Ria is a backpacker making her way through South America. Her blog is quite descriptive with a lot of photos from Mendoza to Rio and all sorts of other hot spots in South America. She writes about arriving in Huaraz: right off the bus she’s bombarded by taxi drivers and tour operators (sigh).
In Huaraz [...]
Time Out editor Matt Chesterton is one of the funniest people I know in Buenos Aires. For hotelchatter.com he examines lodging options in Puerto Madryn & Península Valdés:
of all the major Argentine tourist centres, the Patagonian Atlantic coast is probably the one with the worst, or perhaps more accurately the least interesting, hotel [...]
So, I woke up today and checked CNN online to find this ridiuculous headline: “Bush makes quick stop in violence-plagued Colombia”. Has anyone at CNN been to Colombia recently?
Tourists in Colombia will encounter a surprisingly safe place to travel. Yes, there is a massive security presence and military checkpoints along the roads. But Colombia is [...]