07.05.-09.05.11 Colonia On Saturday, 07.05.11 I left Carlos (Couchsurfer) house in "Belgrano" (suburb in Buenos Aires) at 8am. I quickly said "Good Bye" to him as he was still asleep. At 9.30am I crossed the massive river "RIO DEL PLATA" by ferry and three hours later I arrived in COLONIA in URUGUAY. The ferry ride was very pleasant and smooth and as usual on my journeys I wrote my travel stories. When I arrived at the H...

Buenos Aires 02.05.-07.05.11 On Monday, 02.05.11 arrived at 7am in Buenos Aires. I was so happy to know that I could stay with Carlos. Carlos is a Couchsurfer and offered me to stay at his apartment in the suburb "Belgrano"! As the "subte" (metro) was packed with people at that time I took a taxi to Carlos's place. Even though he told me that he would get up at 8pm I decided to have a coffee at the nice café opposite his apartment buil...

Cordoba 26.04.-01.05.11 On Tuesday, 26.04.11 I arrived in CORDOBA at 7am. At the bus station I met Brian from New Zealand who was also looking for a hostel. So we decided to take a taxi together to the Hostel PALENQUE which was right in the city centre. After we checked in, had a shower and some breakfast we decided to check out the main sight in the city centre. We walked through the nice pedestrian malls, to the PLAZA SAN MARTIN, IGELSIA CATEDRAL, UNIVER...

Mendoza 22.04.-25.04.11 It was Good Friday the 22nd of April 2011 when I left Valparaiso at 8.30am in the morning. The bus ride from VALPARAISO IN CHILE to MENDOZA IN ARGENTINA was absolutely amazing. We went through the Andes and crossed the border half way at the Immigration centre at 2.800m where it even started snowing. The scenery for the following 4 hours to Mendoza was absolutely breath-taking and we drove along the highest mountain of South America...

Valparaiso 19.04.-22.04.11 I was a bit upset and confused when I arrived in VALPARAISO. First of all as it didn't work out to stay with anyone in Santiago and secondly as Hector kindly offered me his nice flat for Easter and the staff from the Ecohostel invited me for a BBQ on Thursday! But as it was too expensive to travel back and as I wanted to continue my travels I decided to spend my EASTER 2011 in MENDOZA in Argentina. In Valparaiso I took the l...