arica(northchile)arequipa(mountains peru)and Lima(capital)

alrighttt. Well Joel just joined me a day ago or so and we are having a great time. Its fun to have someone to share good times with that you have known your whole life. alright ill back up. From Santiago I took a 30 hour bus to Arica where I met some very nice british people that i spent a few hostls with. Arica was nice but we wanted to get into Peru so onwards we went. Crossing the boarder from chile to peru in a taxi is kinda funny and scary. I can tell you more details if you ask me. well from the boarder town we took a 7 hour bus to arequipa which is a beatiful city in the andes surrouned by volcanoes. That was a sweet place but I had tohead up toLima to meet Joel and that was a good 16 hours or so. Neways Lima was good butnow we got a 23 hour bus to Cuzco and can hopefully see the ruins of machu picchu. ttyl gota go

to the west coast! ( cordoba and Santiago)

okay I am not really sure when it was that I wrote last in this thingy. Well this is how it goess. After Iguazu and seeing the falls I took a twenty some hour busride south to Cordoba. Cordoba is a university town of Argentina. Lots of schools here and smart good looking ladies lol. I was only there a few minutes when I met this really cool guy from vancouver. Dan was heading to Chile pretty soon and I sorta felt like checkin out chile so I decided to go with him to the bus station right then and there to get tickets. Back on the bus lol. Well Dan and I had another twenty some hours to Santiago but this was a scenic drive. Through the Andes. it was amazing and Ill put some pics up. On the bus we met a girl who lives in Santiago or a suburb of it neways. She said her rents were still gone for a bit so we could spend a night there. It was fun and she knew no english but fortunately for me Dan is really good at spanish and english aswell so he did translations. She had friends over that night so It was a long night of not much sleep. The reason Dan was in Santiago though was through his college program. He is doing a 5 month or so program to study here in Santiago. The first couple of days of orientation he had a hotel room paid for so I decided to tag along lol. I got a free nights stay in the rich area of downtown Santiago in a sweet hotel at the top floor. Good Views! yeaa. Well I secretly camped there for a night and it was a cool experience. The next morning though we both agreed that it was time for me to continue on and get back to backpacking lol. So I found a really sweet hostel in a different area of Santiago. Today is my second day here and its just been raining all day and is really gloomy outside. Kinda sucks really. Well I only needed to wait a few hours to get on the free comps but now Im here so its all good. Free laundry here aswell...hehe bout time to wash my sweater. Might be needing it soon. I did buy a bus ticket for tomorrow night thats about a thirty hour trip. Oiiii.. oh myyy. yea but its two nights accomadations saved lol. Thats always a plus. Well my bus is going to Arica which is in the northern desert region of chile right before the peruvian boarder. It is coastal so I hope to do a couple days of beaching. we shall seee. After that I wanna do peru and some bolivia posibly. Someone I worked with last summer in the Parks of glacier national park actually is living and working in La Paz so He said I could stop by. Still some adventures coming up so I ll try and keep ya posted... If I feel like it lol. Later!

-Adrien

The Iguazusss

Alright. There is this place called Foz do Iguacu on the brazilian side of the boarder and Porto de Iguazu on the argentine side. The cities are sorta connected or atleast very close and you can takae city buses across and you just stop for customs. I spent two nights on the brazilian side before coming over at a really nice hostel. I could have stayed longer but I wanted out of brazil. They had a sweet breakfast of fruits and grill cheese sandwiches and ps2 a swimming pool, a gym and hammocks. Oh and a place to play your own music by the bar. It was cool. Then I came over here to the Argentine side and went to see the waterfalls. they kicked butt but the hostel sucks real bad. Today I will leave to go south I think but I am not sure where. I think I might just check out of myhostel and go to the bus station. From there I will pick a ticket and then just go with it. Sorta random. Wanna get some distance behind me so I think I will do a 24 ride or longer. lol. So mendoza or cordoba. Back to the same ol crap breakfasts here though. Bread and butter lol. oh well. Things are good and its always like 36 degrees during the day up here so I am ready for slightly cooler temperatures further south. Alright this is it for now so soon I shall be in the Andes. I hope. Or near by lol. Bye Bye

-Adrien

well this is brazil

Oh k everyone. I know that this isnt exactly what you might have expected me to say about brazil but this is how I have taken it in so far. I have been here for only about three days now and I have gotten a feel for it. I knew it was going to be more expensive than Argentina but this is a little bit more than I was expecting. My first evening and fallowing day I spent as much money that would last me over a week in Buenos Aires. I know there are cheaper places to eat that I have found now but it still is quite expensive. I was paying like 12 cad dollars for a meal . no wonder there are so many homeless people in these cities. Sao paulo was huge and Rio is amazing but it is so superficial and full of bodybuilding speedo strapped fake bods. well in otherwords just a lot of people out to impress. And the language hasnt really taken me either. I am in this continent to learn spanish and this place is just,..... weird for language. Portuguese sounds like a mix of hebrew, japanese, french, and spanish. Origato is thank you in japanese. Gracias is in spanish, and obrigado is thank you in portuguese. Well there you go. its weird. I met a really cool guy named Ira but its too bad that I am probably leaving soon to head back into the spanish speaking world because there is nothing holding me here. My first morning here in Rio de Janiero I decided to go with a handful of brits to a ol fashion football game at an irish pub. Big mistake. While im writing this they are still walking through the room and calling me the big woman who wasnt gettin piss drunk offa beer at 1045 am while becoming soccer hooligans lol. Oh well it was still a good day and They are only kiddin, I can tell. I know that I want to see a couple more things in Rio and then I want to leave ASAP because I really am spening lots. My next bus trip is about the cost of a week and a half of hostels in BA. Tomorrow morning I am going on a Favela tour of Rio. Its where the movie "city of god" takes place. I am very excitied. I was notified that its also the superbowl lol. Well I figured out that uploading pictures takes a long time so I will just post some links of other photos of Rio of things that I say today. http://www.innrio.com/images/Arpoador_Ipanema.jpg http://www.verinha2.de/images_01/rio_cristo_copyright_verinha.jpg http://rioadventuretours.com/images/Rio_Sugarloaf_1.jpg

well thats about it. Its really hard to see the christ statue ( cristo Redentor) or soemthing like that. I think that he is ashamed of one of the most sinful cities next to Las Vegas lol. Always covering himself with clouds. Well I will write again later but right now it is tough to find computers in hostels for a good price. I will leave brazil soon. dont worry.

This is it for now. -Adrien