Puerto Iguazu – Buenos Aires, Argentina I was gonna go back to Iguazu Falls park again today but Celeste and three of our dorm mates went out partying till morning. I was gonna join but slept through the night like a log. The weather was […]
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Day 224: Bucket Load of Water
Puerto Iguazu, Argentina I arrived in Puerto Iguazu town at 9:30 in the morning and got into my hostel soon after. I couldn’t check in into my dorm room until 2 in the afternoon so I was forced to use the hostel bar’s restroom to […]
Day 223: The Butterfly Effect
Buenos Aires – Puerto Iguazu, Chile A few entries ago, I talked about travel hacking the Argentinian domestic flights. I was so tempted to give it a go for my trip to and fro Buenos Aires – Puerto Iguazu. Taking the 18 hour bus ride […]
Day 222: Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts
Buenos Aires, Argentina Recoleta Cemetery is a city of the dead. But if it’s any consolation for the dead here, at least they will never ever be lonely or be forgotten. The good sum of money that they had paid to secure their resting spots […]
Day 221: Everybody Hates Tourists
Buenos Aires, Argentina I woke up from a surprisingly dreamless sleep in Paula’s teenage daughter, Malen’s room. I thought with all the posters of Justin Bieber, I would either have a super sweet dream or a nightmare. After breakfast, I did the morning free walking […]
Day 220: Pedro’s Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina I had heard from other travellers that Buenos Aires got good free walking tours like the ones in European cities. I told Pedro that my plan for the day was to join the tours. Pedro went “Oh, you went to the website? […]
Day 219: Mi Casa Es Tu Casa
El Calafate – Buenos Aires, Argentina I’ve been busing it around South America in general but I’ve been told by numerous people that I should fly from the south of Argentina to the capital, Buenos Aires. After contemplating this issue for a while, I did […]
Day 218: Ice Ice Baby
El Calafate – Perito Moreno – El Calafate, Argentina A couple of days ago, I’d never heard of the word “crampons.” But today I found out that cramponing is a lot of fun! Honestly, I was dreading the glacier trekking excursion a bit. I was […]
Day 217: Sounds from Nowheresville
El Calafate, Argentina El Calafate has one main street and it’s very commercialized. Prices are high in town. Everything is geared towards tourism. I was asking around town regarding pricing to go visit the Perito Moreno glacier. Turned out that there’s only one price since […]
Day 216: Ushuaia vs. El Calafate
Puerto Natales, Chile – El Calafate, Argentina Woooohoooooo, Argentina! 20th country! For the past few weeks, I had been struggling to decide whether to go to Ushuaia or El Calafate after finishing up in Puerto Natales. Ushuaia claims to be El fin de mundo (The […]
Day 215: Reaching for the Towers
Torres del Paine – Puerto Natales, Chile My not having enough time to do the full Torres del Paine trek was indeed a blessing in disguise. Had I attempted the feat, I would have probably died halfway. I only did the first part of the […]
Day 226: Follow the Cow
Buenos Aires, Argentina Argentina is famous for its meat BBQ “Parilla” and I had yet to properly try it. Joe, my Argentinian dorm mate in Cusco, invited me to go to a dinner buffet. We met up in this restaurant called “Siga La Vaca.” It […]