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South America » Chile December 17th 2004

11.12.04 Rachel ging am morgen reiten. Drei Stunden auf einem Pferd war mir doch zuviel. Ich besuchte dafuer die Pukara de Quitor, ein Ort mit vielen Ruinen. Eigentlich dachte ich, dass 3 Kilometer zu Fuss nicht so viel sind. Irgendwann kam ich auch an, nachdem etliche Autos und Velos an mir vorbeigefahren sind. Bei den Ruinen selbst lief ich nochmals etwa 20 Minuten den Berg hoch. Aber das Laufen hat sich gelohnt, die Aussicht war einfach genial. Gleich in der Naehe war auch noch eine Hoehle zu besichtigen, was ich auch tat. Danach hiess es, den ganzen Weg wieder zu Fuss zurueck zu laufen. Waere ja alles nicht so schlimm, aber ich hatte statt an Wasser und Essen nur an meine Fotokamera gedacht. So war ich froh, endlich wieder im Zentrum zu sein und etwas kaufen ... read more
Pukara de Quitor
Pukara de Quitor
Sandboarding stand leider nicht auf unserer Liste

South America » Brazil » Alagoas » Maceió December 17th 2004

Welcome to my travel blog. I would like to thank everyone that has agreed to participate in this blog. My trip, as it stands now, will be from the 21st of January until the 14th of May. The first month will be spent at surf school, Carnival, and my family’s beach house. The last three months will be spent in Maceio, which is the capital of the state of Alagoas. Maceio is located on the northeast coast of Brazil (about two hours flying time from Rio), on a narrow strip of land between a lagoon and the Atlantic Ocean. (Just in case you wanted to stop by for a weekend visit) The city grew around a sugar mill following the Dutch occupation during the early 17th century. The Portuguese gained control of Maceió in 1654 and ... read more

South America » Chile » Magallanes December 17th 2004

Now that we were at the end of the world.. we had to go north, So with a short flight, we arrived in the Argentinian town of El Calafate. This is the heart of prime cattle and sheep grazing land, and was the scene of violent labour uprising in the 20s.. Nowadays, it is a pleasant, touristy little town that attracts visitors primarily because of the Los Glacieres national park nearby, and in particular, the Perito Moreno Glacier. As we headed West, the arid, barren plains gave way to pine forest, then to the mountains. Then, nestled at the bottom of a huge glacier that decends from the Ice Shelf up in the Andes Plateau, the Moreno Glacier.. it is a stunning sight.. 25 miles long, and 3 miles wide, and as it suddenly ends into ... read more
Perito Moreno Glacier
Glacier up close..
Ice Breaking off the Moreno Glacier

South America » Argentina » Tierra del Fuego » Ushuaia December 17th 2004

Even with all of the excitement of our day on the Moreno glaciar, we managed to book a flight to Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego for the same afternoon. We landed in the southernmost tip of Argentina after only an hour by plane and found ourselves in an even colder place than El Calafate, it did feel very Christmassy though. At the tourist office we were given the name of a B&B, ´Los Retamas´ run by Eduardo and Monica. They were a lovely couple who really took us under their wing and within half an hour of arriving we knew the best things to see and do in the area and had about ten maps to choose from. They beat the Lonely Planet hands down! Southernmost road in the world! Next day we set off in ... read more
As far south as we could go (by car)
Tierra del Fuego National Park
Almost in Chile....

South America » Argentina » Santa Cruz » El Calafate December 16th 2004

After a quick flight to Buenos Aires from Santiago (2 hours) - the second flight on our round the world ticket - we immediately went to the Aerolineas Argentinas ticket sales counter in the airport to buy our tickets to El Calafate. The flight left next morning, and cost only 300 pesos - about 50 pounds each, bargain. I´ve dated this article 16th December, although we arrived in BA on 15th. We´ll add another article later when we´ve got something more on BA. So, we got to El Calafate and shared a taxi into town with a couple of Frenchies. We found a rather crappy hostal (the Albergue Beunos Aires) but settled for it as it was quite cheap and had a good enough location. We weren´t going to be in El Calafate for very long ... read more
Pete looking pretty amongst the flowers
A piece of ice shears off
Lots of ice

