september 8, 2009
border crossing at night
maart 9, 2009
<p>8-12 februari Huaraz<br />
Chavin de Huantar,<br />
Chavin de Huantar, main temple
4 day trek, Santa Cruz trek, start in the tiny rural setting of Yanama, unfortunatelly it rained most of these days, and the snow peaked mountains were mostly not visible because of the clouds.</p> (meer…)
maart 3, 2009
border passing close to Lago Titicaca:
border passing Bolivia to Peru
14 – 19 January Arequipa
14th arriving in Arequipa in the evening (20h), evening walk and already a first demonstration on the marvelous Plaza de Armas, students supporting the Palestinians, bear in mind it is summer holiday for the students, but they still managed to put together a rather nice action, including comic actor and burning of the flags (Israel and USA-flags)
Student protest on plaza de armas
januari 25, 2009
18 december
At other side of the bridge you are in the Bolivian city of Villazon.
it appeared 2h hour difference with my clock. For the rest not much to see in this border village, took the train at 15h30 to Uyuni.
Villazon
december 23, 2008
18-20 November Bariloche
trek Refugio Frey 6h walking
cycling lago Lao Lao + cerro Companario (teleferique 
+ colonia Suiza (small and not really anything to see)
trek Refugio Jakob (Sant-Martin), up till lago Temporano (high in snow) 10h walking
bridge (good bridge) over rio walk to refugio Jakob
december 10, 2008
Chile
2/11 Arrive in San Pedro de Atacama
3/11 bicycle the whole day, first to Pucara, a fortress on the hills of a pre-incan group, the garganta del diabolo, I beautiful narrow gorge where you can cycle through.
Catarpe-valley, beautifull valley, though I did not find the ruins there, like on most places the indications are completely missing, the one local man I met also send me to the wrong place.
In the evening to the valle de la luna to see the sunset. Although only 12 km, it was quite tough, mostly up, I estimate 1 full km had an average of 14%, no asfalt, grind ! against the wind, against the sun. But I still managed to see the most important things and be at the supposed to be best viewing point at sunset 19h30
Small isolated church in valley close to San Pedro de Atacama
november 17, 2008
Though most if not all cervezas are of the lager type, there are many different to be found here, hereby my current top 10 of South-American beers.
Salta Negra (Argentina)
Zillertal ( Uruguay )
Austral Calafate Ale (Argentina)
Andes Blanca (Argentina)
Nova Schin (Brazil)
Norte Negra (Argentina)
Isenbeck (Uruguay)
Kunstman amber (Chile)
Quilmes stout (Argentina)
Brahma blanca (Brazil)
(meer…)
november 6, 2008
11/10 Mendoza.
Arrived in the morning, in afternoon I did a Bodega tour, I especially like the red wine Malbeq, it was rather interesting, there was also a small family plant where they made olive-oil, the girl-guide praised the olive-oil for all of it healthy qualities, and I thought beer was the heavens liquid.
12/10 Alto Plano tour to Puente del Los Inca, Penitentos, Potrerillos ski reort, Uspallata (7-years in Tibet filmed there) lot of alamo (poplar) trees there, view Aconcagua and Tupungato, though esp Tupungato from big distance, it was very windy around the border with Chile.
Puente del Inca, hoge Andes
oktober 20, 2008
Tigre 30 september
boat trip from Carmelo, Uruguay, very early in the morning.
Visited Tigre, San Isidoro and Borges, Olivos before going to the center, San Telmo, commuter train to Retiro was during rush-hour, so a very crowded train, but it was not for long.
Youth hostal until 8 oktober, I´m not really sure about the order, but around one line for a day. (meer…)
oktober 20, 2008
Ok,
I´ll make the report of Uruguay not too long, after all I´ve made already 3 messages explaining a lot, in the first 2 I describe day by day my visit, in the 3rd I ramble along quite a lot about freedom and what drives people in the country, at least from what I have seen, so please read those if you are interested.
Uruguay-interior
Uruguay-sea-side
Independance (ramblings)
