Since I had already spent quite some time in Buenos Aires I decided to take the train to the nearby town of Tigre on my last day in South America. I took a nice walk along the river front, then I practically ran to Puerto de Frutos for the noon boat tour. Unfortunately there weren't enough tourists for it so I had to wait for the later tour instead. I did some window shopping in the market then took the two hour 1:30pm boat tour through the rivers. There were...

I arrived at my friend Pat's house (a fellow Spanish teacher w/ family in Cordoba) at 4:30am after a long day in Panama City. By 11am I was on a tour of the Jesuit church and the first university in Argentina. I saw the special room where the doctoral students used to defend their thesis - an almost impossible task - 3 days in latin! We also saw some of the old books that were saved by the Franciscans when the Jesuits were kicked out of South America in 1767. ...

Day 1 I took the Clouds tour through Santa Rosa de Tastil and San Antonio de los Cobres, through the Salt fields to Purmamarca, Juyuy.For lunch I had cabrito (goat) & shared w/ a guy from Barcelona who got the milanesa de llama or llama snitzel.They were both good - the llama meat was so thin that it didn't taste like much more than the breading.In the salt fields we took some awesome pictures then stopped at the highest point - 4170 meters ASL before reachin...

The first day I walked around the main square of the city then I went into the MAAM museum and it was really interesting - I got to see a frozen Incan mummy found at almost 7000m high.There were 3 found in total but they only have one on display at a time.It was really freaky but also really cool - totally preserved, the skin was even normal color, not gray. After the museum I walked around San Martin park before taking the cable car up the San Bernardo hill wher...

I took a tour that takes you along 7 lakes & a bifurcated waterfall to get to Bariloche.We stopped at one place where I saw lots of sheep & got to try my first torta frita (fried dough).It was very good especially in the cold!We walked a little around a cute town called Villa de la Angostura & I bought some of their famous chocolate.When I got to Bariloche it was raining so I didn't do much else except buy more chocolate & a warmer jacket! Luck...