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BUENOS AIRES

EL CENTROThis was the first stop on the first day of my tour. It contains the Plaza de Mayo the National Cathedral and the Presidential Palace and one of the two colonial Spanish building still standing in BA.The Plaza de Mayo is the traditional place where people go to protest government action. It is where the Mothers of the Disappeared launched their marches. It is where the crowds gathered to

BUENOS AIRES

THE DISAPPEAREDDuring the reign of the junta over 30000 persons disappeared into the prisons and detention camps never to be heard from again. That is as large as the town of Trumbull. They were mainly college students or college teachers activists for democracy and considered a threat by the dictatorship. They were imprisoned tortured and finally drugged and taken for a final plane ride and d

Da numero dos en la ciudad de Buenos Aires

I dag torsdag 32 har jeg igjen vrt p sykkeltur. Denne gangen leide jeg en sykkel sammen med to jenter jeg har mtt her nede. Vi hadde planer om dra til en av de strste og fineste parkene i byen men da vi kom dit var det ikke mulig sykle der. Det fle regnvret p nattestid har oversvmt mye av byens parker elver og innsjer s det var rett og slett ikke fremkommelig. Det v

A tale of two waterfalls part two the mighty Iguazu

ltstrong stylemsobidifontweight normalgtDay 111 Monday 30th January Our last morning in the fabulous Posadas Urbana Hotel the best hotel on this trip so far and we really didnt want to be leaving but we had a bus ticket in our pocket and needed to be moving on. After breakfast we packed our backpacks once more and went down to the foyer checked out and said our farewells to the s

The Long Way There

So just over 48 hours since we left Sunny Scunny leaving behind our new 39on hold home39 aka our 10ft x 8ft container and we39ve spent our first day in 39South America39s most electrifying city39.........Buenos AiresTo say we were knackered when we finally hit our hostel in the early hours of this morning is an understatement...It39s a good job I remembered to switch off the

Thunk. Thunk.

That in case you were wondering was the sound our jaws kept making as they repeatedly hit the ground as we hiked around the I suppose that would be jawdroppingly beautiful mountain scenery around the tiny village of El Chaltn a few hours north of El Calafate and barely a few miles from the Chilean border perched right on the edge of the Campo de Hielo Sur or Southern Patagonian Ice Fiel

En Buenos Airees

Da sitter jeg p flyet og har vrt underveis en stund. Jeg dro til Flesland med flybussen kl 03.58 onsdag morgen og klokken 6.30 lettet flyet til Amsterdam. I og med at Stine og jeg ble sittende oppe nesten hele natten frem til jeg dro sov jeg som en stein hele veien herlig. Stine vartet meg skikkelig opp med varm sjokolade cola popcorn og en nydelig frokost som jeg fikk med meg. Kan man

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Enjoying a Photo Booth for Weddings Brisbane Holds

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55 South

Our final Chilean destination was Punto Arenas. The main tourist attraction here are the Magellanic penguin colonies. Marco was convinced that they are exactly the same as the Jackass penguins. Either way we decided to give this sightseeing trip a skip and rather went to the Naval Museum. Among other things we watched an entertaining video of a sailboat that sailed around Cape Horn in the 1950s.

A tale of two Waterfalls part one

ltstrong stylemsobidifontweight normalgtDay 109 Saturday 28th January We had once again overstayed a town by a day or two and could have easily scampered yesterday but we not only had the hotel booked but we also had a tour for tomorrow so we were sort of trapped. After breakfast we had another look over the town but of course discovered nothing had changed. The heat and humidity in th

Principante 2 Can't see the forest for the verbs

Good evening from a rainy Buenos Aires.A thunderstorm hit last evening and the unsettled weather remained all day with rain and wind. It is the first completely cloudy day I have had here in almost 4 weeks. I was walking to school in the rain hoping it was not an omen of what was to come.I started the next level today with a new classroomnew book and a number of new students. It is quite the Unit

The End of the World

How fitting that in 2012 we should find ourselves in a place known as the end of the world. Of course the world is not coming to an end rather we are visiting the southernmost city on Earth Ushuaia. There are 2 other cities vying for this title but since this is the one we are in it wins. This stop marks an extreme of our journey the farthest we will be away from home on the entire trip.

Verbo Ser or not to Ser

Good evening bloggerssaturday evening here in BA and another warm day in the capital.It has been a week of school again with the focus on a test that I wrote yesterday.The levels at school are divided into three week blocks and my level drew to a close friday with my first written testmy first test in a long while.Let me just say I am not good with these things and had a difficult week thinking

On a mission from God

ltstrong stylemsobidifontweight normalgtDay 105 Tuesday 24th January To Paraguay or not that is todays decision from Posadas we can get a day tour to the Jesuit missions just across the border but the only problem is we need a visa. First thing this morning we went to the small Paraguay consulate two blocks from our hotel to investigate the costs and the procedures. The consulate

Vervolgje..

Aanschouw het vervolg op het verhaal van gisteren De dag voor we naar 39Petrohue39 zijn geweest heb ik een feestje gebouwd met een hele groep Chilenen uit de hoofdstad Santiago. Aangezien we maar 1 auto hadden en veel gezelschap zaten we met 12 oh jawel in 1 auto Wanneer we terug wouden vertrekken vanuit de discotheek stond de politie buiten als controle.. Was dat ff spannend haha

El Calafate and Ushuaia

The time finally came to say bye to Buenos Aires well for now and head to southern Argentina Patagonia to a little town called El Calafate.We took a 3 hour flight down south and even the view from the plane was amazing. From the plane we could see the southern peak of the Andes and the amazing turquoise lake well i say we but i mean me as i always get the window seat At the airport i got a bi

Cafayate

We arrived in Cafayate in the evening and luckily for us the Rusty K hostel had a room for us. As we got off the bus we were approached by many people offering us rooms but we wanted to go our own way and look for the recommended Lonely Planet hostel.It being very cold we went to the main plaza in search of the warmest looking restaurant we could find El Rancho did the trick the restaurant wi

BUENOS AIRES

LA BOCA SAN TELMOLa Boca is the earliest neighborhood in the city. It is where the first immigrants landed it is its original port and its poorest area. Today the port has moved and the area is a combination of industrial and tourist destination. It is where the tango began. The magic of La Boca is its local color much of which is geared to the tourist trade but is still fun to experienc

BUENOS AIRES

BUENOS AIRESDay OneI wont even begin to tell you all that I enjoyed yesterday. I had arranged for a walking tour for the day planning to invite a couple to join me.Yesterday I met Tom and Dave from Honolulu in the Crows Nest waiting to disembark and they seemed like a good choice. We disembarked together they helped with my luggage and we shared a cab to the hotel. We thought we were getti