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Valparaíso Metro

From a tour of Merval in July, 2012

: Merval maintenance

: Bus mas Metro transfer at Limache

: Riding along in the cab

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Sights of Santiago

: Plaza Italia

: La Moneda

: Museo de la Memoria

: View from my room

: Ruben Dario

: Parque Uruguay

: Buenos Aires misses me

: Looters after the University of Chile’s upset win over the Catholic University

: Chatting with Transport and Telecommunications Minister Pedro Pablo Errázuriz

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Buses of Buenos Aires

: School bus

: School minibus

: Buses at Retiro

: Facultad de Derecho

: La Salada

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I flew directly from Cape Town to Buenos Aires in April. Riding the bus from Ezeiza Airport to the Manuel Tienda Leon bus station was a good introduction to the city. Usually the trip takes about half an hour, but we were sitting in traffic for twice that amount of time because of a corte, a street closure for a protest march. Realizing that walking to their destinations would be faster than staying on the bus, many of the passengers asked the bus driver to let them off before we reached the terminal. He refused until a number of the passengers started calling friends on their phones and complaining about being kidnapped. I found this exaggeration to be typically porteño; later during my stay, for example, I was warned about a massive hailstorm that turned out to be a light drizzle.

Along with the Ecuadorian passenger sitting next to me, I stayed on the bus until the terminal, since I wasn’t sure exactly how to walk to my home-stay. As we sat in the traffic jam, the bus driver enthusiastically told us about the four best assets of Argentina: women, beef, wine, and tango, in that order. For a culturally complete visit to Argentina, he said, we needed to experience all four. I laughed and resolved to sample the three appropriate items.

Some of the city’s sights:

: Puente de la Mujer

: The Hot Dog Show – 24 hour hotdogs on my block

: Plaza de Mayo and Catedral

: Plaza San Martin and the Tower of Babel, part of Buenos Aires’ designation as the Int…

: San Telmo

: Congreso

: Congreso

: The Rebellious Nun

: Obelisco

: Flat Stanley at El Obelisco

: Avenida de Mayo

: Street closure and hunger strike

: Via Crucis on Good Friday

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Shosholoza Meyl

Pictures from the 27-hour trip on the Shosholoza Meyl Trans-Karoo from Johannesburg to Cape Town:

: Nelson Mandela Bridge

: Krugersdorp Station

: Mining

: Kimberley Station

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Sights of Cape Town

Assorted pictures from the two months I spent living in Cape Town:

: “Africa,” a sculpture by Brett Murray

: Taiko at the Cape Town Station

: Long St.

: Wynberg Carnival

: Looking towards Constantia

: Full moon

: Stop tuberculosis from spreading in minibuses

: Gaatjies prefer not to see underwear

: Mermaid heading down Adderley Street for a National Water Week parade

: Minibus taxi cutting off a Golden Arrow bus

: Minibuses parked at Cape Town Station

: Gaatjie explaining how he was “fined” R50 for not wearing his vest

: Thinking about bringing your spear onto a train? Don’t do it.

: Cape Town City Hall

: A “high crime risk area” that must be used

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Sights of Panama City

: Independence Day Parade

: Santa in a giant cell phone ad

: Blackberry ads

: Keep the areas clean.

: Ad for the soon-to-be-implemented Metro Bus system

: Chinatown Auto Parts

: “Ask for it and I’ll give it to you.” Seems only tangentially related to a furniture…

: Rasta Tigger and Gangster Pooh at the Ca$h Money Barbershop

: Dock in Gamboa

: Inside of a bus – the sign over the door (not shown) reads “Come back to me” – Entish…

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Granada

One of my Spanish teachers invited me to a jazz concert at La Casa de Los Tres Mundos, an cultural center in Granada co-founded by Ernesto Cardenal. Interestingly, a Taiwanese jazz group sponsored by the Taiwanese Embassy was performing. Nicaragua, a relatively socialist country, maintains diplomatic ties with Taiwan instead of communist China, like the rest of Central America.

The concert was a good excuse for me to return to Granada, one of Nicaragua’s most tourist-friendly cities. Andrea, a fellow Spanish student, and I went down for the concert and enjoyed doing some sightseeing around town. Highlights included dinner in the town plaza and a stunning sunset from the bell tower of Iglesia La Merced.

: Speeding microbus

: Ciferal Minimaxes on layover

: School bus in Granada

: Iglesia La Merced in Granada

: View of Granada and Volcan Mombacho

: Granada’s Cathedral and the Lake of Nicaragua

: Sunset over the top of Iglesia La Merced

: Pink clouds over Granada

: Ambassador of Taiwan

: Granada’s Cathedral

: Statue in Granada’s San Francisco Museum – remind anyone else of the Two Watchers at …

: Granada’s old hospital

: Granada’s old hospital

: Granada’s old hospital

: Old train station in Granada

: Old railcars

: Locomotive in Granada

: In Ferrocarriles del Pacifico de Nicaragua Locomotive 21

: Ferrocarriles del Pacifico de Nicaragua Locomotive 21

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Rivas

: Bus in San Juan del Sur

: Church in Rivas

: Rivas

: Pedicabs at a bus stop in Rivas

: The horse pulling this cart lacks wings. Maybe that’s what the mudflaps are for.

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Masaya

On my first trip to Nicaragua in 2008, one of our group’s last stops was Masaya’s old market (touristy and quite clean). This time around, I decided to visit Masaya’s new market (local and less clean) and the attached bus terminal on my walk around the city.