Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires has it all...

you find there nicely renovated river banks that reminds you of London's South bank, Paris like large busy avenues, cosy old neighbourhoods typical of Lisbon and Porto, stylish old buildings, shops and bars of Barcelona and Italian towns and hundreds of bookshops you can't find anywhere else!

All in all it's a busy, vibrant and huge capital. After a week I had enough of it and crossed the river to Uruguay.
Here some captured impressions...

Mendosa

Mendosa was all about wine and Aconcagua, the highest pick on the America's continent. So I did a wine tasting cycling tour across wineries and cellars, caught up with Aconcagua professional guides along a parilla (Arentinian barbeque) and spent a night in picturesque Ponte del Incas, the village at the front door of Aconcagua.

Here some photos...

Salta

In the far North of Argentina, in the region of Salta and Jujuy, the landscape offers infinite colors and shapes. I had been lucky to run into Patrick, an Irish guy, which whom I rented a car and explored the two regions. We drove for four days, 1400 km, across spectacular and breathtaking landscapes on dirt and curved roads, up to a 4200 m high, passing by small villages, salaries, rock formations... A breathtaking epic journey! 

Better you check the photos and judge by yourself...

Brazil

Finally!

Finally, here on the Argentinian side of the Igazu Falls I`ve managed to download some pictures I took so far in Brazil. Hopefully, they can give you a taste of what I was doing so far...

I landed in Rio on 20 September and spent a couple of days there just to overcome the jet lag and to adapt to the idea of being on holidays... I continued to rest and chill out on Ilha Grande, Paraty and Trinidade (all places with nice beaches), before I turned inland to remote wetland of Pantanal, home of on incredible amount of caymans, piranhas, birds... and especially mosquitoes! On my way to Iguazu, I made a stopover in Bonito to swim in a magic clear river full of big, but really big fish!

So far so good! Nice and lazy, but now, crossing Argentinian border, I expect the real traveling to start... First, I plan to head North to Salta and then slowly descend South toward Patagonia. Of course, stopping in Buenos Aires and Montevideo on the way. Will keep you posted.

Click here for photos (hopefully will work)

Greetings from the Iguazu falls, Branka

Rio

Rio is my fist destination! I am happy to be back :)

Just to get some taste of it, here are some photos I took last year.

Today is the fist day of my holidays

I've bought my flight ticket. I have it in my hands. I can't belive I realy did it. My ticket reads:

19.8.2008: London - Rio
29.1.2009: Santiago de Chile - Aucland (NZ)
12.2. 2009: Aucland - Nadi (Fiji)
18.2.2009: Nadi - Sydney
4.3.2009: Sydney - Singapore
20.6.2009: Bangkok - London

It's a nice flight ticket, isn't it? :))

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