I'm in Europe! Wait, no I'm not! I'm in Bariloche, in the lake district somewhere in Northern Patagonia, Argentina. The trip is rapidly coming to a close, in fact I have less than a week before I'm on a plane back to Australia. Five days to be more precise. Tomorrow I head to Iguazu and …
Month: November 2016
Bookshops, Perons, Palaces and Buenos Aires
Back for a second helping of Buenos Aires antics, here I am again. For a second blog that is, not for a second visit, it's all been in the one week here. Actually really the first place of note my wife and I visited in Buenos Aires was the El Ateneo bookshop. In a world …
Continue reading Bookshops, Perons, Palaces and Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires – Where the Heck to I Start?
Howdy all. Still going strong with less than two weeks left on this adventure. I made a few changes to my itinerary from this point on. I won't go all the way down to El Calafate. Instead tomorrow I overnight to Bariloche and then fly to Iguazu waterfalls next week. Can't do everything and two …
Salta, First Taste of Argentina
Hi all. Well, today I leave Salta on an overnight bus to the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires. I've been enjoying a few relaxing days here, I've gone out and seen a bit but really just relaxed in a nice city, very different from any I visited earlier in South America. I've had a …
Salar de Uyuni
Howdy all from Bolivia for the last time. This trip at least. I've just returned to Uyuni after a three-day trip to the Salar De Uyuni, so I'm going to try and give you a brief run down of how it went. In Uyuni there are loads of operators offering trips to the salt plains. …
Sweet Sucre
Howdy all. My last night here in Sucre, southern-ish part of Bolivia. I've stayed three nights and would you believe this is my first three night stay since my first stay in Quito. It's been crazy and tiring and rewarding as well. Sucre is the nicest city I've been to in Bolivia. Well, I've only …
Potosi and Mine Tour with Big Deal Tours
Potosi is not a bad place really, surrounded by stunning, rocky mountains with a nice centre of town (I've found this is common in every South American city/town I've visited) but Potosi's fame comes from the minerals and metals found inside the surounding hills, that brought and still brings wealth to the people. The …
At the (other) Copacabana. And the Isla Del Sol
No, I'm not in Brazil. Yet. I'm here in the delightful little town of Copacabana on the shores of Lake Titicaca, in Bolivia around 8-10 km from the Peruvian border. I've had three days of sunshine, and a great chance to relax a little. Why, today I even slept in! There's not an awful lot …
Continue reading At the (other) Copacabana. And the Isla Del Sol
Cusco and the Last Days in Peru
Did I call my last Ecuador blog something similar? Anyways, a few hours ago I passed the border into Bolivia and am now in my third country of this South American adventure. I'm in Copacabana - not the one of Brazillian fame rather the one on Lake Titicaca just over the border into Bolivia from …
Andy's World Journeys 