Blogs from Córdoba, Argentina, South America - page 6

Rumi says that we should sell our cleverness and buy bewilderment. He also says a lot of other things that are right on and lovely, but I´m sticking with this one for tonight because it seems to apply for Cordoba. Usually, when I sit down to put one of these posts together, an attempt is made to pick out one story or situation and make it bigger than it was using words (cleverness). Tonight I say nay! Let´s follow this pro-bewilderment trail and see how it goes. Cordoba started out not so great. I arrived early in the morning after a sleepless night on the bus, arriving to my hostel cranky and hungry. After a cup of coffee or two I headed out, ready to orient myself in another Argentine city. I had heard nothing but ... read more

Our overnight bus from Mendoza arrived in Cordoba at dawn, giving us little time to wake up and get our stuff together before we were walking half asleep through the terminal trying to find a bus or taxi to take us to our hostel. As it turns out, there are no local buses from the terminal and we had to wait in a 20 person cue for a taxi. Fortunately the taxi was chearp and we arrived promptly to the hostel. Our beds weren't ready at that hour of the morning, and as we were not going to waste any time, we set out to wakl the city soon after our arrival. Our first stop was at an underground Jesuit mission. It was only recently rediscovered in 1989, when a paving crew uncovered it while renovating ... read more

After breakfast, Ed decided he didn't want to ride for a second day (but he did give his erstwhile horse a little pat when it was handed out to someone else to ride that day). We sat around most of the day as Jo was feeling unwell and we had decided to pack up and take a taxi an hour and a half to Cordoba to find a decent doctor to sort her out. The plan was to find a hotel for the night and rejoin the group the following day in Cordoba. However, Kevin was taking a trip to the dentist at 5.30 pm to Faldo (a town 40 minutes away in the other direction) and offered to take us to his Clinic there. We were extremely grateful as it would save a lot of ... read more

We packed up our tents bright (or not so bright) and early and had breakfast. The cook group made scrambled eggs by the bucketful!! The bus then drove off towards a horseriding ranch we would be staying at for three nights. We stopped off on the way for cooking ingredients as whilst there would be a barbecue for one night organised by the Estancia (ranch), the remaining meals were to be self-catered. We stopped at a Supermarket this time as there was no local market in the vicinity. The scenery - as we went up into the hills approaching the Estancia - was reallt lovely. Rolling green hills and pretty villages. We arrived at the Estancia around 3.00 pm. We were delighted not to have to camp and we had the only double room as both ... read more

Sigamos entao para o destino seguinte, zona de cordoba. Posteriormente sera mendoza e finalmente santiago. Saimos de buenos aires na sexta a noite com destino a cordoba onde chegariamos no sabado de manha cedo. A viagem correu bem sem sobressaltos, mas deixem me dizer vos que os autocarros peru eram bastante bons e os do chile tb. Olhando para tras acho q na argentina sem haver razao de queixa, faltava lhes qq coisa. Bom, estavamos nos a chegar a cordoba, e demos nova olhada ao guia e pensamos, ja tivemos a experiencia de buenos aires e cidade e agora vamos para outra? Foi entao que percebemos que o nosso autocarro ia para capilla del monte e ja tinhamos ouvido o nome mas depois entendemos que era um destino e quando chegamos a cordoba decidimos ficar e ... read more