CLIFFS NOTESWhat We Did Ate steak Walked close to 10 miles a day and visited various neighborhoods: Retiro, Recoletta, Palermo, Puerto Madera, San Nicholas Ate steak Visited modern art museum, the opera house, the president's office building Ate steak Ate pizza Ate steak Visited cemetery and La Fleur Ate steak What We Liked Most The steak Walking around the neighborhoods, seeing the parks,sculptures, and the italian-influenced architecture Vis...

CLIFFS NOTESWhat We Did Explored Iguazu Falls. It was an incredible sight. Great blend of beauty and fury :) Lots of walking around town Visited Triple Frontier - you can stand in Argentina but see Brazil and Paraguay as well Hummingbird garden What We Liked Most Seeing the falls Seeing the animals at the park Walking to the Triple Frontier Memorable Moments Being drenched in water from the "up-spray" from "Devil's Throat" at the falls Each...

Hi all! Thanks so much for the nice, clever, and fun comments on our message board, photos, and blog entries! After several attempts to upload photos on slow internet connections, we have successfully uploaded a 100 or so photos from Peru. We are wrapping up our time in Argentina and beginning plan out our visit to Japan now. Hoping to get our Argentina recap and photos posted very soon! -d&c

First - we have gotten a few messages about the earthquake in Peru - thank you for thinking of us... We are actually totally safe in Argentina now. :) ___________________________ About Peru.... This recap is far too detailed to think that you all will want to read it. I (diana) realize that... there is just so much to say and rather than try to trim and edit, I just wrote it freestyle so that we could get it posted. It is a full brain-dump of everything we di...

We just arrived in Guayaquil on the coast of mainland Ecuador after spending 11 days in Galapagos! It is very humid and warm here and we have made good use of our 50 spf sunscreen. We are also working hard on our Spanish :)For our first full day we visited Floreana island to see Giant turtles and a research center. Then we spent a little time at the beach winding down before heading back to stay a couple of nights in Puerto Ayora. The town was very lively and f...