Sheraton Cordoba

... Falls, and incorporated symbols from their pre-Christian beliefs (demostrating the Jesuits´ tolerant approach).

We also visited two museums, the first an old colonial house filled with colonial furniture and other items. The English translations of the information cards in each room were amusing, e.g. one told us we were in the room of enchantment of women and children. It was interesting to learn that social visits between colonial ...

... to it; as a university town it had many young people everywhere; there were many lovely old buildings from the colonial times; and, it had the pace of Bs As, without as much pandemonium! We stopped off at a supermarket to fetch some goodies and headed back to the hostel. Having been neglecting our '5 a day, keeps the doctor away' regime, we decided to ease up on the protein for a night, and cooked up a scrumptious vegetable+rice concoction!

The following day we headed ...

Het is dan eindelijk zo ver, we zijn aan het klussen in het weeshuis. Woehoe! Eerst maar even een korte beschrijving van het huis. Het ligt op ongeveer 30 km van het centrum van Cordoba en is gesticht door een pater en met behulp van een erfenis van een rijke dame hebben ze een heel ruim opgezet complex opgezet. Er zitten tussen de 100 en 150 kinderen in het huis, varierend van 8 tot 3 bedden per kamer, dus veel privacy is er niet. Wassen is een heuse dagtaak hier en de ...

... go (BBQ to you and I), and we enjoyed some amazing food once again before we were driven back into Cordoba. It was an amazing 4 days, the family are brilliant, the guides and gauchos so friendly and helpful, the horses amazing, the food incredible and the whole Estancia somewhere you could go and forget about everything in this world. A very special place indeed, and somewhere we both want to spend longer at another time. Now, just need to get back home and get some riding lessons booked at Trent Park!!

... down the rocky paths. Jeff had a particularly good horse which was eager to take him on his fastest run ever while chasing down and passing spooked cattle then dodging tree branches in the fading light of dusk. Mission accomplished on the riding. We had purposely chosen this hostel-ranch with the goal of getting the chance to meet other Argentinians and travelers. As we had hoped, it was a very communal environment with everyone ...

... are nice, it´s like 16 of us, out of which 1 French guy, 1 Spanish girl, 2 Guatemalan girls who are my roommates and everyone else is Argentinian. When i got there, they all were talking so fast that I could not understand a word. But I think it is good, cause I was forced to talk only in Spanish, so my Spanish is improving day by day. I really like the people in my house, they are all nice and fun, even though I do ...

... falls (as we arrived in the dark) and it was all jungle/forest for about 5 hours. The journey in total took a mere 23 hours and in that time we didnt actually even get off the bus as they didnt have organised stops, just to pick people up, so we didnt get off in case the driver buggered off and left us there! Over here they have 3 differernt levels of bus Semi-cama, Cama and Cama total so we went for the Cama one which means you get ...

... in charge of wrapping the outgoing mail is a 65 year old blind woman. That's right, blind. She's not in the communications department, she doesn't answer phones, oh no...she wraps. After accepting the fact that she probably won this job in a raffle we reluctantly give her the package and to our surprise she did a really good job. the wine was bubble wrapped, the box was neatly covered in brown paper and she even tied it with string. Unfortunately it ...

... meditate. On this particular day I had the luck to share the entire mountain with only two other people (there is a logbook at the front to keep track of lost hikers). When not hiking and exploring I spent a lot of time hanging out by the river reading Marco Polo{s Travels and thinking about my travel plan. The day before I left Carola cooked the three us of steak and barbecued eggplant. I departed feeling relaxed and centered, ready to head back to gringo territory.