Blogs from South America - page 5345

So we had a bit of spare time left when we were in Buenos Aires and people told us how easy it was to jump on the buquebus to Uruguay so we did a bit of research and decided Punta del Este was the place for us. Lots of rich Brasilian and Argentinian holidaymakers with their designer clothes and shades - we fit right in in our primark rags and backpacks!!! Well the Buquebus was booked up due to Mardi Gras so we ventured to the bus station with hope in our hearts and killer backpacks on and managed to get a bus there. After long journey our priorities were the basic human needs shelter - the worst hostel yet, Food - yet another ham and cheese toastie, and water - well Vodka, Bacardi and Martini! ... read more

Four days until Mariahs birthday. I am reminding myself that I need to buy a calling card as well as remember to call her. I am sitting in a cafe somewhere in San Telmo. The people sitting next to me I think are speaking Portueges. It sounds a little like French and I can reconize a couple of words. Yes it must be Portueges. I have been walking around San Telmo, wandering a little but never losing where Avenida Defensa is. (Ave. Defensa intersects with Brasil at my apartment.) The more I wander the more I feel like I am not in Buenos Aires, at least the BsAs I saw with Mom and Auntie San. There are no wide avenues lined with trees and its not the micro center filled with business men and women and ... read more

Okay so i started my charity work 3 weeks ago but have been way too busy to get round to updating the blog, so here is a brief summary of what i have been upto here in cuzco: Firstly there are 12 of us aged between 17 and 24, 4 boys and 8 girls all from the UK other than one of the boys who is from the states. We are working in a boys orphanage located pretty near the centre of Cuzco (about 10 mins walk from the centre) that takes kids from ages 4 to 16, there are 25 of them. The work that we av been set is to renovate 3 bathrooms, putting in toilets, showers and hot water, and to completely re-do a massive games room (plastering, painting and designing the interior) ... read more

Sao Paulo! Sao Paulo! Sao Paulo! The best city in the world! Today we slept in until 4:50 am... no wait we got up early... no wait we never even slept... anyone know what day it even is? Found our way to the bus station, and to our bus, probably the nicest bus I have ever seen, it even fed us and gave us Portuguese newspaper(s). We arrived in Sao Paulo at 11:57 AM. What a beautiful day. Gorgeous view, and smog levels at an all time medium. Some of the beautiful sights we saw between our arrival at 11:57AM and our flight out to Iguacu at 3:51PM were more incredible than we ever expected. First of all, we saw the gorgeous Sao Paulo bus station, (apparently the nicest one in the city) before embarking on ... read more

English We are now in Bolivia! We arrived here by crossing the border with Argentina from La Quiaca. Visiting La Quiaca, the northest part of Argentina, is one of the cool (or maybe silly?) things that one could do together with visiting the southern most part of Argentina, Ushuaia (more than 5000 km far south). Argentinian buses do not dare to cross the border and have problems through the bad gravel roads of Bolivia, so they left us before the border just to say 'And now on foot!'. So we grabbed our backpacks and started to walk for about one km to cross the border (after having our last argentinan milanesa con papas fritas of course...). It was a bit hard since we were at 3500 meters of altitude and with so much weight you can ... read more