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Dog walkers = Paseadores de perros Buenos Aires
18 Reviews More than anything else this is a status symbol. Those that can afford it pay a dog walker to take their dog out and exercise. The arrangement must vary because some of the dog walkers seem to spend...
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Beach Rio de Janeiro
30 Reviews When you are in Rio you quickly realize that we all love the beach, no matter if the weather is fine or not, but we always find any reason to be close by the sea. Even when the sea is flat you will...
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Local Traditions Cusco
11 Reviews There are little ceramic bulls on all the rooftops in the Sacred Valley. They are supposed to bring good luck, and fertility, to the household. Many roofs had a cross between the bulls. Some roofs...
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Portuguese needed... or not? São Paulo
5 Reviews it's difficult to travel here without knowing some rudimentary Portuguese (even Spanish helps a lot! for some reason most Brasilian/Portuguese people can understand Spanish, but not the other way...
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Bahian dress Salvador da Bahia
4 Reviews When you enter Pelourinho in Salvador you’ll be met by baiana women wearing traditional Bahian dresses. The outfit of a baiana woman is turban, starched skirts of colourful pattern, shawl over the...
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Information / Sources Machu Picchu
6 Reviews You probably have read this again and again in the Peru travel guides, but it's true --- Burping publicly is considered very offensive, disrespectful and rude when in Peru. Here in USA, one of my...
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Cultural Tips Caracas
48 Reviews Allow me to quote myself (hhhaHAHhahahaAh) in Spanish: "Ha quedado ampliamente demostrado que para ser Presidente de Venezuela lo único que se necesita tener son signos vitales". That is...it has been...
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Mate: A strong herbal tea Montevideo
8 Reviews Le mate est un incontournable en Uruguay, il fait partie de la vie de tous les jours. Il peut se boire seul, mais c'est surtout une boisson de partage. Drinking mate is normaly with friend, in a...
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Traditions and festivals La Paz
6 Reviews La Paz was celebrates Carnivale in late February, and shops in a two-block area of downtown sell elaborate costumes and masks. The costumes are very expensive, and some people rent them instead. (I...
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Thumbs Up! Speak Portuguese Manaus
3 Reviews Brazil is not a bilingual country and, in Manaus, as well as the rest of Brazil, most people are not fluent in English or any foreign language. In shops and turistic points you' ll probably find...
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Tango Buenos Aires
29 Reviews Everywhere you go in Buenos Aires there is someone performing Tango on the street. Crowds gather, the music play, the dancers put on their show in full dance regalia...... If you stop to watch; then...
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Cachaça and Caipirinha Rio de Janeiro
3 Reviews Cachaca is a spirit native to Brazil and is distilled from fresh sugarcane juice. Considered a member of the rum family, it is lighter than other rums which are molasses based. Cachaca has a light,...
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Local Drinks Cusco
8 Reviews A Pisco Sour is a cocktail containing pisco (8 parts), lemon or lime juice (4 parts), egg whites 1, simple syrup (3 parts), and bitters 1 dash. All but the bitters are shaken vigorously and the...
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Good food ! São Paulo
3 Reviews The city's Italian community is large and vibrant, and much of their culture has found its way into the daily lives of every paulista (i.e. someone from São Paulo). However, the Italian influence is...
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Bahian Food Salvador da Bahia
7 Reviews Bahian cuisine has the influence of Portuguese, African and Indian cultures with a predominance of local exotic ingredients. Is characterized by the generous use of malagueta chili peppers and dende...
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Llamas Machu Picchu
5 Reviews There are 16 llamas in Machu Picchu, with colorful pompoms on their ear tags—I think they serve as lawn mowers on the terraces. They limit the llamas to 16—if a baby is born, the oldest or sickest one...
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Old Caracas (Centro) Caracas
5 Reviews Native house of the Liberator Located between the corners of San Jacinto and Traposos, it is the place where the 24 of June of 1783 were born Simón Antonio of the Santísima Trinidad Bolivar Palacios...
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Street artists/art Montevideo
2 Reviews This man draws with smuts; he works at Mercado del Puerto, and his pieces are really good. Este hombre hace dibujos a la carbonilla; trabaja en el Mercado del Puerto, y sus obras son realmente...
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local people Manaus
3 Reviews from the Manaus Region, have become very much aware of their Heritage and try to preserve their way of life and culture. much of their land has been confiscated, burned and left the tribes on a knifes...
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Taste mate Buenos Aires
18 Reviews You will see people waiting at the bus stop with a thermos in their hand. You wonder if they are taking their coffee with them or something like that. It's totally common. Its usually people taking...
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Local Food Cusco
7 Reviews We had to try some and it did taste like a cross between chicken and pork. It's a delicacy and is usually the most expensive thing on the menu. Even though it tasted rgood especially the crispy...
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Fitas Salvador da Bahia
5 Reviews I went to Salvador in 2007 and had my wrist covered in these beautiful Bahia Wish Bracelets. Long story short, I long ago forgot about them and the story behind them until I recently came across them...
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Parillas Montevideo
1 Review One of the great things that Uruguay shares with its northern and southern neighbours Brazil and Argentina is the love of meat. The number of excellent steakhouses or parillas is infinite, and the...
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fishing Manaus
1 Review fishermen at the port of Belem...the main income source for many in the 70s, has been still is I suppose, a spectaculare pasttime for tourist, when the Fishermen brought their catch home in the late...
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Personal experiencies with Argentinians Buenos Aires
16 Reviews First, let me say that we meet Adalina twice. Once in Cementerio de la Recoleta and the other time at the Jardin Botanico. We were walking around the cementary when Ferni and I said we wondered if...
