Blogs from Argentina, South America

29th December 2020 The 3rd of my trips yesterday. Buenos Aires - Plaza de Mayo The Plaza de Mayo is the oldest public square in Buenos aires, and has been the scene of many of the most important events in the city's history. The square is named after the Argentine revolution, which began on May 25, 1810. So many beautiful buildings around the square including the cathedral where Pope Francis conducted mass for 20 years, the seat of the national government, the national bank and the intelligence secretariat & one of the oldest bookstores in Argentina. The green kiosks are the only place that people can buy newspapers. Buenos Aires is the only Argentine city with a metro system. The rainbow road crossings show just how diverse Argentina is in relation to LGBTQ pride. Fabian our ... read more

The world seemed an even bigger place in 1978. The World Cup party that had once rolled down Linthorpe Road in Middlesbrough in 1966 was in full swing in Buenos Aires. I watched the television, awe inspired, as a schoolboy. What a place to watch your football. We knew little of the politics of military junta at the time. Frankly if we had, I doubt we would have cared one iota. I was watching the sky filled with the trademark paper falling down from the stands and a brand of football that we didn't encounter on the playing fields at home. In amongst the festival of football, a young urchin was juggling footballs for the TV crews. The next superstar? We didn't know. Diego Armando Maradona. It turns out we would hear a lot more about ... read more

Pas de grand texte puisque tout expliqué lors du dernier blog... Vous vous promenerez en images... Si gran texto ya que esta todo explicado en el ultimo blog... Pasearan con las imagenes....... read more

Wednesday 4 March, 2020 - Buenos Aires Our 12.40pm flight was delayed back to 2.45pm, which was inconvenient to say the least because it meant we missed our Air Canada connection in Santiago. We were rerouted to a flight 2hrs later but we had to scramble with communications to our driver in Buenos Aires, as well as our Airbnb host. The flight itself was completely packed and Dwayne was bumped out of his aisle seat into the middle, so that was not fun. Same happened on our Latam connection. On a positive note, we flew over the South Island of NZ and had a bird’s eye view of the southern alps, from Mt Cook to Milford Sound. Very pretty. Finally arrived in BA at our apartment at 7pm, did the handover and made our way out ... read more

Friday 14thFebruary 2020 Chris had planned a couple of walking tours, but after yesterday’s walking tour failure and as Buenos Aires is such a large sprawling City, we decided to buy a 48hr hop on, hop off bus ticket (@ 45 US $ pp). Left the ship just after 8.00am and caught the shuttle to the Port Gates, got our tickets for the Big Bus and then had to wait 10 mins to get a yellow bus company shuttle bus to the Bus Stop for the yellow HOHO bus. All seemed very complicated!! Caught the bus at red stop 14 and were treated to some of the sights of Buenos Aires! It is full of trees, statues, churches, clock towers, fountains, parks and gardens as well as old grand French and Italian style palaces and buildings ... read more

Salinas Grandes Etter noen timers kjøring gjennom vakkert fjellterreng fra Humahuaca, kom vi fram til saltsletta. For å komme ut på saltflaten, kan du enten kjøre med en guidebil eller få en guide til å kjøre din egen bil. Vi valgte det siste. Denne saltørkenen er dannet av vulkaner, i motsetning til Salar de Uyuni i Bolivia, som er havbunn. Det var en spesiell opplevelse og flott å komme ut på saltflaten. Enkelte steder dannes det hull/små råker fordi det kommer opp vann fra bunnen under saltet. Godt å ha en kjentmann som visste hvor hullene var! Parque Nacional Calilegua Fra Salinas Grandes kjørte vi til en liten by som heter Calilegua. Hensikten var å besøke nasjonalparken med samme navn, som er en subtropisk regnskog. Den går fra 550 moh og opp til 1500 moh. Det ... read more