html voici les photos promises on est finalement toujours a Tarma car hier au lieu de partir on a fait une excursion dans la selva jungle on vous fera part plus tard de nos impressions.on vous embrasseelo et ronps toutes les photos ne sont pas la celle de la jungle non plus mais la connection est horrible.bisous http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-456955.html Only a month to go and I will be in the Amazon. I just booked a 6 day adventure out of Iquitos. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/blog-456954.html So after Huanchaco we take the night bus which lasted 9 hours to Mancora Its a very touristy town with pretty beach lots of kitesurfers and a few surfers. Lots of bars and Restaurants which kept us awake for near on 3 nights solid so moved to a more quiet part of town to get some sleep Not that much to do accept laze away the days on the beach. After 5 nights in Mancora we decided to head to Ec http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Banos/blog-456943.html Hey. No time but having a blast Falling in love with Peru. Check out a sample of some pics on my Facebook http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-456809.html So far Peru is a great country people are very nice and helpful. Many will try to make a few extra soles the Peruvian currency 3 soles 1 dollar by charging overprice but once you learn to navigate through that you're pretty much set to enjoy 3 course meals for 5 dollars or less.We arrived to Lima late the 25th so we have basically only had 2 whole days here which seems enough considering http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lima/Lima/Miraflores/blog-456778.html Machu Pichu was pretty spectacular we got up at 415 am to do the hike up only took Warren and I about 30 minutes guess being used to the grind pays off once in a while. That being said it was no problem for the Waynapichu ticket we were number 2021 or something like that. Except for the occasional rain squall it was a bit of a cool day at the top but what a fantastic spot it surely wo http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-456610.html Antarctica or Bust I guess calling it busted at Ushuaia for now. Or rather broke. Financially broke yes but I'd rather imagine this as though late last night a great wave washed down a dreamy river down from the mountains to the north down to the coast and broke there against the lapping waves at Lapataia. At the end of the road and of the world as I for the time being will know it. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Tierra-del-Fuego/Ushuaia/blog-456606.html Man hat ja vielleicht schon mal von den deutschen bdquoKolonienldquo im Sden Brasiliens gehrt . Weit weg ist das jedoch Blumenau z.Bsp ist solch eine Stadt wo man noch deutsche Kultur Sprache und Traditionen findet dort worsquos sogar mal kalt wird Hier im Nordosten bei bestndigen 28 und Sonne Forr regionale Musikdazu spter mehr Eselskarren zwischen Autos auf unbefestigten Str http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Fortaleza/blog-456585.html Buses buses and more buses. Also some trolleys thrown in for good measure. Not stopping heading straight to Otavalo to escape the big city. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/North/Quito/blog-456576.html Puyo. Hot humid and the one nice resturant.... closed as we arrived. Your mildewy hostel has only one thing of interest a 24 hour porn channel. What would our parents say We are leaving straight away in the morning. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Centre/Puyo/blog-456574.html