To the end of the world and back
First of all a quick update on where I´ve been... after the DTS I spent a couple of weeks exploring the south of Argentina. The DTS is fairly intense so they recommend you take a bit of time out before the next stage. It was a great time, 5 of us were travelling together, mainly on buses for many many hours, and it was wonderful to get to see some more of this country.
I have just completed a week of staff training here back in Buenos Aires and am now set to head northwest to Mendoza, where I´m likely to be helping out with various things, but the main one is "El Projimo", which is a ministry for children with AIDS. (Website: http://www.jucummendoza.com.ar/ - I´m afraid it´s in Spanish).
Here is a post I started writing whilst away, but I got zoned out of computer land before having time to press ´post´´...
We have spent a HUGE amount of hours on buses so far... I´ve lost count of how many. This is a very, very big country, we have realised! But the buses are good and reclining seats make it easier to sleep over night. Our first stop from Buenos Aires (after tearful goodbyes to many fellow students from the school who are heading back to their own countries) was Puerto Madyrn. It is a small, sleepy little town on the coast, and is stunningly beautiful. We saw sea lions but have yet to spot penguins, or penguinos. Rather ambitiously, we took off on a 17km bike ride the other day, thinking we could do it in the 3 hours we had, whilst doing a bit of penguin spotting on the way, but the gravely, stoney, rough roads, and the bikes with ínteresting´ gears and chains that fell off every half an hour soon put paid to that (notice I haven´t mentioned anything about our levels of fitness getting in the way of the goal!) idea! At least it was exercise...
We arrived in to El Calafate today and after 24 hours on a bus are shattered, but looking forward to a day or two here before heading to Ushuaia, the southern most permanently inhabited tip of the world. It´s getting colder and colder the further south we go, but it´s stunningly beautiful, surrounded by mountains and blue lakes...
Ushuaia turned out to be great, though the standard of the buses went downhill the further south we went, so that by the end we found ourselves on a 17-hour journey on a fairly small and cramped bus! But it´s all part of the experience and the places we saw made the journeys worthwhile...
Please forgive my recent lack of correspondence and news of late. Hopefully photos will follow on soon.
I have just completed a week of staff training here back in Buenos Aires and am now set to head northwest to Mendoza, where I´m likely to be helping out with various things, but the main one is "El Projimo", which is a ministry for children with AIDS. (Website: http://www.jucummendoza.com.ar/ - I´m afraid it´s in Spanish).
Here is a post I started writing whilst away, but I got zoned out of computer land before having time to press ´post´´...
We have spent a HUGE amount of hours on buses so far... I´ve lost count of how many. This is a very, very big country, we have realised! But the buses are good and reclining seats make it easier to sleep over night. Our first stop from Buenos Aires (after tearful goodbyes to many fellow students from the school who are heading back to their own countries) was Puerto Madyrn. It is a small, sleepy little town on the coast, and is stunningly beautiful. We saw sea lions but have yet to spot penguins, or penguinos. Rather ambitiously, we took off on a 17km bike ride the other day, thinking we could do it in the 3 hours we had, whilst doing a bit of penguin spotting on the way, but the gravely, stoney, rough roads, and the bikes with ínteresting´ gears and chains that fell off every half an hour soon put paid to that (notice I haven´t mentioned anything about our levels of fitness getting in the way of the goal!) idea! At least it was exercise...
We arrived in to El Calafate today and after 24 hours on a bus are shattered, but looking forward to a day or two here before heading to Ushuaia, the southern most permanently inhabited tip of the world. It´s getting colder and colder the further south we go, but it´s stunningly beautiful, surrounded by mountains and blue lakes...
Ushuaia turned out to be great, though the standard of the buses went downhill the further south we went, so that by the end we found ourselves on a 17-hour journey on a fairly small and cramped bus! But it´s all part of the experience and the places we saw made the journeys worthwhile...
Please forgive my recent lack of correspondence and news of late. Hopefully photos will follow on soon.
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