Saturday, November 29, 2008

(Provisional) ITINERARY Southern SOUTH AMERICA - December ’08 to March ’09

Sue and Ros’s little trip.

BRAZIL

14 Dec to 4th Jan: Rio for Christmas & New Year with Sue’s family.

5th Jan to 7th Jan: Curitiba including train trip to Paranagua.

7th to 8th Jan: Porto Alegre


URUGUAY


9th to 12th Jan: Montevideo

12th Jan: Colonia and ferry over River Plate


ARGENTINA

12th to 14th Jan: Buenos Aires

15th Jan: bus going South into PATAGONIA

16th to 18th Jan: Puerto Madryn, including trips to Peninsula Valdes and Trelew/Gaiman

18th to 20th Jan: Caleta Olivia and Puerto Deseado

21st Jan: Rio Gallegos

22nd Jan: travelling into TIERRA DEL FUEGO

22nd Jan to 25th Jan: Ushuaia


CHILE

26th to 28th Jan: Punta Arenas

29th Jan to 5th Feb: Puerto Natales, including on 30th, day on board Seabourn Pride with Hamish and Gail, and Torres del Paine Glacier Park etc.

5th Feb to 9th Feb: up the Chilean Archipelago on Navimag ferry.

9th to 10th Feb: Puerto Montt

10th Feb: on the Carretera Austral bus to Temuco

10th to 11th Feb: Temuco, home town of the Mapuche people. Catch overnight train

12th to 15th: Santiago

15th to 18th: Valparaiso and Vina del Mar, where friend Olivia lives.

18th catch bus, which goes via tunnel through Andes, to Mendoza (Argentina)


ARGENTINA

18th to 19th: Mendoza.

20th to 22nd Feb: La Rioja

22nd to 25th Feb: Salta

Weds 25th /26th Feb: on bus to Resistencia


PARAGUAY

27th Feb to 1st March: Asuncion


BRAZIL

1st to 3rd March: Iguacu Falls

4th to 15th March: Rio, Sue’s family & lots of sleeping in hammock.

15th March: fly back to UK