South America
Rio de Janeiro – At The Copa… Copacabana
Rio is a city that, like Venice, sets one with lofty expectations, yet somehow manages to meet or even exceed them. It is also like Venice in that is heavily laden with tourists, rather expensive (particularly coming from Paraguay), and is so full of astonishing views that virtually any direction Read more…
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Playa Laguna Blanca
(Playa Pics here) With a three day weekend one of my wife’s co-workers helped book a trip to Playa Blanco, a cool camp-out/lodging beach on a river? lake? on the eastern side of the country. 26 of us set out in all, a caravan of six vehicles, packed to the Read more…
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Mendoza – A Malbec-Enhanced Abbreviated Trip
Our trip to Mendoza, given the national strike and the chaos that subsequently rained down on it, was, like some Malbecs, bittersweet. The trip, originally slated for nearly four full days, was to include biking about town and the massive, sprawling park nearby to us, a white water rafting trek, Read more…
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Buenos Aires, Too – The Stranding
We had planned to spend Easter Week/Fall Break in Mendoza, ended up booking two nights in Buenos Aires as, well, we loved the city and there were no reasonably priced flights available from Asuncion to Mendoza without a 17 hour layover in BA anyways. So the gameplan was Saturday night Read more…
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Santiago. With some Viña del Mar and Valparaiso, too.
(Gallery of pisco… err, pics here.) Rio is Rio. Buenos Aires is referred to as the Paris of South America. I’ve seen Santiago, Chile, referred to as the Tokyo of South America. Ok. But, still, that long, skinny country has always seemed a magical place to me, from the Andes Read more…