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South America » Uruguay » District of Montevideo » Montevideo February 17th 2006

Three weeks three countries... No I'm not just collecting Stamps in my passport I really heard its worth going to Uruguay. Colonia What is there to say about Colonia. It was founded 1680 by the Portuguese to piss of the Spanish which just founded Buenos Aires and to smuggle stuff into BA. It is named by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site; it is really cute and has lot of old building and cobble stone streets. Have a look at the pics and you know what I mean. Montevideo Before you ask no I didn’t mention that I live in Australia while I'm in Montevideo. Somehow that didn’t seem to be a wise thing to do. (For the non Australians. Australia beat Uruguay in the qualifier of the WM and kicked them out of the ... read more

South America » Argentina » Córdoba February 17th 2006

Well A trip finally materailized for last Saturday, I went hiking and it was good to get out of the city. I went with the same person from the school who has tryed to organize several other trips that he cancelled but this one finally happened. I arrived at the school at 8:30 am and there were three other students in the car. Two were from the other big language school here and one was from my school. The two women were from Belgium and spoke French. The guy was England. The guy and one of the girls were living in the same residental house here in Cordoda. They were exhaused and we had not even begun the trip. But this trip for them was only a continuation of the night before. They arrived home from ... read more

South America » Uruguay » West » Colonia del Sacramento February 17th 2006

Three weeks three countries... No I'm not just collecting Stamps in my passport I really heard its worth going to Uruguay. Colonia What is there to say about Colonia. It was founded 1680 by the Portuguese to piss of the Spanish which just founded Buenos Aires and to smuggle stuff into BA. It is named by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site; it is really cute and has lot of old building and cobble stone streets. Have a look at the pics and you know what I mean. Montevideo Before you ask no I didn’t mention that I live in Australia while I'm in Montevideo. Somehow that didn’t seem to be a wise thing to do. (For the non Australians. Australia beat Uruguay in the qualifier of the WM and kicked them out of the race ... read more
View of Colonia from the ferry
Calle de los suspiros
Another pic of a pretty street

South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro February 17th 2006

The start of my trip was really left footed. Why was it left footed, you ask? Well, for starters we had a really great flight: Our plane from Tel Aviv to Madrid was late by an hour, so we had 15 minutes to catch our connection to Rio De Janeiro. When we came running to the terminal, we discovered that our plane to Rio was going to be late by another one and a half hours. Then when we finally had landed in Rio, we went to take our baggage, but of course, it hadn't arrived. Apparently the Iberia people has decided that it ought to rest some time in Tel Aviv... There was a really long line to declare our lost baggage in the airport, as they lost the baggage of half of the airplane ... read more
Iberia
Me & Ran

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires February 17th 2006

Friday is a day of exploration. Holden and Julia are off to locate the Brazilian Consulate to start the process to obtain visas. Herv and Karla are off to explore San Telmo - the Tango neighborhood. It is basically just around the corner from the hotel, but we have to cruise by the Casa Rosada and along one of the main streets just to soak up more of the BA feeling. San Telmo is packed with antique stores and crafts vendors. There is evidence of a renaissance, as some of the older buildings are being renovated and lots of sold signs are apparent. The local vendors have a wide variety of beautiful produce - watermelons 30" long and ears of corn nearly a foot long - that make your mouth water. Since we walk almost everywhere ... read more
San Telmo
San Telmo
San Telmo

South America » Brazil » Mato Grosso do Sul » Bonito February 17th 2006

Ok, so it's been a week since we left Bonito but this is the first chance we´ve had to write about it (see next entry). Spent a couple of beautiful hot days here, a bike ride to an artificial beach, which included volleyball courts in and out of the water, a "Flying Fox" hang-slide into the lake, a trampoline, and huge fish surrounding you as you wade through the shallow end! The next day was spent snorkelling, unfortunately we have no photos other than us in our wetsuits (very flattering!), but it was amazing. The waters were absolutely crystal clear, and in fact we weren´t allowed to touch the bottom as disturbing the limestone would dirty the water. The fish were beautiful, colourful, and unperturbed by us floating silently above them watching their every move. One ... read more

South America » Argentina » Tierra del Fuego » Ushuaia February 17th 2006

There were no roses or candy this Valentine´s day. Griff and I woke up in the morning, walked across the room to the other from our tiny twin beds, wished each other a Happy Valentine´s Day, and headed to the bus station for our seven hour bus ride to Punta Arenas. The trip was only a portion of our voyage to the end of the earth, Ushuaia, which is on the southern tip of South America. It is one heck of a journey, requiring us to head inland from Argentina, cross the border into Chile, hop another bus from Chile back into Argentina, and drive another twelve hours with a transfer between one junky buss to another. (Each buss gets squishier and older the farther you go.) Most of the twelve hour ride is over gravel ... read more
Punta Tombo
Griff and Friends
Penguin Pup

South America » Brazil » Paraná » Foz do Iguaçu February 17th 2006

It was a long drive once again from Asuncion, to cross the border and on to Brazil. It was very hot and stuffy on our bus too. But the time soon passed. The border was manic, many people cross from Brazil to buy duty free goods on the Paraguay side of the border. It was then a short drive in to the town of Foz, home of the amazing Iguassu Falls. We pitched up our tents at the campsite which has a pool, cooked dinner and had a swim, and celebrated a birthday of a girl on our trip. There are also other travellers at our site, this is getting more common now as everybody in this region is heading for Rio for Carnaval next week. Thursday morning we left the camp at 8am, and crossed ... read more
Tucan
The Iguassu Falls
Iguassu from the Sky


"Cuando el hombre no está separado de la naturaleza, la naturaleza no está separada del hombre" Den perfekten Ort, den Platz zum wohlfuehlen, entspannen, (be-)staunen und um die Seele baumeln zu lassen, haben wir in der Estancia Peuma Hue am Lago Gutierrez gefunden. Dort haben wir drei Tage wie im Maerchen verbracht - aber fuer manche Eindruecke und manche Erlebnisse gibt es einfach keine Worte. Daher einfach nur: Seht selbst -und- wir sind sehr, sehr, sehr gluecklich dort gewesen zu sein. Vielen lieben Dank fuer all die Glueckwuensche zu meinem Geburtstag: Ich habe mich ueber jeden Einzelnen gefreut wie eine Schneekoenigin. DANKE !!!!! MUCHAS GRACIAS !!!!!!! Nochmals besos & alles Liebe Eure Silke ... read more
Der Traum beginnt...
Blick aus unserer Suite
endlich mal Platz


Hallo ihr Alle, nach unserem traumhaften Aufenthalt auf der Estancia Peuma Hue (dazu mehr in einem anderen Blog) sind wir nun wieder zurueck in San Carlos de Bariloche, der Schweiz Suedamerikas. Und die schweizerischen bzw. deutschen Spuren sind nicht nur im Stadtbild immer wieder zu entdecken, sondern auch in kulinarischer Hinsicht: Leckere Schokolade gibt es hier in allen Variationen und auch das Kaesefondue fehlt nicht auf den Speisekarten. Auch ansonsten ist Bariloche eine wunderschoene Stadt am Lago Nahuel Huapi, umgeben von Bergen, Bergen, Bergen und See, Seen, Seen. Auch weiterhin begleitet uns das schoene Wetter und so haben wir bei ausgiebigen Spaziergaengen Bariloche und seine Umgebung erkundet & am Seeufer gesessen, bevor wie uns fuer unseren Estanciaufenthalt bei einer richtigen Shoppingtour neu eingekleidet haben... Hier aber vorerst mal Fotos ... read more
Blick ueber Bariloche
descanso
ohne Worte




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