south america - here i am!!!!
In and around South America
as all israelies - or at least most - after the milatery service and a long year working i found my self on the way to south america. not knowing if i'm ready or not but knowing that this is what i want - this is my time to travel the world.... so for all of you back home don't worry i'm alive and this is what i've been going thru....
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler jen manor
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i'm finally here!!!!
HOLA!
and wellcome to my journal...
first of all i must tell you all that i don't have much time - so i'm sorry if it will be a short s... Continue reading »
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on our way...
at 6:10 am, 18/01/2006, we boarded aplain to a place called comodoro rivadavia, it's a small town that geografecly looks like eilat - bug hilles fr... Continue reading »
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the rest of the way.....
as i promised here is the rest of my journy to el calafate...
in the morning - still on the bus - like i told you we felt like in first class... Continue reading »
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el calafate and fitz roy
well guys after a long 2 days ride i arrived in el calafate. it was late at night and finding the hostel took sometime, in the end we found out tha... Continue reading »
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puerto natales and torres del paine
so here i am writing you from puerto natales after the torres del paine. but first of all lets go back and tell you the story from the start.
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punta arenas
there is not much to tell about punta arenas - i've been there only 2 days. the day we arrived was just about making sure we have a bus to ushuaia... Continue reading »
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fin del mundo
they say that traveling in south america is all about goodbyes - well saying goodbye to ushuaia was the sadest moment in my travel so far....
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hitchhiking - this is what is is...
First of all - how did i find myself hitchiking? the answer is long but i'll make it short - neta and i left ushuaia to el calafate planing... Continue reading »
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our second day...
so on the second day we woke up on the beach at puerto gudal and another day of hitchiking started. after packing our stuff we went to the road a... Continue reading »
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will I ever see neta again?
again waking up in our tents - but at least we could dress in the bathroom and not in the tent. eating like every morning bread and dulce de leche f... Continue reading » -
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can we be more lucky?
so it's 21:00 - tom and i arrived to Coyhaique and there is no room at the hostel we ment to stay, until 22:00 we have to meet neta and the g... Continue reading »
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another glacier?
so we woke up very early hoping to catch a ride to our next destenation - park nacional qualet near puyuhuapi where there is a glacir called the ha... Continue reading »
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is this called food???
well we got to la junta and after a short hostel serch we found out that the first place we enterd was the cheepest and also looks really good, and... Continue reading »
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the end of the road...
well futaleufu is not on the cartera austral (ruta 7) but it is a border town which marks the end of hitchiking for most people, and the end o... Continue reading »
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food food and more food!!!!!
so after the taxi from the border to esquel and a bus from there to el bolson, and another taxi to lago puelo we finally arrived at 22:00 to our de... Continue reading »
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the city of steak, choclate and icecream!!!!
finally here i am - bariloche!!! the city that nobody can stop talking about - every person we met who came from there made it seam like the best plac... Continue reading » -
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7 lakes of argentina
so after a long week in bariloche, lots of planing, and finding partners for renting a car - we left bariloche: omer, meytal, neta and me. long before... Continue reading » -
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climbing a volcano.....
well we woke up at san martin, argentina, and our destenation for the day was pucon, chile, about 5 hours of driving and today was my turn.... i do... Continue reading »
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on our way to the pacific....
so we woke up at pucon and had some dilemas about how shall we continue, at that point i was tired from driving on unpaved roads and was worried th... Continue reading »
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finally out of chile!!!
well as i said before we planned to reach entre lagos in chile that day, but we arrived there way too early around 14:00 and to tell the truth we run... Continue reading » -
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back at bariloche...
so after an hour and a half drive from villa la angostura we are back at bariloche - the city of way too much food!!! and this time it felt like home.... Continue reading » -
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flying like a bird....
well after a long 20 hours ride we finally arrived at mendoza - a buetiful, relaxed city, the city which i was about to fall in love with.... after... Continue reading »
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so this is it???
well cordoba beigins in the best bus ride i ever had - we raelly the most strange ride i ever had!!! after we ran out of the all you can eat restor... Continue reading »
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buenos the second time around
well here i am again - buenos aires the biggining of all my south america. a circle has closed for me - the circle of argentina and chile, the circ... Continue reading »
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summer summer summer and the falls
ok - as i said before sinally on my way to brazil, never in my life i imagind to find my self staying 5 days so close to brazil and still not in it... Continue reading »
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passover....
