Category: South America
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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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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…
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Bariloche and the end of our snow trip (for now)
Friends of friends of my sister and mum and dad… That’s how we explain meeting up with a lovely sister and her step-daughter in Bariloche Patricia and Ariana (not sure how to spell her name and I did have trouble rolling my r’s so probably never said it right!) took us to a Mexican restraurant…
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Villa La Angostura
Sunday was another rainy day but we’d had enough relaxing so we bought 2 tiny umbrellas that wouldn’t hold up in the wind and went for a walk down to the bay area where there are some lookouts. About 1km down the road a German Shepherd cross (not sure what) came running down a very…
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Cerro Bayo = Blue Bird Day and Powder!
The mountain in Villa La Angostura has the most beautiful view we’ve seen at a ski hill! We caught an old bus up to the ski hill which took about 15-20 minutes from town. The best way to describe being in this bus from the 1950s, going up a dirty, bumpy track is to imagine…
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Beware the Argentina bus luggage boys
We took a bus from Esquel to Villa La Angostura on Thursday morning. The lakes district here in Argentina is beautiful and taking our breath away! The scenery from Esquel to Bariloche to Villa La Angostura was just gorgeous. Bright blue clear lakes, green pine trees and snow capped mountains. Gorgeous!! We’ve decided that taking…