Author: Felicity @ Metrix
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La Paz and the Death Road
Another crazy bus ride to add to the list. This time it was an overnight bus from Uyuni to La Paz the capital. This was a 9 hour overnight bus ride and from what we could tell in our half asleep, half awake state, was that the road was dirt, bumpy, and when corners arrived…
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4WD trip from San Pedro to the Bolivian Salt Flats in Uyuni
From San Pedro we headed into Bolivia. We decided to take a 3 day tour across the altiplano in Bolivia. We were quite nervous about this trip as we could find only bad reviews. We searched the internet for good reviews but the harder we looked the more dodgy it seemed. We read stories of…
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North Chile, San Pedro de Atacama – the desert!
Our bus left Salta at 1am and headed over the mountains to the Chilean/Argentinian border. There were only about 6 of us on this massive double decker bus and we had a seat at the top with windows in front of us. At 4am the full moon woke me up and I looked out to…
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Salta & Surrounding Areas in Argentina
Next stop was a short 1 hour plane trip from Puerto Igazu to Salta in Argentina. Salta was going to be our base to check out Jujuy (Hoohoi) to the North with the colourful hills and Cafayate, a high altitude wine region to the South. Our first day in Salta we visited the Museum of…
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Igazu Falls! – First Brazil, then Argentina
To add to our South America bus experiences we took a bus from Campinas, Sao Paulo to Foz de Igazu, the home of the Brazillian side of the Igazu falls!! The bus was an overnight bus that would take 17 hours, we figured by this stage we’d done so many and had slept on them,…
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English Convention at Campinas – Sao Paulo
We headed to Sao Paulo to catch the worldwide District Convention in English! We stayed in Campinas, Sao Paulo which was a bit of an ugly city! We didn’t really venture out too much but it was nice to have a rest in our “budget” but seemingly fancy hotel the “Ibis” (said with a Briiiighton…
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Rio de Janeiro – We enter Brazil!
“When my baby! When baby smiles at me I go to Rio… de Janeiro”. So that’s the song I had in my head the whole time were in Rio de Janeiro!!! We initially were only going to go into Brazil for the English District Convention in Sao Paulo, but how could you go to Brazil…
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Montevideo, Uruguay
A 2.5/3 hour bus ride took us from Colonia to Montevideo… The bus had.. what for it… free WIFI!! WIFI has been available at all the restaurants and many public places in Argentina, so Uruguay just went a step up putting it on their buses! 🙂 We jumped on a public bus to get to…
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New country: Uruguay, City: Colonia
From Buenos Aires we left Argentina and headed to Colonia Uruguay! The trip across the water only took an hour and we were there. We arrived at night so didn’t see how cute the place was until the next morning. We went for a walk in the old part of town which was a fort…
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The big city, Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is a massive city set out in a nice grid structure like Melbourne making it very easy to walk around! There are old European buildings everywhere and you can just stroll around street to street, as long as you look up you’ll see some awesome sites! Beautiful buildings, cool open, long and narrow…