well finally in brazil!!!!! after a really long night ride from fuz iguazu in brazil to florianopolis, which had in it being stopped by the police,... Continue reading »
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the train to ilha do mel
so we took our bags and got on a bus to curitiba - planing to get there in order to take the bus to ilha do mel. coming at 6 or 7 at night, it´s al... Continue reading »
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the islnad of honey
ilha do mel - translated to island of honey. to tell the truth i don´t know why it is called that way, havn´t tried to find out.... after a 2 hours... Continue reading »
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passing thru again
so again we find ourselfs in curitiba - but this time there is no real reason for us being there except that in order to get anywhere from ilha do... Continue reading »
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the ice age.....
well sao paulo, what is there to say about this city? not much at all, it is a big city and that is all i can say of it....
we arrived to a n... Continue reading »
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pizza!!!!!!
paraty is a small town the has so much history to it - you walk on roads from the 16th century - it has that kind of air to it.... we came later th... Continue reading »
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sunrises.....
after a bit of losing our selfs in parati, we got to the bus station there we met two of the guys from sao paulo - ran and ido. with them we take t... Continue reading »
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on our way...
so finally after a week we felt it´s time to move on and left trinidade going to out next location - ihla grande, to get there we must pass again t... Continue reading »
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the big island
after the bus drive from parati to anegra dos ries, where we found out we missed the last fairy to the island and now we had to take a privte boat... Continue reading »
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seing jesus....
rio de janeiro - finally i arrived, almost a month after entering brazil, after planing to be in brazil for not more then 3 weeks, i arr... Continue reading »
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getting tanned!!!!
buzios - a small paninsula of 4 small towns that was found by bridget bardu and became a vaction location for the rich. right now i am still in it... Continue reading »
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the beginig of traveling alone....
well first of all i must apologize - i havn`t written in such a long time that most of what happend i can´t remember now.... but i will try to do t... Continue reading »
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where is the beach????
well after the flight, miki, miri and i reached the airport in fortaleza at 4 am, the bus to jericoacoara leaves only at 10 am - we had 6 hours to... Continue reading »
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now i am alone.....
well my bus from jericoacoara was late by an half and hour, actually it was the truck part of the ride. the day was a rainy day and i found my self si... Continue reading » -
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another night in a bus station.....
so after a really nice bus ride i arrived at 1 am in brazilia, i wanted to go and sleep in an hostel but found out it was to exspencive for me (i had... Continue reading » -
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catching the train....
well after a six hours bus ride (the shortest i had till now...) that included a car accident - the driver bumped into a tender car, no one got hurt,... Continue reading » -
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moving on to bolivia....
so after a way too long 23 hours bus ride i reached campo grande at 7 am local time, luckly for me it is easy to see i am an israelien - all the local... Continue reading » -
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europian town - are you crazy????
so i arrived at 4 am to santa cruz after a wired bus ride which i don´t know if i enjoyed or hated... i think i liked - it still was a nice time wi... Continue reading »
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water falls.....
so after running away from the ugly santa cruz at 20:30 i found my self in samaipata - and as i walked in the town and gotten to the plaza there wa... Continue reading »
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back on track....
while waiting forthe bus from samaipata to sucre i met 2 really nice americans going on the same way like me - omar and michel. together we go on t... Continue reading »
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killing lamas....
well after a long time in sucre it was time to move on - ori and i took a short (only 4 hours) bus from sucre to potosi - the highst city in bolivi... Continue reading »
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el salar...
so after seeing a lama being sacrafised it was time to move on to one of the most amaizing places on earth - the salt desert of uyuni....
i l... Continue reading »
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la paz la paz la paz
well first of all i must say i am sorry i havn't updated this journal in the last 2 months, and this means that most of the things i have done i pr... Continue reading »
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oasis....
well after 5 days of doing absalotly nothing in la paz it was time to freshen up on my treking, so where alse than the treking capital of bolivia?... Continue reading »
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back again....
so back again!!! nothing much happened this time also but days went by and i found my self again doing nothing at all.... so when it become to much i... Continue reading » -
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jungals, pampas and mosquitos
well i got on a plain from la paz to the amaizing rurrenabaque.... after the coldness of the mountains going down to the jungals was so hot i felt... Continue reading »
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the last time....
well from the hot summer of rurre back to the cold and high la paz, hoping to meet ronit there and go on the 3 day choro trek, but reaching la paz i f... Continue reading »
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