Blogs from Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina, South America

Geo: -27.45, -59lovable friendly place I will remember...Beside cute encounters...I also brough my motorbike to the 2nd scheduled major service after 5000 km to ensure everything remains in order...simply a great motorcycle...My lovely Suzuki... read more

carrying on from where we left you, we spent the rest of our time in tupiza chilling out, tupiza was a strange place - very small and it really was just like the wild west!. we left tupiza at 0600 (after a lengthy check out due to our need to pay by card and the nightwatchmans incompetence) we had pre bought our bus tickets to salta (argentina) although as there was no direct bus we had to get on a public bus for a couple of hours before we could get on our bus! although the man i the booth never warned us of what was ahead, he did tell us that we had to be there at 0630 for the first bus which was fine, although there didn´t appear to be any buses which matched ... read more

Resistencia Known for its sculptures and unbearable heat. This was my first exposure to 40+°C. I spent a good deal of the daytime in the hostel. I arrived on Saturday and found a very poor tourist infrastructure. I didn't expect anything fancy, but a tourist information office would have been great. I actually spent some time chasing a phantom tourist office because the locals don't seem to really know where anything is in the city and, if they do, they don't know how to give directions (this conclusion was not drawn carelessly - I had many instances to back my results). I arrived on Saturday at 7am or so and finally found a hostel at 3pm, with no map. Resistencia proved to be mostly a waste of my time. But the sculptures were nice, even though ... read more

We only have a few days left! I'm so sad. We have an overnight flight back on Thursday the 11th. We all agree that it'll be nice to be back in a country where we can understand everything that is being said to us though. And we're looking forward to free drink refills, instead of this glass bottle crap. Day 16: Our second day at Iguazu. In the morning Greg and I went on a long hike while Nick scouted out some Blink-182 tickets (and was successful). On our hike we ran into a monkey researcher at Iguazu who was staring into the trees. She showed us two monkeys, an adult and a baby!!! It was soooo cute. She told us to look out for toucans and for a small waterfall that was at the end ... read more

From the Igauzu falls to Salta in the North of Argentina, lay the mighty ´Impenetrable Chaco´- a remarkably flat arid land covered in thorns, with little in the way of resources (both materials or people to exploit them) for the young colony to grow into. With religious and financial zeal, they still plonked settlements. It was hard going, with some being abandoned under hostile and determined pressure form the local tribes. 'Resistencia' was named following successful defence from a number of attacks. Perhaps another town named 'Reconquista' was not quite so lucky. Argentina's winter holidays and the weekend made last minute accommodation and buses hard to find. Resistencia broke up our trip between Igazu and Salta nicely into two palatable nightime segments, so unfortunately we saw none of the Impenetrable Chaco. Sandwiched between two overnight buses, ... read more