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Christmas is held there very close to family traditions. The city is richly decorated and main sights are illuminated at nightand try these season's favorite Queque de Pascua, Cola de Mono buy them at pasteleria Mood at Louis Pasteur 5393 there are parties celebration in many hotels, the San Francisco is famous for them. Any special event you can write the local govt in Santiago at santiago@munistgo.clFor new years go to Castillo Hidalgo,its a happeninghope it helps
As many South Americans have their roots in Spain some cultural customs are similar to the Spanish. Generally speaking the South Americans are more easy going than their European counterparts. There are a few unwritten rules that you should be aware of.It is considered rude to chuck an object to someone, but should be handed to them directly.If someone is having a conversation with you and steps closer to you it would be considered rude to step back.At meal times don't help yourself to the last portion of chicken or whatever, ask first if anyone would like it. Not asking would be considered rude or greedy.Do not mention a person's faults or mistakes in front of a crowd. Pull him to one side and mention the problem in private to avoid losing face.
Have you ever heared of "Islas Malvinas" ? When taking a look at the inscriptions of maps, books or postcards in Argentina you will hardly ever find the expression "Falkland-Islands" but always instead the name "Islas Malvinas"! That is the local name for the Falkland Islands and in Fireland and other areas of Argentina you will find in almost every village and town a monument for the soldiers, who were fighting for them just a few years ago. The monument in my pictures here is the one in Rio Grande, it is actually a series of monuments along the main road N3 and is also the wall of the local army barracks.Take a look at any map in Argentina, the Falkland islands will always be written there "Islas Malvinas (Arg.)" - just like they would be part of Argentina and GB would have lost the war...
When driving around in Tierra del Fuego / Fireland you will see a natural phenominon in many places: old Iron might have a tiny little bit of rust, but even after decades it still looks pretty the same. And so you will see there cars and other machineries standing somewhere in the landscape, rusting just a bit but not thrown away. There are several reasons for that, first of all the fact maybe that once such a machinery was taken to the end of the world with a lot of shipping-costs,they might still sell some of its parts as spareparts to someone or use them for other machineries.All of these vehicles are displayed in the garden around the Misión Salesiana de Santo Domingo, where I took all of these pics they might also serve to explane some functions to the pupils of the school of agricultureThe locomovil in my main picture is more than 100 years old and still not falling apart like it...
Reserve some extra money for a special souvenir, when you are lucky to be able to visit the San Blas Islands off the coast of Panama. Molas are these works of their art called, and the native ladies fix such molas to the front and to the back of their costumes, but they sell them also like pictures / paintings to the tourists.These are cloths, with different colors, sewed and fixed in a very special way stripe by stripe.I bought a lot of them and a few of them are shown in my pictures here.Some of them are shown behind glass in my home and some others were tranferred into great & interesting cushions !
Here I have a for "latinos" probably well known list of peruvian slang meanings...- El Peruano no se emborracha: ¡se mete una bomba! - EL Peruano no saluda: te dice ¡Hola won! - El Peruano no tiene amigos: tiene patas - El Peruano no se cae: se saca la mierda - El Peruano no se burla: se caga de risa - El Peruano no está enamorado perdidamente: está templado hasta el culo - El Peruano no sale con una chica: tiene un plancito - El Peruano no está con una mujer sólo por el sexo: está enchuchado - El Peruano no convence: tira floro - El Peruano no se lanza: se avienta - El Peruano no besuquea: chapa - El Peruano no es un tipo que molesta: es una ladilla de culo - El Peruano no molesta: jode - El Peruano no se baña: se mete un duchazo - El Peruano no se molesta: se pone hecho una mierda - El Peruano no te golpea: te revienta a patadas - El Peruano no tiene amantes: tiene calentaos - El...
Mico..as they're called in Brasil...Callitrix penicillata kuhliOtto we called him, a black- tuffed-ear Mormoset, kind of Monkey. they have no thumb, five straight fingers, catching stuff looks quite a bit of an effort. but they fast.nowadays they are actually on the endagered spezies list. Otto was bought in Salvador da Bahia and lived with us for 2 years in Nova Lima, quite free, he knew where the food came from, quite tame too..but very spirited and territorial, forming monogamous partnerships and raising the young, while mum is doing....other thingsthe common Mormoset..Callitrix jaccus...is very common and when you look in the trees of Rio's suburbs, you can see many of them, and so can they.common Mormoset
While hiking, do as the locals do and chew (chacta) coca leaves. There is a whole ceremony involved in chewing too, but for your purposes just chew a quinto, meaning five leaves together folded up. It will take care of or prevent altitude sickness and will give you energy (and NO, coca leaves are not a drug and are not cocaine). It's a hard hike but not too hard either. Go slow if you get tired, take your time and if you are already working out you will be fine. It's so amazing that the magic of the place will give you all the energy you will need. Layer up, sierra weather is tricky. One minute very warm/hot the next very cold. Bring extra pairs of socks, a hat, scarf and a great attitude. Please don't forget to tip your porter.
of America Latina, Mercedes Sosa, born in Argentina,her songs voices socio-political questions, and the old native indian songs of South America. I meet her a couple of times a very kind and gifted woman, greatly respected by her peers..the voice of America Latina.references can be found on the net
of the Incas spread over more than 2000years, that's pretty awesome to me.the Altiplano and the Aymara's on of the oldest Inka tribe. their woven handgraft is pretty colourfull and widespread on the markets, often the only income they had.
Alvear Palace Buenos Aires
8 Reviews and 271 Opinions Spent three nights there in April 05. My eyes roll to the back of my head when I think of their...
Copacabana Palace Rio de Janeiro
21 Reviews and 464 Opinions A veritable Rio landmark, Copacabana Palace continues to enjoy a reputation as one of the most...
7 Reviews and 435 Opinions We did not stay here, but it was pointed out to us as the hotel used for some of the VIPs that came...
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