Blogs from Corrientes, Argentina, South America - page 3

We had an uneventful 10 hour trip from Iguazu to Corrientes yesterday (We did see some rheas which are like ostriches and endangered...) ...except for noticing for the first time that the guide book explained that Corrientes has one of the biggest Carnavals in Argentina...and that this weekend was during Carnaval....and that hundreds of thousands of people attend.... We did not have a reservation and you can the total number of hotels in town on your fingers.... Well, we found a room in the worst hotel in town...across from the bus station. It was strange place...charged extra for air con...pretty low on any frills...but clean and actually pretty quiet. Since we didn´t use the air con at night (it was one of the jet engine types) they gave us free breakfast...(coffee and a few rolls). We ... read more

Heh, Wow! Can´t believe it´s almost Christmas time! It´s great here-the trees, decorations etc have only gone up in the last week or 2. It doesn´t feel like Christmas though as it´s so warm. Anyway, Mendoza was a fantastic city! It´s pretty famous for it´s wines in particular. The highlight of our few days there was a bike tour of some of the wineries. We rented bikes from Mr Hugo (a legend who just rapidly rabbits on in Spanish, laughing away so we just laughed too))and spent the entire day cycling around wineries, a chocolate liquor factory and an olive oil factory-drinking and eating and cycling...It was great fun. the weather was fab and the wine and chocolate were good. There are wineries everywhere-a lot of them just family run boutique wineries. Malbec wine is the ... read more

Ca vaut le detour c est assez impressionant. Se sont les plus grandes cascade du monde ou les seconde je sais pas exactement. A la guest house j ai rencontrer une equipe d Israelien et maintenant je suis ultra caler sur leur mode de vie. A 18 arme 3 ans pour les garcons et 2 ans pour les filles. Ensuites petiot travail pendant 6 mois un an et ensuite travel de 6 mois minimum. Voila leur vie l arme c est pas terrible mais le voyage c est sympas. Apres seulement ils commencent leur etudes. Pour moi le probleme de leur voyage est qu ils restent tout le temps entre eux et ils ont meme un site special en hebreux. A plus... read more

We breezed into the province of Misiones in our little jam packed car, travelling up the western fringe of this outcrop of Argentina, with the River Parana forming the national boundary. From our lodgings in Paso de La Patria, we strolled beside the river, watching the sun set over Paraguay. That evening we ate our customary steak and chips dinner to the background of a news report on the 26th anniversary of the Falklands war. It was a national holiday - for those who weren´t already on strike - and possibly not the best day to be English in Argentina. This province has a rich heritage of Jesuit missions - hence its name - and we visited the impressive ruins at San Ignacio. A huge complex, where the indigenous Guarani people were housed, educated and encouraged ... read more

I´ve learned 2 things in the past day or so. 1. 2 backpacks, a travel pillow and a sarong make excellent bedding at a bus station at 5 in the morning 2. Never trust information from a bus station in Mercedes, even if they work for the bus company which apparently goes to your destination. So after the excitment of the border crossing yesterday we got on a night bus from Colon to Mercedes, smelly and exhausted. We managed to get a bit of sleep which was good, and set an alarm for 3:45 just in case we were sound out and missed our stop. At 4:30 we both woke up and the bus was stopped by the side of the road. One of the drivers´ sidekicks was frantically running up and down the bus (double ... read more