The Last Few Days - Details Will Follow - Buenos Aires
We are in Buenos Aires, an amazing city !!! This is almost the end of our wonderful trip, with just an evening in Bogota to go before we leave South America on the 3rd November. Below is a summary of the days that followed since our last update in Puno (Peru). Details & photographs will follow.
BOLIVIA
Copocabana - 17th to 19th September - beautiful small town on the lake Titicaca
La Paz - 19th to 22nd September - Great capital city with an Andean feel
Potosi - 23rd to 24th September - Cold !!!!! Silver colonial city, once the greatest silver city in the world.
Uyuni - 25th September - stopover town to begin trips across the salt lake
Salar Uyuni - 26th September - 4X4 drive across miles & miles of flat featureless salt flats with Tim & Silvia (from Germany)
Volcanoes & Wetlands - 27th September - day 2 of our further drive, south of the salt flats
Lago Colorado - 28th September - Day 3 of our 4x4 drive, down south of Bolivia, into the north Atacama desert of Chile
CHILE
San Pedro de Atacama - 28th to 29th September - Great desert town ruined by tourists. Rossini was desparate to get out.
Antofagasta - 29th Sept to 1st October - a busy port city but a "normal" one after San Pedro.
La Serena - 2nd to 3rd October - Chilean seaside resort. Stayed with a very warm family. Landscape still a bit sparse.
Valparaiso - 4th to 6th October - Almost like being in Lisbon. Brilliant, beautiful city by the ocean, full of character & warmth.
Santiago - 6th to 10th October - a capital city that was so easy to get around in. Letay's favourite capital city - even went to the ballet.
Pucon - 11th - 12th October - town at the base of an active volcano. Cloudy & cold. Great thermal baths.
Valdivia - 12th to 14th October - University town on the west coast that could be somewhere in Germany. Fantastic seafood
Puerto Varas - 14th to 16th October - like being in Switzerland with the town on the lakes and two volcanoes (??) Stayed at a hostal run by a frenchman - Nicholas (Great !!!)
Puerto Montt - 16th October - here just for the day to catch the cargo ferry through the fjords & channels of southern Chile
Navimag Ferry - 16th October to 19th October - almost 4 days on the ferry thru amazing glacial landscapes to Southern Chile.
Puerto Natales - 19th to 21st October - Base town to visit the National Park at Chile's Southern end
Park Torres del Paine - 20th October - Brilliant !!!! on Deepa's birthday - glaciers too.
ARGENTINA
El Calafate - 21st to 23rd October - Base to visit the Glaciers around. Quaint town.
Perito Moreno Glacier - 22nd October - one of the most magnificent sights of this holiday and of this planet.
Puerto Madryn - 24th October - Bus across Patagonia. Base to see whales & sea life. Arranged car etc.
Puerto Piramides - 25th October - close to whales - absolutely unreal.
Bus Across the Pampas - 26th October - Bus across the pampas to Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires - 27th October to 2nd November - Amazing city filled with Tango....even got a football game in.
BOLIVIA
Copocabana - 17th to 19th September - beautiful small town on the lake Titicaca
La Paz - 19th to 22nd September - Great capital city with an Andean feel
Potosi - 23rd to 24th September - Cold !!!!! Silver colonial city, once the greatest silver city in the world.
Uyuni - 25th September - stopover town to begin trips across the salt lake
Salar Uyuni - 26th September - 4X4 drive across miles & miles of flat featureless salt flats with Tim & Silvia (from Germany)
Volcanoes & Wetlands - 27th September - day 2 of our further drive, south of the salt flats
Lago Colorado - 28th September - Day 3 of our 4x4 drive, down south of Bolivia, into the north Atacama desert of Chile
CHILE
San Pedro de Atacama - 28th to 29th September - Great desert town ruined by tourists. Rossini was desparate to get out.
Antofagasta - 29th Sept to 1st October - a busy port city but a "normal" one after San Pedro.
La Serena - 2nd to 3rd October - Chilean seaside resort. Stayed with a very warm family. Landscape still a bit sparse.
Valparaiso - 4th to 6th October - Almost like being in Lisbon. Brilliant, beautiful city by the ocean, full of character & warmth.
Santiago - 6th to 10th October - a capital city that was so easy to get around in. Letay's favourite capital city - even went to the ballet.
Pucon - 11th - 12th October - town at the base of an active volcano. Cloudy & cold. Great thermal baths.
Valdivia - 12th to 14th October - University town on the west coast that could be somewhere in Germany. Fantastic seafood
Puerto Varas - 14th to 16th October - like being in Switzerland with the town on the lakes and two volcanoes (??) Stayed at a hostal run by a frenchman - Nicholas (Great !!!)
Puerto Montt - 16th October - here just for the day to catch the cargo ferry through the fjords & channels of southern Chile
Navimag Ferry - 16th October to 19th October - almost 4 days on the ferry thru amazing glacial landscapes to Southern Chile.
Puerto Natales - 19th to 21st October - Base town to visit the National Park at Chile's Southern end
Park Torres del Paine - 20th October - Brilliant !!!! on Deepa's birthday - glaciers too.
ARGENTINA
El Calafate - 21st to 23rd October - Base to visit the Glaciers around. Quaint town.
Perito Moreno Glacier - 22nd October - one of the most magnificent sights of this holiday and of this planet.
Puerto Madryn - 24th October - Bus across Patagonia. Base to see whales & sea life. Arranged car etc.
Puerto Piramides - 25th October - close to whales - absolutely unreal.
Bus Across the Pampas - 26th October - Bus across the pampas to Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires - 27th October to 2nd November - Amazing city filled with Tango....even got a football game in.
posted by Silveira Family of Three (+1) at 1:47 am
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I feel dizzy with all this travelling!
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