Postcards from Argentina

 

Hola! from Rodney


Hola!!!! Hi readers from South America!!

As your traveling news correspondent I`m here for the next 5 months and what a place!!

I met my traveling partners, Craig and Joshua Evans, after the best going away party a Kangaroo ever had, with the SAC year 3 class.

Can`t say I think much of the hombre (man), but the Hijo (son) is cute. On our first night together we all kind of bonded.

I packed light, luggageand settled into the approximately 20 hours of traveling from Adelaide to Sydney, Auckland (NZ), Buenos Aires(ARG), Lima (Peru) and finally to Cusco(Peru) . Wow!!!!!!!!!! Exhausting!!!!!!! Because of the altitude, @ 3,000 meters above sea level, I could hardly catch my breath.

I tried to make the most of the relaxing time on the plane. The food was well needed. I enjoyed the refreshments but the movie was boring!!!!!!!.

After an epic journey, this is what awaited us on our arrival. machu picchuMachu Picchu, the lost city of the Incas, built in about 1480 and not discovered until 1911 by Hiram Bingham.

Most Inca ruins were destroyed by the bullying Spaniards, numbering only 285 to some 400,000 Incas.

The Incas themselves were well known bullies prior to the Spanish invasion, controlling most of South America, but these few Spanish introduced disease and trickery into the Incan vocabulary.

In the mood for a party and a little bit of Samba, it was off to sunny sugarloaf mountainRio De Janeiro. The famous Sugar Loaf Mountain was clouded over but.........our prayers were answered when the clouds cleared and Copacobana Beach revealed itself along with the beautiful harbour city of Rio de Janeiro. Beautiful!!!

copacabana beachIt`s time in this report to humbly report just how popular The Big Rodney has proven. I must say I´ve been quite the jumping Casanova. I am very popular indeed, very popular.

poolside

But even a roving reporter has to rest sometime.

And now my beloved readers, I`m off to Buenos Aires, Argentina with my traveling buddies, the Crumpy one and the Cute one.

So it´s, Chau! Adios and te mando un beso!!!!!!

The big Roadster doing it my way in South America!!!

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by
Rodney Roo

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