 Antarctica & South America
in 2004
These last few years, I visited some very touristy places, the Caribbean islands,
the Pacific islands and the Greek islands. There were so many tourists in some of
these places that I often felt that the local people were seeing me, not as an individual
human being, but as an object to be processed as rapidly as possible on a busy assembly
line. I did not like that feeling at all so this year I chose to visit Antarctica
and some of the less known cities of the "Southern Cone" where I hoped there would
be fewer tourists.
I had visited South America before in 1994 but this time, I had the huge advantage
of having developed several internet acquaintances who knew me from my website. I found that
it made a world of difference as people who knew why I was there opened up and shared
their reality with me. It gave me a better understanding of what was going on than
what I would have been able to grasp from chance meetings.
This year's adventure took me from Montreal to
Buenos Aires and Ushuaia, to
Antarctica, 1,
2,
3, &
4, to
Calafate and Chaiten, through the
Chilean fjords and
Chiloe Island, to
Bariloche & Neuquén, to
Bahia Blanca, to
Victorica in the Pampas, across
beautiful Pehuenche Pass, to
Santiago, over the Andes again to
Mendoza and Cordoba, to
La Rioja and Catamarca, to
Tucuman and Salta, to
San Antonio de las Cobres, across
Jama Pass , to
San Pedro de Atacama, to Bolivia's
Altiplano, to the
Salar Uyuni, to
Potosi, to
Sucre and Santa Cruz, to
Paraguay, to
Argentina's Puerto Iguazu, to
Florianopolis and Puerto Alegre in Brazil, to
Chui, La Paloma,Montevideo and Colonia in Uruguay,and finally back to
Buenos Aires for
a few weeks before boarding my return flight to Montreal.
More than half of this four month trip was spent in Argentina so I had time to look into
the financial problems of this very interesting country .
As usual, I am providing some
information on
costs and hotels that might be useful to you if you are considering a trip
in that part of the world.
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