Summary of our two months in South America

We have now spent eight weeks in South America and we have seen a lot! We have visited six different countries and we have travelled in long distance buses for about 7000 kilometers which has taken us almost 6 days. :) We have only had one alcoholic drink during our time in South America :) and you can count the times we had good food with one hand.




Peruvian woman dyeing yarn


The highlights of South America

- Bolivia; both the Amazonas and the four day tour to the mountains in Lipez
- Foz do Iguacu
- Inca trail
- the hammocks in Mancora
- rafting in Banos
- garlic shrimps in Peru
- avocados and mangos
- thai food in Buenos Aires
- the friendly people in Bolivia and Ecuador (except for Quito)
- organic 72 % Kallari chocolate with chili and wild cinnamon

We won't miss

- The food!
- the hospital in Peru and being afraid of eating
- local people selling just about anything in the buses and giving long speeches about everything from God to healhty nutrition
- the curvy roads in the mountains where 200 kilometers busride took closer to ten hours
- Dimitrios
- traffic in big cities
- locals charging us the gringo price

Just weird things

- people putting popcorn and dried bananas in their soups in Ecuador
- ordering food and getting it with both rice and fries every single time
- a hamburger that had chips as a filling in Brazil
- people using scarfs for about everything, as suitcases, as bags, as clothing instead of jackets, tying babies onto their backs
- people yelling at us in the streets the only words they know in english (i love you, hello, good morning, will you marry me)
- giving our fingerprints before boarding a long distance bus and having bus attendants
- all the restaurants were closed in Florianopolis on a Sunday
- native english speakers having trouble understanding where this argentinian guy was from cos he pronounced the name of the country as they do in Argentina (the kiwi woman just asked "oh Argentina, where is that?" and realised what country it was after the guy told him that three times and pronounciating the name in different ways so that she would understand him)

Horror stories that happened to the people we met

- British couple who stayed in the same dorm as we in Buenos Aires getting their valuables stolen (including their passports) in the dorm
- a guy being kidnapped in Cusco (!)
- a guy being robbed the very first day on his trip
- a guy entering a party in Colombia and the first thing he saw was a dead body in the first floor as the party was still going on on the second floor (with people knowing about the body, according to the Columbians es la vida)
- a girl jogging on the beach during daytime in Mancora and getting robbed by three men with knives
- a whole hostel in Rio getting robbed by men with machine guns




Yammy fruit salad (costs less than 1 euro in Peru)


Next stop LA!