Month: September 2008
Buenos Aries
We have spent the last three days in Buenos Aries in Argentina at the conclusion of our trip. The city’s name in English translates into ‘Good Air’ and it is indeed a good and comfortable pace to visit. I have decided that I like this city. I thought this on my first`tri8p to here and […]
Read MoreShe’s Not the Girl from Ipanema
I saw Rob’s comment that the best view in Rio would be the girls on the beach. Unfortunately, we were there on two cool and cloudy days. I took this picture of the only woman I saw on the beach in a bikini. She’s not tall, she’s not young, and she’s not lovely – but […]
Read MoreDrenched at Iguazu Falls
We arrived at Iguazu on Tuesday after a two hour flight from Rio. Iguazu is approximately half way between Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aries and s at a point on the Iguazu River on the Border of Brazil and Argentina. The falls are one- of the top ten natural wonders of the world. Although […]
Read MoreRio de Janeiro
We arrived in Rio on Saturday night after a long flight for a visit to this exciting and romantic city. Unfortunately, we hit a patch of cool rainy weather,so a lot of our expectations were not fulfilled to the degree we might have expected.The weather kept most people off the beach, so the Girl from […]
Read MoreSugarloaf – Rio
Here’s the view from wwhere I am standing at the top of Sugarloaf, Copacobana Beach is to the left.
Read MoreRepositioning to Brazil
To get to our next `major destination, Rio de Janeiro, we have to fly back to Santiago in Chile. We flew out of La Paz yesterday morning, fromm the `highest commercial airport in the world. La Paz Airport is a combined military and civil airport and is at a height of 4,300 metres (14,107 feet). […]
Read MoreLa Paz
We arrived late into La Paz after our all day trip from Puno. We only took a –couple- of photos of Puno as the town is basically a collection of little square brick buildings on the hillside around the lake. Things are really inexpensive in Bolivia with about six Boliviaros to the Australian Dollar. We […]
Read MoreOur Journey to Bolivia
On Thursday, our trio continued as we travelled around Lake Titikaka by bus and, after 90-minutes, we crossed the border from Peru into Bolivia near the town of Copacobana. (Not the Brazilian city by th same name, where you could expect to find Barry Manilow). At the border, we all had to get out of […]
Read MoreVisiting Venizio the Farmer
On the way back from, visiting the Chulpas, we stopped to visit the house of a man named Venizio who has a farm near Sullustani. This gave us an excellent insight into the life of the local people who scratch out a living on the Alto Planos (high plain). The farm houses here are constructed […]
Read MoreInca Burial Towers
After our visit to he floating islands, a few of us took an optional tour to Sillustani, about 40 kilometres to the west of La Paz. Here there are a number of Inca Relics dating back to the 1400’s. These burial towers, or Chulpas, were used for burying the Inca noble class. When an important […]
Read MoreFloating Islands
Lake Titikaka is the highest navigable fresh water lake in the world at 3,800 metres. It covers approximately 8,300 square kilometres and is up to 280 metres deep. Sixty percent of the area is in Peru and the remainder belongs to Bolivia, who maintains perhaps the worlds smallest navy on the lake. One of the […]
Read MoreCusco to Puno
Sorry for having not posted for a few days. We have had a series of long and interesting days and just haven’t had any time for writing. I’ll try make up for it with a series of short posts The first half of our free day in Cusco was spent waiting for a doctor to […]
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