Friday, 13 July 2007

Tango Session - Argentina

Some received photos from Buenos Aires Tango happening
(copyright reserved)






professional:


almost professional:


Rangitoto island - New Zealand

Rangito island wilderness only 30 min by ferry from Auckland






600 years old lava everywhere:



from the summit:



Thursday, 12 July 2007

Auckland - New Zealand

Auckland's downtown Queen Street is paradise for backpackers.
I think there are at least ten big multifloor hostel buildings and everywhere are restaurants, backpacker travel agencies, shops, pubs, fastfoods.

I went to Auckland museum located in the centre of Domain park.
My new antitheft camera had problems in dark interier so dark photos.

Canoe (real size)


War Canoe (real size)


Airplane ZERO (real size)














Tuesday, 10 July 2007

Auckland - New Zealand

Yesterday was the first ugly rainy day since I started in Sao Paulo on 15 June.
So I spent the day mostly at the hostel trying to get some information from tons of free booklets, prospects a presentations of NZ information, adventure trips, bus routes, canyoning, cave exploring, sailing, diving...

It's a little bit shock to come from South America and see not so many people in the towncentre, so much tourist information, organized semaphore roads and so high prices.

Monday, 9 July 2007

Auckland - New Zealand

I took the plane on 7/7/ at 23:00 from Santiago and landed on 9/7 at 3:00 in Auckland.
Quite long flight, they said it should take around 12 hours :) .

That economy airplane seat and 8 hours time difference is quite bad. Yesterday I was the first that saw sunrise on 9 July, then I went to see the town centre, ordered coffee instead of (I wanted to say) tea, I said gracias instead of thanks everywhere, I got confused in the city because of driving on the left-hand side of the road and at 6pm it was enough to go to bed.

Friday, 6 July 2007

Valparaíso - Chile

Valparaíso - UNESCO World Heritage Site







Funicular, one of many still working (ride 0,2 US$)



Valparaíso is a relatively small and attractive city.
And the hostels are not so crowded by tourists as in Santiago.
I spent 3 nights(3x8 US$) in empty large colonial house hostel.

Today I took the train to the city of Viña del Mar, but there is nothing to see if you are not the fan of shopping malls and large casinos.

Tomorrow I am going to leave Latin America, flying to New Zealand.
From tomorrow only English language !!!

Thursday, 5 July 2007

Valparaíso - Chile

I took the bus (6 US dollars) and after more than two hours we´ve come to Valparaíso (political and cultural city, seaport as well) on the coastline.

National Congress:



Job on the street:



British Imperium memory: