Santa Cruz and the Searing heat.

i´m going to misiones in a bout one hour andthe internet connection is so slow....
i just want to congratulate Pim v.d. Berg for his upcoming birthday. and because the place where i go has no internet, so i do it now. good health and luck i wish for you.


BTW santa Cruz is a terrible town dont go here.... just pass by for one day or something and thats too much i think. okay now i need too hurry... bye for now.

Suerte

Ch´

Doble T : Tupiza y Tarija

It was probably one of the best busride ive ever done. the scenic is so amazing and it was the first time that i really could appreciated the richness of Bolivia.

yeah back down on earth and i actually love it. although it was one of the best, it was still one of the most dangerous. but the more time ive spent here in bolivia the more i love it. this country has potential and i hope with Obama as president of EE. UU. things are started to loosen up a bit.

i had a pleasant discussion with another traveller from Yugoslavia, about Obama and about the time he (obama) spent in Indonesia. he was definetely interested about Indonesia and really curious about it. but he also spoke about the political climate here in Bolivia and in Public. one thing that I avoided to speak about actually. but anyhow. in the small Pueblo of Tupiza i think it was a bit manageable. and we both are actually for Evo anyway (So almost all the people in Tupiza as well).

But on the valley where they growth grapes, almost everyone is again Evo. because they do not wanted to share their richdom. so it`s a bit dangerous to discuss about it here in Tarija. but lets move on to another subject.

oh yeah yesterday it was my first time i used my ORS. its mix of salt and sugar used when you have heavy D. yeah i ve eaten from the street, eat something not cooked in front of me and definetly not checked the hygiene and almost everything was picante. So now i know the result yes¡¡¡¡ but i´m not bringing my ORS for nothing and i went to bolivia to save m0ney so anyhow.... but now im definetly more cautious and eat only at the restaurants the guide recommended (i also brought my guide book for something). except for api a typical bolivian drink (with cinnamon, sugar , much other things).

Tarija is really quiet ( no much troubles about the results of referendum) but i could sense the different between week day and fin de semana . It´s so busy right now and i kinda wish i was in Tupiza again where everythiung is much more tranquille. but one more big city , Santa Cruz, and i head for the more tranquille chuiquitos. Concepcion, San Jose, San Javier the places where the jesuits builded their churches for Reduccion among one of the other things.

the last chance to see the jesuits ruines, because i didnt went to argentina and paraguay missiones. one more thing about tarija is the beautiful plazas and the colonial feeling about it that made me really like the city. but other wise i like tupiza alot more.

Tupiza. the small town locked by the colourful cerros and it´s really green. it was also the final place for butch cassidy and sundance kid. but I only went for the cañon del inca. it was really amazing, and on horse back it felt like a western movie. small impression about the cañon and i`m off.

in real life it´s much more beautiful

suerte y abrazo


Ch´

El corazon del Sur america

hola amigos, que tal? todo tranquile aqui. muy bien, pero primero quiero dicer un atencion para una persona muy importante. Persona muy guapa, con corazon muy grande y tambien siempre mi protegé. una semana atras fue su compluanos y ahora yo quiero felicitar en mi blog. Muchos años mas, mucha suerte y salud.

bueno, mando los regalos pronto. creo es muy dificile para os, cuando yo escribo con espanol.

so back to ingles now. many days have passed by without me being able to wrote anything on my blog. it`s because i was travelling alot and not staying very long in one place. especially because chile is so expensive. but i also saw the most amazing things in the world and done things i´ve never done before. So it`s kinda balanced everythings i think. the last publication i´ve made i was in Viña now i want to give you my report about La Serena, San pedro de atacama and of course my crossing to Bolivia through the blinding salt flats of Uyuni. it was amazing weeks although it goes rather fast i think.

La Serena

the amazing Reserva nacional de humboldt penguins (isla Damas) i will never forget it. it was really amazing to be able to see the aminals so close and especially the bottlenose dolphins that pops out of nothing and the cute baby seals, baby penguins and baby dolphins. also sea otters and alot of birds. and the strange looking rock in isla damas but on contrary the most beautiful beach ive ever seen. i´ve learned alot about the nature just being here in SA and not to be in school, i really think that university back home really need a better exchange program and allow all of the students to go backpacking. maybe i should write a letter to the secretary of education ;)

San pedro de atacama

the 16 hours bus ride to san pedro was one of the most beautiful busride ive ever done. although after a while i kinda get bored of only seeing dessert and sand. arrived in san pedro it was hot and dusty. got accomodation really quick because every hostees were on tourist hunting (and believe me San pedro is really touristic).

but on the good side was ive met a group of chilean docents from chillan. they were really nice and invited me to joined their group to go to valle da luna (photo on top) and of course the geysers of El Tatio. i think they were the most pleasant chillean people iveever met. but again ive not met many chilleans. ja ja ja

after the geyser i went for sandboarding. it was alot of fun but to go up is exhausting. they really need to build a lift there.

Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia)

the vulcanos, the lagunas, the flamengos, the cold hail, funny looking rabbit, lot of cactus, sand and more sand, hotel build from salt. and in the end there it was the blinding salt flats of Uyuni, the highest and maybe the biggest salt flat in the world. or as i called it ¨gudang garam¨. it`s maybe one of the most beautiful places in Bolivia and must see if you are going to visit Bolivia.

the downside of all that beauty is the altitude. it´s so high that every day my head is spinning. and always breath really heavily. especially the first day was horrible. but the snow capped vulcanos and the tree of stone makes it worth. and of course the blinding white flats.

Now i´m in Tupiza, 200 km south of uyuni. the bus ride to here was amazing. especially when we met another bus coming from the other direction. and just right to us is a cliff of 50 m. Puta, if we fell... then what that´s what i had in my mind. it`s not only one the world most dangerous road here, but every road is the most dangerous. But here in Bolivia is the first time i fell that i´m in South america. the women here still wearing there traditional clothing and the most beautiful buildings are the church on the plaza. the houses are not painted and they look really horrible actually. but now i really feel that i`m in the heart of South america. the more freightning thing is next sunday is the election day. so... i´m heading to Tarija, Sucre and Santa Cruz. just to let you know.

Suerte y salud

Ch´

¡HOLA PACIFICO!

okay, now i have officially seen the 3 oceans of the world. the Indian ocean, the atlantic and the pacific.
which in my opinion the pacific is the best of all three. but i have seen the crappier part of indian ocean so it didn´t really count i think. oh yeah before i forget




Soleila, Feliz compluañus para ti.
Muchas suerte y salud.

para traducion, preguntas tu padre ;)

okay after a dazzling ride through the andes (which was really spectacular) and also the dazzling waiting time on the border of chile i finally made it. arrived save and sound in Viña del mar. I must say Viña is probabaly my favourite place at this moment. it`s really great to have some cooling down after very very hot Mendoza. and to be able to swim in the sea with clear green and blue coloured water. the other fun part of the sea is the big wave which very surfable (I wish u was here, T ). i actually wish everybody in cold cold holland to be here and enjoy the warm and sunny pacific coast, which i really love.

not so far from viña is Valparaiso. when i saw the picture of the accensors i directly recognised this placea as one of the place Che guevara had visited on his journey. I really love it. its a mix of the good part of Rio (St. Teresa and lapa) and the worst part of RJ ( the favela) and also La Boca of BA. I love the cerros and the accensors in generally i love beaches with hill side i think. another place which was really great is con cón not far from Viña its a fiching village with very quite dark coloured beaches (volcanic sand i think). offer the best sea food restaurant and quiet time to work on my tan.

This one is for pepe ;)



















beside beaches this region also offer hills where one could do some trekking. to be exact it`s the parque nacional la campana. it`s also the place where darwin climbed up the hill and which he claimed one of the best views in Chile. I arrived at the parque really late. it`s about 5 km up hill to climbed up till the site where darwin was and about 7 to the top. so i decided only to climbed till darwin site. It was really exhausting trip, approximate time to climbed up till placa darwin is about 3 hours and i have done it in 3,5 hour which is not really bad actually considered my bad stamina i needed to take alot of brake. and the trail was really steep so i kinda had back ache after a while. and so now and then i took an opportunity to go off the trail and climbed some rocks. FREESTYLE without any security and partner. it was not really big a deal. one rock i climbed was about 5 m but the next one was a wall of 12 m +. the rock is much higher than 12 m but without safety i do not want to take a lot of risks. but with my Bear Grylls shirts it felt like an episode of Ultimate Survival. jajaja :)


the view really is magnificent so it`s worth to climbed













So I`m off on a new adventures, but i do missed the time i spent with the 2 viajeros de Altea, Espana.
missed the time we cooked together and eat with our hands. also the fun time we had with Wilson from RJ.
and the Sangrias, fake caipirinhas and cuba libre. So this page of my digital journal is dedicated for you the ones that go to the south of the continent and also the one that goes back to Brasil. Muchacho y muchacha muchas suerte en patagonia y encontramos a Manaus. Vale, Venga, Vamos.

Suerte

Ch´

Feliz año nuevo

comencar de nuevo año con un bailando

day 63 - day 72: 26 december 2008 - 4 januari 2009

Feliz año nuevo / happy new year / gelukkig nieuw jaar / selamat tahun baru

for all of you have a prosperous new year and i hope this year would be really great for all of you. especially for the one that have their birthday in january. so have a really nice day and wish you all healthy and lucky.



for Glenn Schijf and Will Beekman

bueno. muchas felicitates por todo, esperanzo este año es mucho mucho mejor.
para mi es un año excelente. Salud

greeting people from the place where they cultivate the grapes and produce the finest malbec of the whole argentina and maybe the whole world too. i don´t really care about the statistic but the wines from the bodegas around mendoza are really good. also the view over the andes is really breathtaking and magnificent. along with the highest peak of south america ´aconcagua´

2 days ago went for a ride on the bicycle through the wine area of mendoza and it was good. very unlucky is we had lost a lot of time searching for bank to sack some money and also lost a lot of time by taking the wrong bus. but it was a good day though. with alot of wine. buracho

and yesterday we had a relax day on the thermal. working on my sun tan.

i also had my first new year long way from home. it was good with alot of meat and fernet with coke and wine too.

well my new year started really good here. wish the same for you all too. running out of internet time here... :)

salud y suerte

Ch´