Colonia Carlos Pellegrini, Argentina Travel Blogs

Esteros del Ibera en Colonia Carlos Pellegrini
Sep 6, 2007 (39 photos)

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Idle days in Esteros del Ibera
Sep 28, 2007 (9 photos)

... afternoon we spot monkeys, caymen, capybaras with their babies, and everywhere we are surrounded by strange and unfamiliar birds. Colonia Carlos Pellegrini is on the edge of a waterworld of Esteros del Ibera. When the Rio Parana changed its ...

Enter Carlos, population 500 (I swear)
Oct 24, 2008

... for! We´re going to try not to arrive at our next campground on the weekend and see how that goes. Carlos Pellegrini was incredible, despite the children (hereafter referred to as Los Estudiantes)and the torrential downpours we experienced. About a mile ...

At One With Nature
Oct 9, 2009 (11 photos)

... cleaner vehicles transporting cattle. Still, it was cheap and apart from taking a taxi it was the only way of reaching Colonia. The minibus trundled along the dirtroad to Colonia and three hours later we emerged hoping that the effort would be worthwhile. ...

Colonia Carlos Pellegrini
Aug 31, 2008

... same restaurant for lunch, and were rewarded for our loyalty with a free pudding.  We were very sad to leave Colonia Carlos Pellegrini, knowing that by the next time we visit the march of progress will mean a paved road, more houses, more tourists ...

Searching
Nov 11, 2006

... river, reading under the shade of the trees in the parks, discovering the many murials. In corrientes I have experienced my first Argentina Protest, as they marched around the plaza, through out the day they set of bangers that would leave a puff of smoke ...

Pellegrini; floating islands, crocs and big rats!
Dec 8, 2009 (73 photos)

... us good information and flattered us about the quality of our Spanish. We had already planned to move on to Colonia Carlos Pellegrini and she showed us several alternative stopping places and made suggestions about how to see the National Park. We ended ...

Thanks to all!!
Mar 7, 2007

THANK YOU!!!!We just wanted to thank all of you who have been following us along our travels. We have been having a great time exploring the world, meeting interesting people, and new family that we didnt know we had. Our trip is almost coming to an end ...

Wheres the steak?
Jan 3, 2006

After a serious of hardcore long bus journeys in Brazil we decided to take things a little easier in Argentina so a short bus trip of 5 hours took us to Podasas. This was just a stopover town on our way south. Podasas is a nice town, but where did all the ...

Estera del Ibera
Mar 18, 2007

... him later). However, it is not convenient to get there, particularly from Iguazu.  The main town (800 people) is Colonia Carlos Pellegrini and the closest paved road - in Mercedes - is over 110 kilometers south.  Iguazu, however, is to ...

More Birds
Jul 16, 2009 (25 photos)

Continued on to  the town of Colonia Pelligrini which is an entrance to the Reserva Provincial Esteros del Ibera, apparently a wildlife cornucopia. The last 100kms consisted of a reasonably good dirt road, on this we got stopped by the Police quite ...

Entre Rios, Corrientes and Wildlife
Dec 4, 2009 (4 photos)

... set off for Ibera the bus only goes once a day to Mercedes at 12.30 and then returns to Mercedes at 4am from Colonia del Carlos Pellegrini the village situated in the Parque. There was also another Scottish couple on the Bus who has also been accosted by ...

Naturreservat Esteros del Iberá
Jun 10, 2009 (16 photos)

Während vier Tagen hielt ich mich in dem kleinen Dörfchen Colonia Carlos Pellegrini auf. Von diesem Dorf aus hat man Zugang zum Naturreservat "Esteros del Iberá" welches ein grosses Sumpfgebiet ist und etliche, mir jedoch nicht genauer bekannte, Vogelarten, ...

Colonia Carlos Pellegrini
Sep 2, 2005

Hello!! I am cheating slightly and postdating this as there were no internet cafes in Colonia Carlos Pellegrini. In fact there was only one public phone, hence we were incomunicado for a while. Anyway we took an overnight bus to Mercedes on the 31st ...