Posted in South America on February 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Snorkelling in the
Galapagos By Anne Morris
Dear fellow travellers,
Here’s something a
little “out of the way” thank
you Anne for giving us an
insight on what’s
possible on the Galapagos.
Famous for being the part
of the studies Charles
Darwin conducted, the
Galapagos Islands has
come to be known as the
“living laboratory of
evolution”. The archipelago
is comprised of thirteen
volcanic islands, six small
islands and one hundred
and seven rocky islets. It is
considered to be the first
islands formed due to
continental drift five million
years or more ago. The
Galapagos Islands are
home to a vast amount of
wildlife and fauna. Aside
from this,
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Posted in South America on February 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Travel Brazil - A Glimpse Of
Beautiful South America By
unknown! Dear fellow
traveler, Who ever wrote
this article, I would like to
thank him or her for the
contribution. Brazil is the
largest and most populated
country in South America,
and is fifth largest in the
world in both area and
population. Portuguese is
the only official language of
Brazil which is spoken by
nearly the entire
population. In fact, Brazil is
the only country in the
America’s in which
Portuguese is their primary
language. If you look at a
map of Brazil, you can see
that it borders almost
every other South
American country except
Ecuador and Chile
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Posted in South America on November 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
The amazing Iguaçu
Waterfall One of my
journeys’s as a
traveller took me to the
Brazil and evidently to the
fascinating waterfall in
Iguaçu. The name Iguaçu
simply means "great
waters" in the local Indian
language. According to
legend, the great waterfall
was created in an outburst
of rage by the god of the
Iguaçu River, who lived in a
particularly wild and violent
area of the downpour
called the Garganta do
Diablo (Devil’s
Throat). The Falls are close
to the point where the
Iguaçu and the Parana
rivers join and the
boundaries of Brazil,
Argentina, and Paraguay
converge. The countries
are linked by two bridges:
the Amizada (Friendship)
Bridge between
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