little BIG adventure is a blog that has some quality information. It’s written by a couple traveling through South America and I’m going to be checking in on this one often.

Their posting Orcas and Welsh Tea is, you guessed it, about their trip to Peninsula Valdes and the nearby Welsh towns. Before having tea they describe their Orca sightings, something that a lot of visitors to Peninsula Valdes miss:

A number of Orcas were swimming just off the beach as the sea lions basked in the sun and the pups played in the surf. As high tide approached, the Orcas repeatedly swam right up to the beach and launched themselves out of the water onto the beach in an attempt to catch one of the sea lion pups, whilst the sea lions sat there seemingly oblivious. The Orcas were huge and it was quite an exhibition.

I’m envious! I want to spend a few months living in Cuzco. Anyway, read about the adventures of the Braunwarth family as they tackle Peru. Lots of really good, detailed info in their travel blog. The parents seemed to have shaped a great learning experience for their kids through this trip. I admire that.

Jennie is a young college graduate from the U.S. Now that alone would not make her any different from a lot of young people wandering through South America. But Jennie is on a mission, a hunt you might say, to explore the culture and history of tango music. She received a prestigious Thomas J. Watson fellowship that provides her with enough funds to travel the world for a year to research a topic of her choosing. Her blog Tango Hunter: The Latest in Extreme Travel Sports is the chronicle of her independent research into tango. It should be a very interesting. She’s just landed in Buenos Aires where she will spend a few months before heading off to Uruguay, Costa Rica (there’s tango there?), and then Europe.