A Review of the last Month

Rainy days in Buenos Aires,
Amazing views in Iguazu,
Great time in Cordoba with Dan (from Israel),
Exciting rafting experience in Mendoza,
Friendly and funny border controls on the way to Chile,
Colourful Valparaiso...
What does Santiago have to offer? :D

We've enjoyed 18 days of our honeymoon already. Tomorrow we are heading further.

Buenos Aires did not seem to be the smiley and nice city everyone talked about. It is an extremely touristic city and the sad thing is that many of the rumors we hear about Buenos Aires turned out to be some hook for tourists and it did not have this local and authentic air. I got the feeling that the tango danced in the streets of the quarter "La Boca" were very vivid as long as the tourists kept coming back, not any longer. At night, there was nothing left, but some dark streets and a badly polluted river. In Buenos Aires, together with many other couchsurfers, we attended the best percussion concert ever. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! With more than 1000 people, a percussion band that was making that place explode and dances over dances, we had our best time there, jumping, doing pogo, and feeling the beats in our chests.
A great enrichment or improving of our stay in the Argentinian capital, was Carlos, the couchsurfer from the airplane, who was so friendly, funny and welcoming!

Leaving Buenos Aires, we decided that we are heading towards places with a lot of nature, where we would meet more locals, have a great time and sunny weather.

Even if, we did not manage to get in touch with any of the locals (besides the bus and taxi drivers :D), we spent an absolutely great time, enjoying the nice view of the Iguazu Waterfalls and constantly being amazed by the power of the waterfalls, the always-green nature and the sweet animals. Ok, all were sweet, even the 3 cm long ant, but the viper serpent that people were talking about.

As Mart already wrote, next day Puerto Iguazu literally turned into a real waterfall. By the way, it is the raining season at the moment in South America, but we are really doing our best to escape it :D... Luckily so far, we did a good job, hehehehe

We decided to skip Brazil and its German communities... the nature has simply much more to offer. That is why at the moment we are heading in south, in order to enjoy as many natural parks and small towns.

Cordoba: sweet weater, smily people and we met Dan!! Dan is a traveller from Israel, who like many other people tried to fix our laptop, which seems to be unfixable, hehehe. We really miss the Family Guy episodes before the good-night-sleep :D. There we enjoyed the local festivity dedicated to Santa Maria, where all the city quarters brought statues of Santa Maria and marched with them through the city. People, dogs, music, cars, statues, us: everything was there :D The warm pasta in the evening was very welcomed by the three of us. Mart and I fell asleep by watching Wally. On the nexy day, the three of us left very enthusiastic to enjoy the argentinian-german Oktoberfest. Well, what should have we expected: IT WAS MONDAY NOON, so the place looked as crowded as it should be on a Monday noon :D. We walked through the town, had our food at a local restaurant, where man pays for the kilo and had our beers, enjoying a funny talk about males and their way of thinking. Martin was satisfied: in the 8000 inhabitant town (plus many other tourists), Martin managed to talk German to a local, whose family was German-Swiss. The rice-vegetable meal in the evening was very welcomed, as well. During our second tentative to watch Wally, we fell asleep again :D

Mendoza: nice, calm town, with crazy, meaning good water for rafting. We stayed at Ralf´s place, a cool guy from Dresden, so I finally managed to talk more Saxon :D What a beautiful open-air hall they had :D we had nice talks and moldo-saxan food :D. As I somehow got convinced to pay for the rafting ticket, next day, at 8:30 we had to be ready for the rafting trip. As many of you have been already surprised: tda-tda, I cannot swim. I was so scared, damn, there were huge stones in the river, there was water in the river, of course, and there was me, all shaking and missing Mendoza :S. The experience was fabolous though, it was absolutely amazing to feel the power of the water and the nice work-team that we managed to handle :D Hahaha, by the way we were successful to staying on budget (as the ones who fell in the water had to buy beer for the whole team ;D)) Sun-tanning came next.

Valparaiso: absolutely amazing, nice friendly people, COLOURFUL HOUSES, sea-lions jumping out of the water, lots of hills to walk, and a city where I could gladly spend some more time. For the ones who ever get there, I could really reccommend you vising the museum La Sebastiana. It gave us some ideas on how we would like to have our bedroom :D Nice walks and steep lifts, made our experience.

Now we are in Santiago, where there are more than 30 degrees C. Not as bad as we though, and the Pre-Columbian Museum, where we managed to get for free ;D is truly wow. There one can find out a lot about the indigenous people populating the Meso- and South America.

Tonight, we are heading towards Patagonia. Our dream becomes true.

Mart is next to me, writing as well on our Chilian-Argentinian experience, I am really curious to read his article, as well :D

PS: we write little, we enjoy much though .