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Sights of Santiago

ansoncfit — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:55:22 +0000

: 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

ansoncfit — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 01:42:08 +0000

: School bus

: School minibus

: Buses at Retiro

: Facultad de Derecho

: La Salada

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Arriving in Buenos Aires

ansoncfit — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:22:01 +0000

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

ansoncfit — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:52:23 +0000

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

ansoncfit — Tue, 03 May 2011 00:03:40 +0000

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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