Blogs from Misiones, Argentina, South America - page 12

Awake bright and early....... well early! Tent packed away in a none-too neat bundle but fitted into the bag and away by 6.30 am. We set up the gas burners and put the kettle on so at least we would get cooks' treat of 3 cups of coffee. Cereals, yoghurt and some melon amd pears and apples cut up. Alll healthy stuff but we would have liked something different as it was more or less the same every day. We would have been happy to cook something different if there had been time but had been advised this was a 'get up and go brekkie'. On the road by 8.00 am and the weather was becoming much hotter. We stopped for the usual comfort breaks then lunch at San Ignacio de Mini where there were also ... read more

By the light of the full moon, the Garganta del Diablo looked eerie, mythical, surreal. Majestic, terrifying, unforgiving, relentless. Words simply can’t capture the noise, the immensity, the power. Water poured over the edge below, around and beyond us, an incredible stretch of foaming fury that, moments before, had flowed along its course serene and impassive. The travel gods had been good to us that day. Back in January, I’d booked us a couple of days at the Iguazú Falls as a fun place to spend Jo’s 19th birthday which would fall shortly before we began our overland adventure. That our arrival would coincide with the full moon – come to that, that there might even be “moon walks” to the Falls on the nights around each full moon – had not even flitted through my ... read more

Ok, all I can say is this was seriously some of the most fun I have had in years! I will bounce around a little in the order of the story, but please, hang in there because today was so fricken awesome I can barely contain myself. Usually when I travel I am fine just sitting here after the fact, writing my blog; however, today I have the overwhelming urge to pick up the phone and tell everyone about it in person. It was really, truly that fun. But, since my phone doesn't have an international plan and is turned off until I return home, I will have to try to convey my experiences in the written form. And again, this is the truth, I am laying in a hammock on my private screened porch in ... read more

Novamente na motorvan hj sao 21.55 de 11 marco e aproveito para escrever sobre iguazu... As magnificas cataratas. Chegamos terca a noite e estava chuvoso mas mal saimos do aviao sentimos o ar daquele ambiente tropical. Na quarta fomos entao ver as cataratas argentinas e sao de facto extraordinarias, majestosas, magnificas e merecem ser vistas, uma forca da natureza. Passeamos o dia todo pelo caminho bem tracado e organizado entre a floresta tropical que rodeia as cataratas e no final do dia regressamos ao nosso hostel q era bastante razoavel. No dia seguinte decidimos ir visitar as cataratas do lado brasileiro uma vez que se encontram no meio desses dois paises e assim foi. Fomos de autocarro, passamos as fronteiras como de costume e la fomos e nao e a mesma coisa... Aas cataratas estao mais ... read more

We can see by the lack of responses to our blog, that perhaps our blogs are becoming too boring or maybe, you are all just storing up all the news for when we get home... : ) Another boring day in our lives: We flew up to Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. We spent a couple of days here, absorbing the atmosphere of a city comprised of 12 million people (that´s over 1/4 of the population of South Africa). The city abounds with old, well maintained buildings, a lot of them built during the 1900s, when people tried to create a mini-Europe and to show off their wealth. We went on a very different walking tour of the city, with a very dramatic tour guide. We also visited Boca, a suburb claiming to be the ... read more