Sunday, March 30, 2008

Shooting Pain Down The Neck

Cochabamba Potosi '

Potosi '(4100mt) and' a city 'incredible. Can be reached from Uyuni through incredible scenery as usual and with my heart in my throat, because half the proximity of the edge of precipices. Thousands of red houses climbing up the mountain, in the Cerro Rico, which is called so 'not by chance. for the Incas was a mountain Sacred, then the Spaniards we found the silver and goodbye, in 300 years it is estimated that 8 million between Indians and African slaves in the silver mines. It is said that the silver could be extracted to make a bridge from Bolivia to Madrid and two bridges with the corpses of the poor slaves. In this way qulche City 'has been the world economy has sustained for several centuries: the English silver mined there, English and Dutch robbed the English and Portuguese galleons were selling African slaves to the Spaniards. All content, except Indians and Africans ... Same Old Story, noo? The city 'I really like, colonial style, very colorful and lively and does not so' cool to be at 4100 meters. In the Anglo-Saxon troops, which falls apart tomorrow, it and 'added a "lieutenant of the Israeli army" (here and' full), of 23 years, Sharon, and his other fellow Jagay! Tomorrow I go to visit the mines and then leave for Sucre. Baciozzi

Friday, March 28, 2008

How To Make A Bicycle Pedal Go Kart

Bolivia!! From Tupiza to Uyuni

The other night I saw the most beautiful star of my life. I was in front of the Laguna Colorada, a lagoon, obviously in a plateau at 4500 meters. This, a dry climate, combined with the fact that there are no city 'for hundreds of miles, he makes here is one of the best places to see the stars. They seem so 'neighbors who think they can grab, ¡so bright that seem to move like flames of candles hanging from invisible strings. The Milky Way and 'literally white, very bright.

Vabbuo are arrived in Tupiza last Saturday, taking the train on the fly, a seller of coca leaves has changed me 100 Argentine pesos. Bolivia and 'really different world, smells, people houses. Monday 'morning I left for a tour of 5 days in Tupiza Salar de Uyuni, the crew 4X4: Linda Cocinera (super), the driver Jose, Pete & Guy from Brighton (UK) and William (Dublin). A good crew, are the only one who speaks English (except for the natives), and so 'continuing my English course. What about 5 days between the highlands between 4000 and 5000 meters, which seem to Mongolia, Montegna a beauty that I can not describe, geysers, lagoons with pink flamingos, volcanoes, Reserva de Fauna Andina Avaroa and proud, incredible Salar de Uyuni. Out of the 'civilization', no telephone, no internet, nothing ... and showers, sleep in remote villages in the middle of nowhere. It 'been a real adventure. The second day the car had a fault in the elettrioco and will not start ', we had to push for 2 km until a truckload of workers did not have dragged S Antonio de Lipes a village of five hundred and one hundred and eighty souls blade. We had to wait until the next morning, 'cause another car arrived. This gave us a chance 'to live the life of an Andean village for a day. I took two steps and found the school, oh, a room for 4 to 7 meters, there 's just the teacher, I work here and explains that' hard ... 16 students, all of different ages 'and many children in the (beautiful) mountains around here who do not go to school because' should look after the cattle. Then I took the opportunity to make mends with the women of the country, with the classic Vestino chola (ie 'the bowler braids black skirt and shawl with child incorporato9 take me to the seat, even if they speak Quechua seems obvious. And then there are children, they laugh and then run away, I look like a Martian. Guy says that this place '"Nothing" but for me it' s a lot. Let us return to the tour ... I really do not find the words I had often the feeling of not having seen anything more 'beautiful in my life. Certainly the Argentine and' a wonderful place for those who love nature and shows that proposes But Bolivia, as seen so far, and 'a true paradise. A hug

Saturday, March 22, 2008

#1200 Beautiful Agony

North

Cordoba and 'already a memory, a good aftertaste. A thought vagande among its crowded streets. A beautiful city 'Cordoba, authentic, but most are nice people that I find: Finnish Helena, working for an FAO project in Nicaragua, Karl, from Leicester, the policeman backpackers, Josep, Catalan, and that' in South America in October and me a lot of tips for Peru '. And then Alexander and Darius, two brothers from Baires who are here in the car, go to the border with Bolivia and ask me if I want a ride. And noo!

