Blogs from South America - page 5669

Well I just got to Bariloche last night after three days in Las Leñas and it was absolutely beautiful there. It was lacking a bit of snow because it's still farely early in the season but the scenery was absolutly amazing. I should've taken more photos but was bit worried about carrying around my camera evrywhere while I'm doing Backflip360's around the place - you know how it is. And I met a couple of guys from England so spent most of the time with them, good dudes with similar ideas to me so we had a good time. And tomorrow I'm to try the slopes of Bariloche so hopefully that goes as well as Las Leñas. What a hard life I lead... oohohohohohoh siiiiiiiiiiii Las Leñas son buenisimas! falta un poco nieve pero todovia lo pase muy bien, es ... read more

Well I arrived in Mendoza City this morning really early and after a qiuck powerkip at Fabricio's brother's house we went off to sample a bit of quality Argentinian wine, and it didn't dissapoint! :) ... read more

Well it finally came and we finally went. The rally was all last weekend and although we only got to see it one day and one night cos we partied a bit too much for my birthday it was still really good - plenty of sideways action, plenty of noise and even a couple of crashes right infont of us at night so I was happy. When we woke up in the later part of Saturday afternoon after my party we shot down to the Pilattis family weekend house which is like a hundred metres from where the cars were to go past the following morning. We had a great night making fires and doing other cool boys stuff before getting up really early to get a good posy for watching the cars. awesome weekend! For everyone who ... read more

Here are some pics from Northern Chile. Arica is Chile's most northerly city and is also one of the driest places on earth. Parque Nacional Lauca is at 6000 m above sea level. Tacna, is a small town in southern Peru, where we hopped the border to have lunch and get a Peru passport stamp. I will have to come back to Peru as a lunch trip isn't giving it the justice it deserves! (sorry, not all pics are loaded at this time...)... read more

The Fray Jorge Forest has become a natural relic, a water-loving forest left behind from the Quarternary Period. One might say that it is a demonstration of what once existed of today's Atacama Desert, the driest in the world, during the last glaciation that occurred almost 30,000 years ago, when humid forests were distributed among even the lowest latitudes.The existence of the Valdivian humid forest at this latitude is caused by a permanent coastal fog, an extraordinary phenomenon that creates a suitable microclimate in which terebinth shrubs, cinnamon trees, myrtle, ferns and creepers can grow. ... read more