South America » Colombia December 12th 2004

Well that little side trip to Medellin turned out to be a 2week residency filled with great people and lots of dancing... my clases of salsa were excellent, so when they finished I took up a few more of Merengue and Porro which were just as cool if not cooler... I kept meeting great people and feeling very at home everywhere I went, I think Medellin is definately a place I will re-visit one day and would reccomend to anyone interested in travelling through Colombia. The only thing that helped me drag myself away, was the Carribean coast calling me for some beach time before going back to Argentina for Christmas, so thursday arvo after sending off a few belated emails I caught the metro to the north end and started walking. The $60 bus fee ... read more
Medellin girl, enjoying the bright lights and action of the 7th of Dec Parade
Traditional dance - 7th of Dec Parade, Medellin
La Playa - main street of Medellin after the Parade

South America » Chile » Santiago Region » Santiago December 12th 2004

We arrived in Santiago after our longest bus journey to date, twenty three hours on a bus from San Pedro de Atacama in the north of the country. We were met at the bus station by Claudio, the owner of Donde Claudio where we would be staying. He was a jolly Chileano with perfect English and immediately set about organising everything from doctor's appointments to transport to the airport for us. His hostel was great too, very communal, relaxed and sociable. The location of the hostel was perfect, it felt like a quiet suburban area (there was a ballet school across the road with classical music coming from it every morning and hardly any cars) but we were only a ten minute walk from the city centre. The area, Bellavista was also the location of some ... read more
The Museo de las Bellas Artes
A Horsey
Sarah in the beautiful garden at Cerro Santa Lucia

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires December 11th 2004

We´ve been in Buenos Aires for a couple of days now... around every corner this city proves to us again and again that it is one of the must see cities in the world. We had high expectations because people we´ve talked to in the past two months have raved about it. We really, really wanted it to live up to that reputation, and it does! Culinary art, theater, architecture, city grittiness (and non-grittiness), lush parks and harbors fuse into one little tastey, dulce de leche pastry that would be great washed down with a latté sitting at a street-side café. yum. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes had a great exhibit on Argentine painters and sculptors, the portraits in this exhibit really stuck with me, and if I had my notebook at the time I would ... read more

South America » Chile December 10th 2004

03.12.04 - 06.12.04 Mann, war das ein Stress, die Woche als ich noch zu Hause war. Und ich dachte, ich haette alles gut vorbereitet. Aber immerhin, ich habe alles soweit vorbereitet, dass ich es vom Ausland aus abwickeln kann, ausser die Steuererklaerung, aber wen interessiert die schon, ausser die Gemeinde ;-). Und dann gings schon los. Freitag um 15.30 Uhr fuhren wir frueh genug zum Flughafen, um ja nicht zu spaet anzukommen. Aber anscheinend wollte mich die Schweiz nicht gehen lassen. Der Flug nach London wurde annulliert. Somit durfte ich schon in einer langen Schlange stehen und hoffen, dass doch noch alles klappt. Ich erhielt ein Ticket von Alitalia, juhee. Nur als ich dann am Check-in stand, hiess es, dass ich nicht auf der Liste sei. Ich musste am Gate warten bis zum Schluss, dann konnten ... read more
Rachel in unserem Dorm
Lance und Andrew in unserem Dorm
auch die Männer brauchen viel Gepäck

South America » Brazil » Paraná » Foz do Iguaçu December 10th 2004

We got into Puerto Igazu at about noon on Wednesday and caught a 12:40 bus to the falls. I could spend ages describing how unbelieveable they were, but you probably wouldn't believe me....... (that's stupid). Look at the photos instead. We spent most of the afternoon there, got a bus back to Puerto Igazu, grabbed our bags and headed over to Brazil. My Finnish (EU) passport paid off well at the crossing, no $160 visa for me!! Border control actually consisted of the bus driver asking anyone if they needed their passports stamped, we would have missed it if we weren't paying attention. We got the bus at 9pm and got into Curitiba at about 7am in the morning. Clare (a friend from when I worked at Bear Valley Ski Resort in the US) picked us ... read more
Getting up close and personal
More of the same
Brazil!!




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