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About me, the traveler Travelogues Trip 1 - India, Nepal, and China Trip 2 - Southeast Asia Trip 3 - Mongolia to Eastern Europe Trip 4 - Middle South America Trip 5 - Southern Africa Trip 6 - Scandinavia, the Baltics, and Greenland Trip 7 - The Balkans Trip 8 - Morocco and Southern Spain Trip 9 - Western India Trip 10 - Outer Indochina Trip 11 - Ethiopia and Dubai Trip 12 - Iceland Trip 13 - Japan Trip 14 - Caucasus Trip 15 - Central & East Asia Trip 16 - Inner Indochina and Japan Tales From the Tour (a running travelogue) Top-five lists New York City excursions Cheap East Coast bus alternatives Links
| Trip 4 - Middle South America25 October 2000 to 28 November 2000It is difficult to cover all of South America in a month, especially when the five places you most want to go are at five geographical extremes of the continent. Realizing that it would be foolish to try to take in Machu Picchu, the Tierra del Fuego, the Amazon, the Iguaçu Falls, and Salvador da Bahia - especially traveling by land - in less than five weeks, I decided to put the focus on the central regions. I balked at the idea of a trip with no train rides (except for the hokey tourist train from Machu Picchu), but I was surprised by the comfort, speed, and - with one exception - reliability of the buses. And on this trip I could speak the language virtually everywhere: All that high-school Spanish came back to me, and it wasn't too much of a stretch to be able to read a little Portuguese.
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