 | I'm in love...
2009-07-23, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: wcaruso | | ...with this city! haha Buenos Aires was so amazing, I didn't write ANY blogs when I was there, so here I am, safe at home in Sebastopol afte 15 hours on 3 planes to tell you a little bit about it. W... |
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 | Weekend in Bs As
2009-07-20, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: kwarne | | Bs As is still amazing - we are all in love with it. It has a nice mix of European and Spanish culture...reminds me of studying abroad!
Friday night we went out to an area called Palermo, which is ... |
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 | Bad News & Good News
2009-06-20, Mendoza, Argentina. By: julieanna | | Let's start with the bad news...
Today my team and I were going to the bus station to catch our bus from Mendoza to Santiago. However, when we arrived we discovered that the snow storms have moved... |
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| Bs As
2009-07-17, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: kwarne | | Buenos Aires is absolutely amazing! I dont want to leave, and we havent even seen a tenth of the city yet! It is such a gorgeous city - the architecture of all the buildings are really European. It is... |
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| Finally in Buenos Aires
2009-07-15, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: kwarne | | We finally arrived in the much anticipated Buenos Aires! I cant belive our whole trip has been leading up to this city - and we are here!
Last night we got a 715 bus out of Puerto Iguazu, and arri... |
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| Iguazu Falls
2009-07-15, Puerto Iguazu, Argentina. By: kwarne | | After a 24 bus ride from Salta, we arrived in Puerto Iguazu Monday afternoon. The bus was long - but the seats reclined, they played english movies and we got fed so it wasnt that bad. By the time we ... |
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| Argentina!
2009-07-12, Salta, Argentina. By: kwarne | | We just arrived in Salta, Argentina! Last night after the Salt Tour we took an overnight train to Villazon, which is at the border of Bolivia and Argetina. Once again, it was extremely bumpy and we go... |
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 | In the Desert (Part One)
2009-06-13, Mendoza, Argentina. By: SurAmerica | | For the past week I, along with forty other people, have been in a remote hard core area of the deserts outside of Mendoza, Argentina. We all were pushed physically, mentally, and spiritually to our ... |
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| Update by David
2009-06-13, mendoza, Argentina. By: SurAmerica | | The Mission trip in Mendoza had been an amazing time! We all have learned so much about God character, attribute, and love during the last few days in the desert on the Niko. A Niko is a 5 day extream... |
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| We are now in Argentina!
2009-06-08, mendoza, Argentina. By: SurAmerica | | Last week was our last week in Chile. God is good and blessed us with sunshine that whole week. We were able to work with a bunch of kids, pray for the leaders (such as the mayor)of Arauco, Josh cel... |
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 | San Agustin de Valle Fertil
2009-04-27, San Agustin, Argentina. By: rossnkaren | | This area is the base for visits to Talampaya National Park and Valle de la Luna.
Talampaya is a park with huge canyons and petroglyphs (symbols and pictures cut into stone) that we could actuall... |
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 | Mendoza
2009-04-23, Mendoza, Argentina. By: rossnkaren | | Mendoza is famous for its wine and olives. The best way too see it is to hire a bike and do your own tour of the vineyards and olive groves and, obviously, sample a broad cross section of the availab... |
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 | Neuquen
2009-04-19, Neuquen, Argentina. By: rossnkaren | | Apart from it's amazing scenery, glaciers and preservation of the Welsh language (?!). Patagonia is also famous for Dinosaurs. Really big ones.
Near Neuquen there are three major places of paleon... |
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 | Bariloche
2009-04-12, Bariloche, Argentina. By: rossnkaren | | Apathy has befallen us. Everything seems so difficult to do here so we haven't really done a lot. Bariloche is in the Argentinian lake district and has an idyllic location set on the banks of a lake s... |
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 | The Numbers
2009-04-19, Iguacu Falls, Argentina. By: frankieboy | | South America-The Numbers
1-How many times I thought I had dengue fever
1-How many times I took a header on a bike
1-How many times I thought I was going to die on the World’s Most Dangerous High... |
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 | Perito Moreno Glaciar
2009-04-08, Perito Moreno, Argentina. By: rossnkaren | | Back to Argentina, but still in Patagonia, we visited the Perito Moreno glacier via El Calafate, a very touristy town. Karen loved it because there were loads of shops selling craft items and she tri... |
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 | Puerto Deseado
2009-03-25, Puerto Deseado, Argentina. By: rossnkaren | | I wanted to see Penguins. Even though it meant a 27 hour bus ride and a connection the next day to a cold and breezy little town on the coast. And it was the end of the season for tourists so if there... |
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 | Buenos Aires
2009-03-18, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: rossnkaren | | Karen: First stop in BA was Recoleta Cemetery. The guide book said it's a must and to take your camera as there are a lot of photo ops. Well we thought, how tasteless – but we went along all the same!... |
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 | The happy hiker - and Latin American road trip #2
2009-03-17, El Chalten, Argentina. By: Fidgi | | Well, I decided to go for the ‘ruta 40’ option up to Bariloche in the end, having been urged on by yet more people in my hostel who assured me it was an unmissable South American experience. I discov... |
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 | Rainy Sunday in El Chalten...
2009-03-15, El Chalten, Argentina. By: Fidgi | | Hmm, today won’t go down as one of my top travelling days. In fact it’s been a bit rubbish. My alarm went off at 6.30am and, before catching my early morning shuttle-bus from El Calafate to El Chalt... |
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 | day 1
2009-03-19, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: brittany | | Ok well were here. We just arrived in the beautiful Buenos Aires. When we first arrived we dropped our bags off and went straight to the Caminito Street Museum. The museum was so beautiful. It had bri... |
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 | Esteros del Ibera
2009-03-17, Esteros del Ibera, Argentina. By: rossnkaren | | Karen wanted to go to this National Park to see caimans and capybaras and a host of other wildlife. The best way to get there from Puerto Iguazu is to go via Corrientes to Mercedes and then on to Col... |
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 | The (glacial) cherry on the cake...
2009-03-14, El Calafate, Argentina. By: fidgi | | I’m going to stick to the task in hand today and focus purely on describing another day of natural wonders at the ‘Parque Nacional Los Glaciares’. This is where I got right up next to the astonishing... |
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 | Puerto Iguacu
2009-03-12, Puerto Iguazu, Argentina. By: rossnkaren | | We got up early and jumped on the first bus that came along that said Argentina. We then had to jump off at the Brazilian border for our exit stamps, back on for the Argentine border and then off aga... |
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 | Waterfalls of wonder...
2009-03-07, Puerto Iguazu, Argentina. By: fidgi | | OK, that is an unashamedly naff title for an entry, but I don't really care as it's apt. The waterfalls at Iguacu (or ‘Iguazu’ if you’re on the Argentine side, as I now am) are, indeed, a wonder, an... |
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 | Heading South
2009-02-30, Ushuaia, Argentina. By: archstar17 | | Well we are leaving BA we have new boy George from Fullam on the truck and the party boys are already hitting the piss. By the way there was a roar as I walked on the trcuk with my cartoon of 36 beers... |
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 | Antarctica - part the first.
2008-12-15, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: valminx | | Its been a while since this thing was last updated, so apologies if you thought we’d died :o) as most of you know we returned from China in September - back to this depressing soap opera ridden, reali... |
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