http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Argentina , Santa Fe en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:46:54 BST Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:46:54 BST Mandag den 21 juli RosarioAnkommer kl 8. Alle har sovet godt. Fr kaffe p stationen. Fr bestilt alt for mange tostadoer. Vi fr de overskydende pakket ind af den lille servitrice der forsger at foklare hvorfor det var blevet s dyrt 70 pesos.Taxa chauffrerne var meget sure og brokke sig over bde bagagens mngde og nogle af pengene som de pstod var falske. Til gengld var hotellet fart. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-303807.html We decided to stop in Rosario as the Lonely Planet described it as a miniature Buenos Aires it has lots of beautiful architecture and good nightlife to boot. Its also the birth place of Che Guevara so has its fair share of history too.We got there in the morning after another night spent on a bus this time however we had opted to pay the extra couple of pounds for cama seats which means bed http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-296766.html NeilAfter experiencing the stunning beauty of the Iguazu falls in northern Argentina our journey has taken us south towards Buenos Aires stopping via the cities of Santa Fe and Rosario. Before we headed south however we couldnt resist a quick trip over the border into Brazil our objective being to see the Brazillian side of the Iguazu falls or if the sun stayed in bed we had the backup of vis http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Santa-Fe/blog-285539.html For the first 4 hours until the nearest major town on the bus from Puerto Iguazu to Santa Fe we were the only passengers which we thought was fab. Just us upstairs with the front seats and the two drivers chatting downstairs. They still put on the obligatory action film just for us but after we asked if the onboard drinks machine did coffee we were promptly handed two cups of thick tar coffee wh http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-280435.html Regarding the fancypants buses of South America we booked into a cama from Cordoba to Rosario as we have been assured that they are vastly superior to the semicama which in turn is vastly superior to any bus Id ever been on before Chile and Argentina. But I guess I'm a classy bird with a taste for comfort and so for this trip we booked cama.Unfortunately despite our seats ability to recline http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-274313.html Well....I havent written in a while because Ive been super busy and things have just been rushing by. Ill try to remember all that happened but its going to be hard. This last weekend was a fun one even though it was pretty mellow. On thurday night I met up with Ian from one of the previous programs and we went to a Metal Show which was kinda funny. It was a bunch of Argentines who were all http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-264742.html Its hard to remember where I left off due to the difference in time that I post things up and when I actually write them. Ill try to start back up with where I left off. On saturday night I was told by my host mom that it was important for me to go out and dance since it was saturday. Apparently everyone elses parents here told them the same thing so a group of 5 of us decided we were going http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-262024.html Believe it or not but things are getting better here. Its getting way easier to understand the accents that people are using and it doesnt just sound like complete jibberish anymore. Conversations are coming along well with my host mom who Im sorry to say still doesnt speak any english. She will tell me something and I will sort of understand and get the general idea but then she keeps telling http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-261668.html When we went out I felt a little better and we pointed at things and tried to talk and made it a little farther in understanding each other.....she says it will be easier to understand and speak to her in one weeks time so im gonna trust her on that one. She took me to a shop down the street that sold phone card things for cell phones and she gave me an extra cell phone she had and I put 20 pesos http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-260388.html I really honestly have no idea where to start when writing this. Coming to Argentina and Rosario has been the most whirlwind experience of my life. For the past day or so I have been going through ups and downs and ups and downs of being super happy to be here and then being like...what the hell have I gotten myself into... I guess I have to start from the beginning. Since I last wrote I got on http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-260387.html Well....This morning proved to be an interesting one. The usual get up early head to the airport and deal with their shit for the next hour. Apparently according to the Airline attendant I need proof that Im staying in Argentina for less than 90 days or I need to change my ticket so that I will be gone exactly 90 days. Of course before she offers me this option she tries to get me to buy a p http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-259295.html Eng ver belowOd 2 dni jestem w Rosario. Postanowilam sie przeniesc z hostelu do namiotu. Roznica w cenie jest 34 krotna wiec warto. Poza tym kamping jest pieknie polozony poza miastem nad rzeka Parana spokoj cisza tylko lazienki jak z Transpottingu.Rosario jest 3 miastem pod wzgledem liczby mieszkancow w Argentynie po Buenos i Cordobie. Urodzil sie tu jeden z najbardziej znanych Argentynczy http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-249642.html Just a few photos. Sarahs photos coming soon. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-248021.html Liebe LeuteEndlich kommt hier also der wohl laengstens ueberfaellige erste Eintrag in unseren TravelBlog. Mittlerweile sind wir schon in Uruguay aber zuerst mal alles der Reihe nach.Nach langem Flug Frankfurt Buenos Aires ist anscheinend der laengste Flug den Lufthansa anbietet was vom Piloten bei jeder passenden und unpassenden Gelegenheit wiederholt wurde die Zeit aber auch nicht schnell http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/blog-235935.html In total we spent about 5 days in Buenos Aires not enough time but we got to see a few of the places around the city. We went to Recoleta and visited the massive graveyard there. It is were Eva Peron and bunch of other ridiculously rich people are buried. The graves are mad its like a town. After that we ventured to the Zoo... one of the worst zoos ever. There were enclosures that didnt have an http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-225354.html Arrived late afternoon in the third largest city in Argentina about a million people for the