Going up to the north begin to crowd the landscape, the green to bright, intense and then you just look at people's faces, eyes, skin color, noses, and Bolivia to understand that the 'most powerful' vicna. Viaggione six days, but obviously, it's worth it! Step in Tucuman, where the hostel is the only "foreigner" and others tuttigli Baires take me for a ride, call me TANO (as they call here, the Italians). Then you go to Salta, the city 'more' beautiful in Argentina, surrounded by emerald green hills, with its colonial buildings, churches and then colored his music nightlife. From partying to jump pass to Cachi, a small town, very nice that we get to eat dust for half a day, but it's worth it, stunning scenery, really I do not remember a more beautiful road, and then ... ... the condor passes 30 feet over your head ...

Friday, March 14, 2008

Belkin F5d07050 Driver

Mendoza

Another guided tour, but on the other hand, if you do not have coche and want to see something, there are other solutions. I have to say, among other things, that the guide and 'very clever and knows. Parada's Puente de los Incas, before Aconcagua (the summit of the Americas, 6970 m) and then the minibus on a road that climbs improbaile Ceristo that brings us to the Redeemer, a monument to peace between Chile and Argentina at 4000 m height, but more 'what else from an observatory on the thrills of the 6000 Argentine Cordillera Chileno! We speak of Mendoza, a city may well be 'Italian, really, I appreciate especially in cities', which looks like this country to our terribly, the same problems, the same people, the same incompetent politicians! my hostal and 'a frenzy of Yankees who are all day and all night in the pool to drink Budweiser!
In my room we are in 14, but the incredible thing, and 'I never see anyone like I have a different time zone from the others ... well, like Bolivia, for something different, I could go directly to Tucuman, but I'll leave 'astray from Cordoba (sorry but this name still engenders in me a thrill), all the people tell me to go there, even Christmas, which is' of Baires and' me mistaken for an Argentine (they are too proud!). Vamos a Ver


PS x Gigio ANDY: around Cordoba, in the evening do you recommend, long pants?

Thursday, March 13, 2008

How Fast Is A 9hp Engine

Volcanoes and volcanoes

Bus between Malargue Mnedoza y, 6 hours and a fart compared to the last trip. All '"Autogrill" the salami sciura suffering right now. Yesterday, all day at Payún Provincial Park, about 400 km off-road, seven, eta 'media 65. The park is' something exceptional (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserva_Provincial_La_Payunia), a concentration of volcanic cones unique. Italian association, Ardito Desio, discovered the lava thrown more 'longest in the world, 180 km (second and' 80), even NASA is investigating this incident. The thing that most 'impresses me are the colors, but mostly the contrasts between them. Whole black mountains, covered with bushes here and literally burned by the sun, deep yellow color. And on this black yellow expanse, which then becomes the only black check Murad, exemplary conical shape, of intense red copper. I do not understand how this park is not among the main attractions of Argentina, in its diversity 'has nothing to envy to the Perito Moreno or Parque Glaciares, but actually' I'm happy at least here there are hordes of tourists or lonelyplannati routard such as myself. In a few years I fear that the black slopes of Payún will be invaded by off-road machines to the eager search for digtal guanacos and rheas'.
Back to Malargue, dead tired, I chat with a girl Vermont and the French scientist, the only other two guests Hostal New Patagonia. A hostel in Malargue, or are you or go to the internet cafe ', there are other possibilities'. Fancy a bit of revelry, in Mendoza there will be 'the occasion. Write!

Monday, March 10, 2008

Nioxin Tea Tree Shampoo

Maldida Malargue

Malargue, again, the weather has canceled the trip to the lagoon here and there 'a host to be done. I get up later I have breakfast with two Argentines and a French scientist who tells me that there is a stone's throw 'an astrophysical observatory, guided tour at 17. Bighelli, go to the barber, a real barber.