11 Jun 2013
by Ben
in Family Gap Year
Tags: Argentina, Armadillo, Killer whale, orca, peninsula valdez, Peninsular Valdez, valdes peninsula
13th March 2013. Today I went in our car to see some Orcas and Elephant seals on the Peninsular Valdez in Argentina but we didn’t see any!
Just a board to tell us about them! The Orcas are also called Killer Whales but are actually members of the dolphin family. They are also called killer whales but they haven’t killed humans except when they are captive. They are the worlds largest predator of warm blooded animals – they hunt seals and penguins and we could have seen this on the peninsular. They launch themselves right onto the beach to catch them!
We just read the sign! 😦
Watch this amazing YouTube video to see what we missed More
07 Jun 2013
by Mo
in Family Gap Year
Tags: Chile, iquique, La Serena
In La Serena, Chile, we found this attractive looking memorial and were interested to see it was in memory of a massacre on 21-12-1907 (it happened to be 100 years to the day before Lara was born) of workers, women and children at a school in Iquique, further north between La Serena and Arica where Erika had visited. We wondered why it was here in La Serena and what happened?
The Iquique Massacre memorial in La Serena
We made a mental note, took the photo and planned to Google it. More
06 Jun 2013
by Mo
in Family Gap Year
Tags: Killer whale, Peninsular Valdez, puerto madryn
The day after Ben’s birthday we leave Buenos Aires for the second time and take along overnight bus south to Puerto Madryn, the main coastal town on the edge of the huge Peninsular Valdez.
The Peninsular Valdez, Argentina, towards Patagonia, renowned for amazing wildlife and sealife – especially whales, elephant seals and orcas.
It’s an especially tiring day for everyone, usual packing dramas, Martin suffering with a nasty bout of man flu, More
04 Jun 2013
by Ben
in Family Gap Year, Foodie Central, Kids Stuff, Top Experiences
I had my 10th birthday in Buenos Aires. My family thought it was very funny to call me Ben 10 and give me Ben 10 gifts. My little sister Lara gave me a Ben 10 toothbrush!
Luckily I persuaded them to buy me a finger skateboard and not the cuddly Ben 10 at this toy shop in Buenos Aires!
Before my birthday, I wrote a To Do list that looked like this:- More
03 Jun 2013
by Mo
in Family Gap Year
Tags: Buenos Aires, Buquebus, Colonia, hostel el Viajero, Montevideo, Río de la Plata, Uruguay
5th-8th March 2013
We arrive in the beautiful town of Colonia in Uruguay, mid-morning, on a Buquebus ferry from Buenos Aires. It takes about 90 minutes to cross the Rio de la Plata – claimed to be the widest river in the world – it’s 200km wide at its mouth, though considered more an estuary by some. The crossing isn’t cheap and ideally we’d come for longer but we’re really running our of time now in South America! Our original 5-6 month plan is already stretched to 9! We justify the short trip because we can draw out a stash of US dollars that we’ll exchange back in Buenos Aires for the dollar blue rate – now over 50% more than the official bank rate. Incredible isn’t it?!!
We walk along the waterfront road of this lovely Unesco World heritage site to where we’re booked for the night, Hostel el Viajero, the kids being troopers with their packs in the heat. El Viajero has super friendly staff who work hard to get a room ready for us to have an early check in and give us heaps of information…
The gorgeous streets of Colonia where you really feel you have stepped back in time
We head straight out to explore around the beautiful, quiet, cobbled town. It has a fantastic More
28 May 2013
by Mo
in Education & Schooling, Family Gap Year, Top Experiences
Tags: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Casa Rosada, Eva Peron, Museo de Ninos
26 February 2013. We arrive in Buenos Aires at 8.30am after being served breakfast on our VIP 20 hour bus trip from Iguazu Falls.
A walk and a run around the docklands area of Buenos Aires
We’d hoped to go via Uruguay but scouring forums and blogs for information on this route suggested complicated stops and connections with people being stranded at quiet border towns for half the night and having to hitch. Didn’t really fancy this with three tired kids and all our bags! More
26 May 2013
by Zoe
in Family Gap Year, Kids Stuff, Top Experiences
Tags: Flat Stanley, iguazu falls, South America
I loved Iguazu Falls. It was one of my favourite places in South America. I thought it was going to be like the waterfall in the film UP because in that film the old man has a dream of going to some waterfalls in South America but Iguazu is much bigger.
Me, Ben, Lara and Flat Stanley
I took Flat Stanley to see Iguazu. More
24 May 2013
by Ben
in Adventure, Family Gap Year, Kids Stuff, Top Experiences
Tags: Argentina, Brazil, iguacu falls, iguazu, iguazu falls, Itaipu dam, Itaipu zoo, Paraguay
We were at Iguazu for a few days. We stayed in Argentina and just across the river Iguazu were Brazil and Paraguay. It was wet and jungly rainforest which we hadn’t seen for a while after being in the Andes. Each day we were in a different country. We crossed the borders about 10 times in a week! Here are some of my highlights and favourite pictures and wildlife!
Brazil
You can visit the Falls in Brazil and Argentina. We started in Brazil. This was pretty much my first view of the falls. It looked amazing but even more amazing when we got on the boat a few days later. We could see the boats down in the river going under the falls!
Me at Iguazu!
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22 May 2013
by Mo
in Adventure, Family Gap Year, Foodie Central, Photos, Top Experiences, Travelling
Tags: Argentina, Brazil, Ciudad del Este, iguacu falls, iguassu, iguazu falls, Itaipu dam, Itaipu zoo, Paraguay, puerto iguazu
Iguazu Falls – just a fraction of the Falls which includes 275 individual cascades amidst multiple islands.
Iguassu (or Iguazu, or Iguacu Falls) is so incredible it deserves its 3 spellings, or more, if you include versions with or without accents. Then there’s Puerto Iguazu in Argentina and Foz do Iguacu just across the border in Brazil, the towns and airports in the midst of the rainforest, stopping off points for the Falls.
About to get under the Iguazu falls!
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