The Final Post

What an amazing experience these world travels have been. I have met hundreds of great people from all over the globe, who I will never forget. But all good times come to an end and unfortionately the end is tomorrow. My Birthday was great we went out and got some amazing south american bbq. Today we celebrated my birthday by jumping 10,000ft out of an airplane which was pretty fricken sweet! These 9weeks have just flown on by but wow what an experience. From the beautiful people of Buenos Aires ,and the world peace buddy bears to literaly the end of the world in Ushuaia- El calafate to see the amazing Perito Mereno Glacier- with our amazing aussi friends, The Chilaen Navimag adventure- Camping in the Andes(wet) Mendoza-Rosario-Iguazu-and many more places now its time to hop on a flight and head home. IM FREAKEN excited to get home for the summer!

Thanks for all the great comments hope you enjoyed reading up on my great South American Adventures. CANT WAIT TO SEE YOU ALL.

Ciao!

MIKE

I think we ate people last night

....not really but we had buss food which is probably similar. It was blah......

It Was in one of the hostels just a random funny sign.

We camped in this amazing park

As we get closer to the end of our journey we are trying to cram in as much as possible. The last post I wrote was in Mendoza we had just arrived off the long haul buss from San Juinin(Don't go there it sucks). Any ways Mendoza is the wine country of Argentina. Many people come all around the world just to taste the wines of Mendoza. The first day we just hung out and cruised around the city. The Next day our Aussie. buddy Sara arrived Aaron Sara and I went to a very small aquarium and snake exhibits (not really large enough to be called a zoo. Nothing really all that exciting. The following day we hired a far and drove all up in the Mountains of Mendoza and saw the Inca ruins. They were covered in kind of a yellow slime which was created by the sulfur and ash from local volcanic activity. We originally planned to stay the last night but our Vineyard bike tour was canceled due to the fact the tour company's minimum was not met. So after watching movies earlier in the day (Australia,Slum Dog) with our new found Argentinian friend we said our good buys again. Then Aaron and I hoped on a buss to Rosario which was several hours.

Mendoza
The Inca Ruins In Mendoza Sara and I discovered on one of our adventures
Little Market in Mendoza mountains

Very Amazing Rosario Monument
AMAZINGLY MASSIVE BEAUTIFUL ROSARIO MONUMENT.

Rosario was not to exciting except for the amazing monument. The day we got in to Rosario there was a 1/2 marathon which would have been fun if I would have known several weeks earlier. The 2ND day we walked around the massive markets that went for miles of people selling all there arts and home made souvenirs and stuff. I originally planned so see Sarah at some point but we were running out of time and Sarah had other things going on. The next morning we took another 18hour buss to Iguazu. I'm not sure why all the buses seem to be 18hours but that's just the distance to many of the far places. But this buss was by far the worst. They were blasting the air conditioning with no blanket and the seats didn't go back much at all and I think we probably were eating the people who died on the buss the night before for dinner. (haha not really but definitely seemed that way.) The whole way I was freezing my ass off.

Iguazu Falls Was Dividing Brazil and Argentina

IGUAZU
We Finlay arrived in iguazu falls. We went to a hostel which wanted us to come back later and check in, which is usually the case but we were eager to get to the falls. So we just walked about 5 minutes back to the buss station and stored our huge bags for the day and decided to hop a buss to the Iguazu nation park. Once we arrived we got on a small train which took us to the main fall which is in the new Indiana Joans Movie. The falls were dry because there has been a drought but we didn't notice at all but lots of the locals were pretty shocked at how low the falls were. We continued to walk around the park and i heard a ruffling in the palm tree and noticed a cat with a snout was falling out of the tree. It was a Coati! Lots of them. We then continued to descend down to the base of the falls where we took a boat across to a very small island where I was please to dive into the 3ft deep place for tourists to swim. It was amazing getting wet after being in the hot 85-90ish F humid weather. After walking a long while we wondered around and saw they had a buffet with live music, which was a litte pricey for Argentina and our budgets but we worked way to hard to come to Iguazu we figured we better treat our selves, and the food was DAMN good. As the day turned into night we got on the buss back to La Terminal where guess what we did next?................... We decided not to stay the night and take a buss to Buenos Aries ... and YES it did take 18 hours. With a nice hot meal melenase and rice YUMMY with a good movie in a nice cozy Camma (Chair folds out) with a pillow and a blanket. Within the first hour we began to watch 21 which is a great movie by the way. I couldn't have been happier. I soon was out like a rock and woke up in Buenos Aires.

Today it has been raining all day since our arrival and I have just been hanging out not doing much just taking it easy. Tomorrow I'm off to explore Buenos Aires again I'm excited. As for school I have completed all the work I have on me With A's WOO HOO so once I get home I get rewarded with lots more... YIPPEE
You Could Take a boat under this part of the fall and get really wet!

The Coati Sliding/Falling out of the tree
CIAO LOVE AND MISS YOU ALL LOTS~

Mike

Parque Nacional Lanin, Junine De los Andes, Mendoza

Hola Amigos! This morning we arrived in Mendoza off our long haul buss from Junin De los andes (18hrs) It was not bad at all because it was night perfect time for a good sleep! 5 days before that Our good Aussi. Friends droped us off in Parque Nacional Lanin and me and Aaron camped for 5 days. The first 3 nights we stayes in a campsight on the lake rite under the volcano. We went on many hikes to the waterfalls that were coming from the volcano. 3 days later we hiked 2 miles from where we were carying our packs, mines 1/2 my body weight to a little picknick area with a bell on the beach. As soon as we rang the bell a little old man came out across the lake and paddled across to get us. We were then taken to a little camp ground across the lake where we camped for 2 nights. The first night was great we hikes all over the little are and were lead to a little cove on the lake nothing really that exciting,except for the home made emphenadas and bread the little family made for us. And having a conversation and me saying "im really happy it didnt rain that really would have sucked" But as the day progressed into night it began to poor down rain. Within the first hour I was shoveling water out of my tent with a small tupper where container. And every item I owned was soaked with water. Once we got to junin I had to try and dry all my stuff out as much as possible becuase it was just adding more weight to my 65lb pack which is not what I wanted. And now were in Mendoza for the next 3days.

Here is a map of most of the cities I have been to not sure how well it will turn out.

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