The Food Saga: The Drinks

In the Andes, espe­cially in Bolivia, mate de coca was a great option. It is basi­cally a tea of coca leaves: as the Boli­vians say, “la hoja de coca no es droga” (Coke leaf is not a drug). Maybe not a drug, but it is sup­posed to help with soroche, alti­tude sick­ness. I’m a big tea drinker, espe­cially of green tea, and I did like the taste of the beverage.

The Food Saga: The Sweets

Lati­nos appar­ently have a sweet tooth: there were panaderías (bak­ery) just about anywhere!

The Food Saga: The Feast Era

The first Argen­tin­ian city we went to was Ushuaia, in Tierra Del Fuego. Because of its geo­graph­i­cal loca­tion — it is the South­ern­most city in the world, stuck at the tip of the Amer­i­cas, right in front of Antarc­tica — food was quite expen­sive. We ended up cook­ing in hos­tels a lot through­out all Patag­o­nia for the same rea­son. But once back to civ­i­liza­tion, in Buenos Aires, we truly got to enjoy the gastronomy.

The Best & The Worst

We both loved our trip in Cen­tral and South Amer­ica. And now that we are home again in Canada, we thought about it: what were the best places, the best cities that we saw… and what were the worst experiences?

Hello Frozen Hell...

Hello frozen hell… we are fly­ing back to Canada.

Cataratas Do Iguaçu (Brazil Side)

On our sec­ond day, we crossed again to Brazil to visit the other side of the water­falls. While the Argen­tin­ian side allows close-up, the Brazil­ian side is the grand overview — and what a view! The misty atmos­phere made great rain­bows too.

Beautiful Beaches Of Brazil

By the time we got to Rio de Janeiro, we started to look for plane tick­ets back home. But they were very expen­sive, so we knew we had to come back to Buenos Aires, in Argentina.

No wor­ries. We bused back, stop­ping in Flo­ri­anópo­lis and in Curitiba, enjoy­ing the beau­ti­ful beaches alon

Pão de Açúcar

The iconic Sugar Loaf is the best spot in Rio for the thrill of the cable-car ride, for the small hikes on top of the Urca moun­tain, for the views over Rio and for the sun­sets. Lucky us, we got it all!

Copacabana And Ipanema

Rio de Janeiro is most famous for its picture-perfect beaches, mostly Copaca­bana and Ipanema.

Samba De Janeiro!

We attended the Parade of the Cham­pi­ons, fea­tur­ing the best samba schools in Rio, who had the whole night to show off. We took the sub­way to the sta­dium, with — it seemed — half of Rio. A lot of per­form­ers were already wear­ing their cus­toms in the sub­way, and I got a hug from two ¨golden guys¨ who put glit­ters all over me.