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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Dear fellow travellers,
I’ve been a bit slack and not doing much blogging of late.
Hope you enjoy this article about Buenos Aires the capital of Argentina.
When Buenos Aires was still just a small cluster of buildings on the Rio de la Plata, a group of Franciscan monks, known as the Padres Recoletos, established a chapel and retreat in an area of the countryside north of the city. The Recoleta sanctuary marked the high ground of the Río de la Plata valley, which was why, in the second part of the 19th century – with crowded living conditions and stagnant water in San Telmo giving rise to a series of plagues – Buenos Aires’ richer citizens decided to flee their former barrio and move there instead.< Continue Reading...
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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