statistics buffs out there. Managed to negotiate the purchase of a local bus pass bit like an Oyster card and can recommend the tourist office at the bus terminal give out a good map of the city and lots of advice probably even more useful if you can really speak Spanish. A quick bus trip into the http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-218563.html Schon wieder ist eine Woche vergangen und wir sind nun seit Dienstag in Rafaela im Haus von Patricia. Concordia war toll. Jeweils Nachmittags haben wir das Haeuschen am Fluss verlassen um die Umgebung zu erkunden. Zweimal haben wir die Stadt unsicher gemacht einmal waren wir in einem grossen Park am Stadtrand. Dabei haben wir einige Kilometer zu Fuss zurueckgelegt und die Landschaft am Fluss geno http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/blog-212900.html Unfortunately were having lots trouble with our camera at the moment and without being able to transfer our photos to a computer havent been blogging. We only had one photo for this location though so youre not missing much That photo and more to come when we reach a country where we can either speak the language in order to get the camera fixed or buy a new one for less than twice the http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-208377.html We're rushing through Argentina at this point in an effort to arrive early in Buenos Aires. According to the film Starship Troopers BA should prove to be a cultural smorgasbord of Englishspeaking Aryans and giant killer bugs. In the meantime there's no reason we can't spend a day in Rosario where Argentina apparently keeps the majority of their towering ostentatious monuments.After enduring http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-206688.html Rosario is fairly close to Buenos Aires 3 hours by bus so after staying only one night in BA we got the morning bus and planned to stay there for 34 nights before returning back to BA where we left are main bags so we could travel nice and light.One of the main reasons for coming here was because the Lonely planet described it as one of the most perfect cities and we should all be there now http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-201647.html Last weekend we hopped on the bus and crossed the Rio Parana into the province of Santa Fe to get a glimpse of the gaucho life on an estancia called Entre Rios. It was a nice breath of fresh air to get out of the city and see some of the countryside. They fed us a huge asado BBQ lunch with about three different entrees of meat and a couple vegetables and lots of bread followed by three very swe http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-183088.html Yesterday it snowed in Argentina. The first time Buenos Aires has seen snow since 1918. Rosario hasnt had snow since the 70s. It is cold. I had to buy a jacket some gloves and just picked up some long johns because jeans are not doing the trick. Weve just begun our third week of classes at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario and are adjusting to life in Rosario. We live in a very nice home http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-178029.html BA to Mercedes to Carlos Pelligini After a nine hour bus journey north of BA we arrived in sleepy comaesque town of Mercedes. The bus was very comfortable and allowed for some short bursts of sleep. It was as i awoke from one of these bursts that i seen how treachorous road conditions had become. Extreme fog and in the distance two headlighjts fast approaching. my heart began to race it was he http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Carlos-Pellegrini/blog-174231.html Narelle made me write this... Well we were here only 2 days but in that time we became quite intimate with this tiny northen town of 30000.. It consists of the usual small one way streets as all towns in Argentina seem to have but not the usual dog poo everywhere .. this is a town that appears to have nothing happening oh but it does... you just have to wait until the weekend. At the end of http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-173088.html A 4 hour bus journey from BA and we arrive in the little city of Rosario the place where Che Guevara was born We arrive in our little hostel with a reggae bar attached to it and head out to find somewhere to eat We find a nice little pizza place and end up making a sharp exit once weve paid the bill The thing is when we got a taxi back to our hostel in BA on our last night the driver cunning http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-167783.html Martn Miguel de Gemes was a general in the Argentine civil war back in 1820. He was born in Salta and led an army of Gauchos which is commemorated in June here in the city. The house in which he received his fatal wounds is now a folkloric restaurant pea. We decided to go for a meal there and whilst the food and atmosphere were good the promised espectacular was really nothing different or http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/San-Lorenzo/blog-158457.html Admitedly i love chaos. Its not that i encorage anarchy or anything its just that when the tablecloth trips the curtain rod colapes the books fall and the trolley flies down the hill im standing in the middle screaming sugar honey ice tea we have underage readers on this site. Which is probably why i feel happy in my new host family. We are well huge. I live a crumbling giant old house http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-157748.html Rosario We got a night bus directly from Montevideo .. and the only real event was realising halfway through the journey that we were due to arrive at 4am ... we'd counted on arriving much later and had to call the hostel when we arrived to see if a they were open and b if they had space. We ended up crashing out for what was left of the night in seperate girls and boys dorm rooms before bei http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-155845.html WEEK 20 RETURN TO BUENOS AIRES My last long journey from Puerto Iguazu to Rosario was on a Rio Uruguay bus. There were only 9 of us for the first 10 hours and it was quite a party. My only two Scottish encounters of the trip had a flask of gaelic coffee which set the scene. These buses run continuously only stopping briefly for passenger pick up and set down. All meals coffee and water ar http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-152542.html Woke up very tired after being kept awake allnight by a very noisy hostel. We decided weweret going out on Friday night but it seemed like everyone else did We got to sleep about 3 oclock only to be woken at 5 by 2 German boys who sat outside our room talking very loudly for 2 hours. To say I hated these two Germans would be a grose understatement. Had to check out of the hostel at 11 o http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Fe/Rosario/blog-149714.html