A feeble attempt at capturing the enormity of the Iguazu Falls This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through [more...]
Buenos Aires (16/5/07 – 19/5/07) I arrived in Buenos Aires by boat from Montevideo… I immediately took the subway to the centre of town and started knocking on [more...]
Montevideo (14/5/07 – 15/5/07) After Rio, all my “planned” destinations were in much colder locations… so I sent some stuff home. Mostly summer stuff, [more...]
Asuncion Do you like apples? Well… I’m going to one, a big one! How do you like them apples? Fine print: After a long and nail-biting wait, I have been admitted [more...]
Foz do Iguaçu (4/5/07 – 5/5/07) The Iguazu falls are South America’s mightiest. Mightiest? You might say… I did. In a land which already boasts such [more...]
Our car at the hot springs This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first half of [more...]
I’m seriously thinking about getting myself a digital SLR camera. Why? After seeing all the sights I’ve seen and looking over all the photos I’ve taken of [more...]
Asuncion (1/5/07 – 3/5/07) Paraguay was never intended as a long stopover. In fact, there were only two things on my list for Paraguay – the Chaco, the sparsely [more...]
Trekking through Peruvian highlands This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first [more...]
Copacabana (20/4/07 – 22/4/07) Bolivia is a place I have only previously known through reading about its dire hyperinflation in the chapter “Bolivia’s high [more...]
Lima (5/4/07 – 8/4/07) The wealthy and affluent capital of Peru and once the capital of Spanish South America (all of South America except Brazil). A very large [more...]
Quito (2/4/07 – 5/4/07) Quito is one of the few places in the world where the pilot actually has to *decompress* the cabin prior to landing. Most of the time, the plane [more...]
Hey everyone, I thought I’d give everyone a break from my atrocious travel writing… “toot toot! the whistle blows for half time, and the train waiting to [more...]
Los Angeles (13/3/07 – 15/3/07) This was a bit of a let down. Santa Monica beach at about 10am. I think the weather might have had something to do with it. The bus [more...]
Overlooking Canaima Lagoon This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first half of [more...]