Sam Baker

Baker66

Sam Baker

I'm a 22 year old uni student from Tasmania, Australia. After completing my Business degree this year I'm spending 3 months travelling through South America with my brother and then Mexico.



South America » Argentina December 14th 2009

So its been a while. As i type i´m in Rio, second day here after tour finished this morning. And what a tour it was, the fact i haven´t been able to get any blogging done is mainly because of the fact that all 17 days were packed with action, amazing sights, great laughs with new friends and recovering with any sleep that was available. So I´m going to do a quick recap of the tour now, not sure whether i´ll get it all done now or have to come back for a second part. Anyway here goes.... Day 1 Saturday 28/11 (Buenos Aires) After checking out of our nice apartment we headed down to the Hotel we would be meeting our tour group and staying for 2 nights the Hotel Carsson. As we had got ... read more

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires November 27th 2009

Hola Chicos, So today we were planning to check out San Telmo and La Boca but after reaching San Telmo it was starting to rain pretty heavy and nothing much was happening because of it, so we decided to head home and catch up on these areas another day cos we still have a bit of time in BA. So i thought i´d take this opportunity to catch up on the blog before we set off on our first GAP tour from BA to Rio. 24/11 Tuesday It was up early today to check out of Hotel in Santi and take off on over 24 hours worth of bus travel back to BA via Mendoza. Catching the subway to the bus station across town during peak hour turned out to be a bit of a drama ... read more

South America » Chile » Santiago Region » Santiago November 25th 2009

So today we have just arrived back in Buenos Aires after 24 hours of bus travel from Chile. It is really hot and humid so we´re killing some time having lunch and doing this blogging until we can check into our apartment and finally get a shower and collapse on a bed. Anyway here is a recap of the last few days continuing on from where the last blog finished. 21/11 Saturday Today we were up early to grab breakfast then got a cab out to the Mendoza Bus station to get our 7 hour bus to Santiago over the Andes. After 9:15 came and went when our bus was meant to turn up i started getting a bit stressed that the first problem of the trip was about to arise but eventually the bus turned ... read more

South America » Argentina November 20th 2009

Hola Amigos, So four days in and i´m finally getting around to starting this blog thing. Don´t know how it´s going to go because i´m already finding a lack of time and sleep to be a problem, but i´ll do my best to get something down as often as possible. Tonight it´s our last night in Mendoza before we head over the Andes 2moro to Santiago de Chile. So here is a quick recap of the story so far.... Tuesday 17/11 After spending the night in the Sydney IBIS Hotel and getting about 3 hours sleep because we wanted to start acclimatising to the time soon change as soon as possible, we were off to check in. Flight from Syd to Ack was uneventful and felt pretty quick and after a few hours with the kiwis ... read more




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