Blogs from South America - page 5374

The heat had now gained momentum, and it was baking as we approached Paraguay ( 35 degrees ). The drive from Salta to the border was long, so we stopped tro camp at a secluded site overnight, next to a service station. We pitched up, had dinner played cards and chilled out. As we were playing cards, a girl in our group ran over to us screaming, there was a snake in her tent! It was a baby Viper, so our driver exterminated it. Snakes!!! We arrived at the border which seemed humble enough, and again the scenery began to change as we entered this landlocked country. Before we crossed the border, we had bought a load of food, meat. This would backfire, when we reached the border, the officials were checking against foot and mouth, ... read more

So I swear, this has got to be the last trip I take out of the country for a good long while. Every single excursion I've taken has been amazing but this is too much, wouldn't you all agree? Time to stay put for a while... Anyway, I regret to inform all you dedicated fans of the travelblog that this one is severly lacking in details compared to blogs past. The purpose of the Ecuador trip was to attend one of my closest friends from graduate school's wedding to an Ecuadorian shaman/energy worker. The wedding took place on an archelogical site in Cuenca, followed by a reception the next evening that included the town band, grain alcohol and fireworks (doesn't get much better than that!). We took a couple of day trips including a visit to ... read more

87%. Not bad considering I really didn´t like my teacher and spent all my time partying! So Principiante 2A in Santiago on Monday... So, last night was not quite as intended. Finally managed to book a table at La Cabrera last night. Had one for 15 people, but had to eat early (booked for 9pm). I thought that would be plenty, until I started to make a list of people to invite!!! Once I was somewhere into the 20´s I realised I´d have to be real selective. Well, the chosen few really were ucky, because the food was out of this world. Like the dumbass that I am I forgot to change the battery in my camera, and it was dead as the proverbial dodo. So I don´t have pictures of what arrived infront of me, ... read more

There's no much to say about Ushuaia, just look at the pictures... read more

Hola all. I wanted to start by putting down a thought I have had recently about travelling, although it takes a little background information to make sense. In cognition there is a division between bottom-up and top-down "information flow" in the brain. Basically this is the difference between information, like sound waves hitting your ear drum or light rays hitting your retina, going towards your mind (phenomenological field, or ongoing conscious experience) and memories and cognition finding a place for this bottom-up information. In cognition, until very recently, the mind has been seen as mostly bottom-up information flow. So you look at something, says the cognitive scientist, it goes through "filters" and eventually leads to a perception, such as "I am looking at a dog". However, philosophers as old as Plato, have recognized that the story ... read more