Sooooo, for three days, I am safely returned from my big trip to Buenos Aires. Since I have three weeks to experience it too much and seen, as I could describe it in a long text, I'll just tell in the form of a shorthand travel diary of the last four weeks. So ...
4th January: Rio de Janeiro
- for good, if exhausting because previously little sleep, flight landed in Rio and been lucky with no entry difficulties allowed into the country
- in the hostel last Annika hit and the first time battle plan for the next two weeks designed
- made:
+ Pao Azucar (Sugar Loaf): joar, very cool view of the city, was unfortunately n bit Rain on the day
+ Christo Redentor (the famous Christ statue, her arms over Rio spreads) rather crass, a little intimidating impression conveyed by this truly riiiiiiiesige statue, also great views over the city, this time with a good view
+ to Copacabana (bedrphmtester beach in Rio) sat and drank coconut water. This is done in Brazil on every corner: Coconuts to drink up and then eat the meat - very tasty! bathed
at + beach of Ipanema
+ lots of running around the big lake looked gone the Künstleriertel Santa Theresa, the pedestrian area, etc
+ eat on the last night in Lapa (the party district of Rio) and the samba music heard in all the bars and Restaurants will be played live, there is me my first Brazilian Caipirinha risen quite to the head;)
- a total of Rio really liked me, a great, vibrant, colorful city ... the many favelas (slums) in the north of the city tarnish the image may be a little of in recent years apparently dramatic rise in crime rate Fortunately, we have even felt nciht the contrary, I have all the time actually felt very safe!
7th January: Campo Grande
- continue on to Campo Grande, a small town in Panthanalgebiet (so called the tropical southern Brazil) - 22 hour bus ride: Whew!
- Campo Grande arrived immediately booked a trip to the Panthanal, but we have another 4 hours to the Pousada (hotel / farm / hostel) into the Green travel
- So now we live for three days in the charming, small Pousada Santa Clara which is the middle of nowhere. on the first night we befriend us now with our internationally-mixed Room staff, and enjoy together the typical Brazilian food (meat, rice, beans) and the house brand of Cachaca
- next morning you go to 4:30 on Safari: astray many crocodiles !!!!!!! an incredible number!! really scary!! otherwise: toucans, deer, parrots, coatis, capybaras, etc. ...
- in the afternoon boat tour of the river, but unfortunately it poured with rain all the time - rain time stop!
- Highlight: cruising through the mud while we were allowed to stand in quietschgelben raincoats in the mud rain outside on the back of a jeep road. Meeeega has fun!
- Total That's real time ne cool experience few days n on so nervous Ranch pleasure of living in the wild, the mosquitoes have eaten us during the time, but can live with that, also we have met there really very cool people
10th January: Bolivia
- continue to Bolivia, fortunately, of any contacts with the Lady Claudine (thanks again to this point;) in time of tickets for the bus to Santa Cruz came
- Santa Cruz should It will actually continue towards Uyuni (there are the biggest salt desert in the world) go
- we however, for a distance of about 400 km nearly 16 hours have (!) used as roads in Bolivia are simply undeveloped so and the buses in Germany nciht times more likely to drive a school bus, we decided at short notice in Santa Cruz (after a durchzächten night at the station) to change our route and accordingly nciht to Uyuni (where we have again used about a half days) but to go back in the north of Argentina
- so we were unfortunately only about 48 total hours in Bolivia, have at this time, however, passes through almost the entire south and so get an impression of the country: Bolivia seemed to me crazy beautiful, green landscape everywhere, very friendly but also very very gößtenteils
poor people - which makes traveling in Bolivia, of course, simply, is that everything is so terrific cheap (for a full meal with meat, rice, salad, sauce, beans and so you pay about 1 €)
- on the other side, the country is very chaotic and unstructured: our bus to Santa Cruz for example, was simply overbooked, so that six young men sit during the entire 16 hours of night driving on bumpy roads in the narrow aisle of the course without air bus had
- despite all this I, Bolivia very much and we would have had more time, we would also like to have spent more time in the country ... well, so it went for us, then further by ...
