Buenos Aires - 2007
In July-August 2007, a fortnight after Drew was born (and after we visited him in Perth), we visited South America for our third time.
(59-days - Melbourne - Auckland - Santiago - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Iguassu Falls (Argentina and Brazil) - Buenos Aires - Salta -
Atacama Desert (Argentina and Chile) - Santiago - Quito (Ecuador) - Galapagos Islands - Quito - Bogata (Colombia) - Cartagena (Colombia)
- Bogata - Caracas (Venezuela) - Angel Falls (Venezuela) - Caracas - Santiago - Auckland - Melbourne)
We flew from Melbourne to Auckland (3.5 hours)
and then to Santiago in Chile (12 hours) with LAN Chile.
Two excited travellers on the Qantas 747 flying from Melbourne to Auckland.
After 4 hours at Santiago airport we flew to Buenos Aires.
The beautiful French Consulate is in a prominent position in Buenos Aires.
Margaret says that she will live in Buenos Aires for part of the year and supplement her superannuation
by walking dogs for the going rate of $25 per dog per month.
Eva Peron's mausoleum in the Cementiro de Recoleta.
María Eva Duarte (1919 – 1952), better known as María Eva Duarte de Perón, Eva Perón and Evita, was the wife of
Argentine President Juan Perón (1895–1974) and First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952.
She became powerful within the pro-Peronist trade unions, primarily for speaking on behalf of labor rights.
She received great support from the low-income and working-class Argentines who were referred to as descamisados or "shirtless ones".
She suffered much opposition from the nation's military and bourgeoisie, and she died from cancer at the age of 33.
The presidential palace, Casa Rosada.
Eva Peron energized adoring crowds from the balcony here during her heyday in the 1940s.
Madonna also crooned from here for the film, Evita.
Temaiken is an open range zoo about 55km out of Buenos Aires
The first time we have seen a puma
After 5 nights in Buenos Aires we flew to Iguassu Falls and crossed into Brazil.
We stayed at the Hotel Tropical Das Cataratas where we met Ben and Crystal.
They had been travelling the world for a long time and they travelled here from northern Brazil.
We travelled with them back into Argentina, staying 2 nights at the Sheraton Hotel in the Iguassu Falls National Park.
After our great time at Iguassu we flew to Buenos Aires for a night.
After that we had a flight to Salta in northern Argentina.
In July-August 2007, a fortnight after Drew was born (and after we visited him in Perth), we visited South America for our third time.
(59-days - Melbourne - Auckland - Santiago - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Iguassu Falls (Argentina and Brazil) - Buenos Aires - Salta -
Atacama Desert (Argentina and Chile) - Santiago - Quito (Ecuador) - Galapagos Islands - Quito - Bogata (Colombia) - Cartagena (Colombia)
- Bogata - Caracas (Venezuela) - Angel Falls (Venezuela) - Caracas - Santiago - Auckland - Melbourne)
We flew from Melbourne to Auckland (3.5 hours)
and then to Santiago in Chile (12 hours) with LAN Chile.
Two excited travellers on the Qantas 747 flying from Melbourne to Auckland.
After 4 hours at Santiago airport we flew to Buenos Aires.
The beautiful French Consulate is in a prominent position in Buenos Aires.
Margaret says that she will live in Buenos Aires for part of the year and supplement her superannuation
by walking dogs for the going rate of $25 per dog per month.
Eva Peron's mausoleum in the Cementiro de Recoleta.
María Eva Duarte (1919 – 1952), better known as María Eva Duarte de Perón, Eva Perón and Evita, was the wife of
Argentine President Juan Perón (1895–1974) and First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952.
She became powerful within the pro-Peronist trade unions, primarily for speaking on behalf of labor rights.
She received great support from the low-income and working-class Argentines who were referred to as descamisados or "shirtless ones".
She suffered much opposition from the nation's military and bourgeoisie, and she died from cancer at the age of 33.
The presidential palace, Casa Rosada.
Eva Peron energized adoring crowds from the balcony here during her heyday in the 1940s.
Madonna also crooned from here for the film, Evita.
Temaiken is an open range zoo about 55km out of Buenos Aires
The first time we have seen a puma
After 5 nights in Buenos Aires we flew to Iguassu Falls and crossed into Brazil.
We stayed at the Hotel Tropical Das Cataratas where we met Ben and Crystal.
They had been travelling the world for a long time and they travelled here from northern Brazil.
We travelled with them back into Argentina, staying 2 nights at the Sheraton Hotel in the Iguassu Falls National Park.
After our great time at Iguassu we flew to Buenos Aires for a night.
After that we had a flight to Salta in northern Argentina.
