🎥 From Puerto Iguazú to Colonia, Uruguay

April 21, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Notre trajet de Puerto Iguazú à Colonia en Uruguay. Avec plusieurs tentatives de traversée du Río La Plata. Our trip from Puerto Iguazú to Colonia, Uruguay, with a few attempts to cross the Río La Plata. ~~~

🇺🇸 Bellas Artes Buenos Aires

April 21, 2016.Reading time 5 minutes.

Fresh from the jungle filled with butterflies and waterfalls, we arrived to a dreary, windy Buenos Aires. The plan was to catch a ferry that would take us from Buenos Aires to Colonia, Uruguay, with about a 45-minute window to get from the airport to the boat-port. Our rush was for naught; high winds, choppy […]

🇺🇸 Puerto Iguazú

April 17, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

We had another day in Puerto Iguazú before flying back to Buenos Aires, so we headed to the wildlife refuge Guira-Oga where wild animals are rehabilitated and released if possible, cared for if not. We headed to the animals via John Deere tractor pull. It almost looks like it’s waving at the camera Trios of […]

🎥 Iguazú Falls

April 16, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Probablement notre plus beau souvenir de cette aventure dans les Amériques. Un détour aux magnifiques et impressionnantes Chutes d’Iguazú. Notre journée à été pleine de soleil, de cascades, d’arcs-en-ciel et de papillons. Magique ! Probably our most beautiful memory of this entire adventure in the Americas. A trip to the magnificent and impressive Iguazù Falls […]

🇺🇸 Cataratas de Iguazú

April 16, 2016.Reading time 9 minutes.

Click here for a video of our day at the Falls. I had wanted to visit Iguazú Falls for over a decade, so it was a dream realized when we made the two-hour flight from Buenos Aires to Iguazú and spent a full day at Iguazú National Park. The pilot looped around the waterfalls twice […]

🇺🇸 La Boca

April 14, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

Our last day in Buenos Aires, we headed to the iconic La Boca neighborhood. The neighborhood sits at the mouth of the Riachuelo River, (hence its name La Boca – The Mouth) its brightly-colored Caminito Street La Boca’s biggest draw. Even the Pope was hanging out in El Caminito Calico Cat stop Apparently the day […]

🇺🇸 Tango in the Capital

April 13, 2016.Reading time 5 minutes.

Where there is a walking tour to be done, we’re doing it. A first sunny day in Buenos Aires, we headed out to the capital center. Buenos Aires metro Congress Back in Paris! Rodin and Hausmannian-esque architecture Eva Perón over the Avenida 9 de Julio Once Iguazú Falls was chosen as one of the New […]

🇺🇸 Mariano Mores

April 13, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

April 13, 2016 After sleeping in one Wednesday, we motivated each other to walk around a new neighborhood in Buenos Aires. Though the day started out overcast, we had a mostly sunny walk through the port neighborhood El Caminito and then the neighborhood San Telmo. We had been walking for a few hours so we […]

🇺🇸 Buenos Aires

April 9, 2016.Reading time 6 minutes.

From Mendoza we hopped on a two-hour flight to Buenos Aires, certainly the more attractive option to 14 hours by bus. It was April 1st, and we settled into our home for the next two weeks. The Floralis Genérica, a flower sculpture in the United Nations Park. The 18-ton structure opens its petals in the […]

🇺🇸 Anti door-slammers

April 7, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

April 7, 2016 Chileans and Argentinians are crazy about closing car doors softly. Apparently the rest of the world slams them shut, a noise that offends even the most devout reggaetone follower. In Santiago and Buenos Aires, we’ve not only been told to close the doors more softly, taxis have stickers all over to remind […]