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Travel Blogs from Gaiman
Has anyone seen a penguin?
Today we have a 600km dash across Argentina to the Atlantic coast to pick up Daniel who has flown out for Christmas in a most convoluted route that took in Toronto, Santiago and Buenos Aires before arriving in Trelew (another Welsh outpost). After 3 hours, 5th gear returned (French car remember). The trick is to go into a Zen like state in which …
Whales and Wales
... and blowing a gale so we decided to skip camping again! Pizza tonight and 101 Dalmatians on the tele. Tomorrow we go exploring – hopefully to see right whales, sea lions, elephant seals and if we are lucky orca whales too.
Day 27 – 27 October 2012
Popped into book our Whale watching tour only to be told the port was closed as it was too windy but that it would probably clear up in the afternoon so we took our ...
Tomando chá
... na mesma cidade, outra indicação do Fabio. Passamos o dia nesta faina e já lhes conto a causa. O museu em Trelew, além de ter um acervo poderoso, é muito bem instalado. Maravilha de divulgação científica, todo auto-explicativo. De lá, fomos a Gaiman, percorrer o sendero paleontológico do MEF. V. sobe devagarinho a 125m de altitude, percorrendo uma trilha onde os fósseis originais cobrem 40 milhões de anos ...
From Whales to Wales
... with their spring blossoms. There is an old train tunnel without lights, it’s pitch black before reaching the exit, we talked of trolls, vampires and zombies to make it extra exciting. Some locals use it to get from one side of town to the other, not sure I could do that alone. Desafio Park sounded very interesting, elaborately decorated by a man for his ...
Tipyn Bach, Tipyn Bach
... at cool upstairs cafe which had traditional Argentinian dancing and yes, you guessed it, tango.
From Buenos Aires we took a 17 hour bus to Puerto Iguazu on the border of Brazil and Paraguay to see the mighty Iguazu Falls. And boy were they mighty. Viewing them from land was breathtaking enough, but our boat trip was absolutely amazing and probably thouroughly dangerous. Our proximity to the water crashing down made for ...