Hi everyone. Well, that idea of bringing nail art to Argentina fell through. To make a long story short, Myung looked into it quite a lot. She asked around, got a lot of information, and decided it just wasn´t going to work. We were hoping it would be easier, but it isn´t. She could have made it work with a great deal of effort, and put a few thousand dollars into it with the hope of it turning out eventually, but decided against it. I don´t blame her. This project was getting harder by the day.
She´s a little low on her readily accessible money and not hot to travel anymore, so she´s decided to go back to Korea. I´ll follow her after a while. The plan now is to tour around Chilean and Argentine Patagonia for 19 days. Then, she has an airline ticket from Ushuaia, down in Terra del Fuego, for Buenos Aires. She´ll go up to Peru for some indefinite length of time. Maybe she´ll go to Bolivia or Equador. In any case, her time frame is shorter than mine. She wants to be back in Korea in two or three months and I want to stay longer. So I´m going to move more slowly through Patagonia then northern Argentina. Then I´ll probably go to Bolivia and Equador, but I might change my mind and go to Brazil. I´ve been to Peru, but I could go again.
At the end of the month we´ll go first to Bariloche, to the southwest near the Andes Mountains and the Chilean border. From there we´ll go south through Chile to El Calafate and see some sights in southern Patagonia. For a preview, search Bariloche, El Calafate and Ushuaia. For now, we are just hanging out. Last week I went to Iguazu Falls, an 18 hour bus ride from here. Myung has been there, so I went alone. The ride was actually pretty good. The bus was dreamy. I had a top deck front row seat anad slept well. Iguazu is amazing. Some places are better than their pictures. This is one of them. I think this place is better than Victoria Falls or any others I´ve seen. It´s a UNESCO World Heritage Site that deserves the acclaim. Please excuse the quality of some of these pictures. It rained the entire time I was in the park. In fact it rained so hard, it drowned yet another camera. The couple of the clearer pictures are Myung´s from when she was there on her way here from Brazil.
You can walk along the top on a series of foot bridges. This was where my camera got soaked, though it did continue to function for the rerst of the day.
Then there is an upper trail and a lower trailfrom where you get different perspectives of the different parts of the falls. A couple of these are sort of duplicates because I uploaded Myung´s too.
There are animals there also, even some panthers and jaguars, but this isn´t Africa and the numbers are low and the cats especially are ellusive. Here´s a coati and coati family. Then there are bird pictures Myung took.
I´ve got a couple of pictures from one of the botanical gardens here in town. My new camera has different proportions, I notice.
That about takes care of it for now, I think. I may blog again before leaving on Sunday for Bariloche. If not, I´ll see you when I see you. Be well, all of you.