12th January: Jujuy
- on the journey from Yacuiba (Bolivia) to Jujuy (Argentina) with our night bus we found ourselves in a more or less spectacular drug control. At the border our bus was attacked at once by a bunch of police with sniffer dogs, weapons, etc.. Apparently the bus had been smuggled in drugs (ie cocaine, Bolivia has, after all, a top Koksexporteuren the world), so all the passengers get off, can scan and had to unpack their bags, complete (Argentine police officers make themselves clearly have no idea how long it takes
a backpack to pack sent!) durwühlen again pack up and leave. In the end, even ncoh slashed the seats on the bus at random, to see whether there are in the upholstery of the chairs drugs. According to this, but then ultimately unsuccessful, night search operation at a lonely Plizeistation middle of nowhere yet so we could then proceed to 3 clock in the morning with almost three hours late. - in Jujuy we found a very, very sweet hostel in the city center, which was painted with such beautiful murals
- on the first day we wanted to make a Auflug to the famous hot springs ("Thermas del Rey) Unfortunately there was a downpour (Regenzeit!), so we naheglegenes into a Hotel fled. The hotel had a spa area by chance on the ground floor where you could also bathe in the hot springs: No sooner said than done! Annika and I have such chill 2 hours in the luxury Spaabteilung a castle hotel, while outside it rained
- through the hard downpour is the day the mountain river has risen so much that some people were swept away by the strong current. When we were on our way to the bus, we got the rescue of the police and mountain rescue service announcements. The next day in the newspaper that is fortunately no one died, but were probably several people seriously injured in hospital
- Another highlight of the tour Salt desert! (Insofar as we got our salt deserts so still nciht goods while the Bolivian, but the Argentine.) On the third day in Jujuy, we have booked a tour in the mountains. Overall, our group consisted of only 4 people and a driver who then drove us to the mountains. The way to the lying in 4170m altitude salt flats via one of the most beautiful of landscapes that I have ever seen: the "Tierra de 7 colores" (7 colors of the earth) !!!!!! Of course there were beautiful to visit.
As we then after four hours of driving finally up at the salt flats arrived, offered us a truly amazing sight! A desert of salt with a lot of small crystals from a sky-blue background. It looked really breathtakingly beautiful out there!
Up there we have then in a small, Hunzel restaurant, well actually it was more the living room of a family living there, eating.
It was a regional specialty: Llama meat! was very tasty, has taste but now nciht particularly distinguished by nem thin piece of beef, I thought. On the way down to Jujuy then again we did stop in the small village Purmamarca where Annie and I strolled at length about a little fair. There, I made a cool, colorful jerk kind of linen purchased)
- Wed evening we sat on our balcony even cooked pasta in the hostel and unterhieltenuns with a backpacker from Passau, we had met there. The girl traveled for 4 months only with a tent and backpack through South America alone. In addition, she has little money and therefore completely sher minimalist living, camping in the wilderness, hitchhiking is so far, she is still nciht bad happened to ... but I think my parents would long for this idea one years not sleep quietly;)
15th January: Cachi and Salta
- we mahcen to the south and control the station of Salta on. There we stay not long, but take the next right wiggle Zuckel bus to Cachi (a small mountain village in the north of Salta). The 5-hour bus ride up to Cachi leads breathtakingly deep gorges along the tour might be better than nothing for people afraid of heights. In addition, the bus driver veered so fast around the corners and edges of the road that he has even driven him even a oncoming car. In
Chachi we were finally only one night, because first of our money was running out and secondly nciht so much there is to see. Holder is a sweet, sleepy little village with a few restaurants, pubs and a funny old town library, in some century-old books are kept.
16th January:
- arrived back in Salta, we found a cool hostel with a roof terrace
- have then explored in a Nahcmittag the city: nice, peaceful, just tranquilo ... Salta has very beautiful churches!
- evening we had dinner at a restaurant called "Jack Viejo" in which we are all a really thick, typical Argentine meat plastered.
17th January:
- then on Sunday we boarded the bus together in the direction of Foz de Iguacu, where I got off already 2 stood earlier in Eldorado, since there took place between my seminar IERP Annika is and went on to Iguazu.
Overall it was a pretty cool trip, in which we have indeed spent much time with bus travel, waiting and queuing, but have traveled the same beautiful parts of the South American continent. Seen much, experienced much, learned a lot!
had then as I said one more week intermediate seminar in Misiones, Eldorado. The seminar, like the Capacitación at the beginning of my stay, suuuuper made a lot of fun. It was great to see again all the other volunteers, exchange ideas, to tell, etc. Overall it was good to keep times for half the time, held together to reflect and consider how it should go further in the next six months.
highlight of the seminar was definitely the trip to the "Cataratas de Iguacu" (the famous waterfalls on the Argentinian-Brazilian border)! This was seen already really wrong, to overthrow the masses of water thundering there in the depths. In addition, the waterfalls are located in a huge National Park, which means that on a day in the park can discover hundreds of wild animals.
coatis, giant spiders, and has what I like best: thousands, colorful butterflies! In the meantime, you are really a bit like Mowgli in the jungle has felt:) The last evening of our seminar was of course staged large: There was a strong punch, spontaneous music sessions and a nice round sweetheart as a great final game for the group. Pictures of this fun evening, as always, to admire the new album.
So now I'm five days has been at home in the Salalah and everyday MCIH again already. Work goes to wash clothes shopping, writing stories ... all these things waiting for me. The incredible heat, which currently dominates the city, makes addressing these things nciht just easier. Currently we have so drenched temperatures to 29/30 ° C, ie it is actually all the time - Either because they had a shower or just because you are sweating again:)
send this in mind I you a bit of warmth to cold Germany.
Take care y VIVA LA VIDA!
your already sweating Merle
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