Camping im El Chaten Nationalpark

Wir haben heute eine Wanderung zum El Chatten geplannt. Bei einem Campingshop konnten wir uns ein Zelt und Schlafsaecke ausleihen.

Fuer diesen Trip haben wir zwei Tage eingeplannt. Der erste Teil bis zum Camp war 12.5 Kilometer und der zweite Teil ca noch 4.5 Kilometer.

Ich habe natuerlich gedacht, dass mir das keine Probleme bereiten wird aber leider habe ich dies arg unterschaetzt. Ich habe in den Rucksack viel zu viel eingepackt.

Dies bekam mein Ruecken schon nach der ersten Steigung zu spuehren. Der Trip wurde somit zum HOELLENTRIP. Ich habe geflucht wie ein Rohrspatz. Vanessa hat mein schweiz.deutsche Fluch Ausdruecke zum Glueck nicht alles verstanden.

Natuerlich wurde unser harter Aufstieg mit einer atemberaubender Landschaft wettgemacht.

Nach 2.5 Stunden sind wir beide erschoepft im Basecamp angekommen. Das Zelt welches wir ausgeliehen haben stand schon nach einer Viertelstunde ;-)

Die Groesse des Zeltes war sehr klein obwohl es ein Zweimann Zelt war. Somit schlief ich in einer Krueppel - Embrio Stellung.

Fuer denn letzten Teil bis nah an den El Chaten haben wir uns was besonderes ausgedacht. El Chatten beim Sonnenaufgang erleben.

Um 3 Uhr Morgens ging der Wecker los. Wir verliessen den Camp in totaler Finsternis. Vanessa war zuerst aengstlich weil sie dachte das in diesen Waelder Bolivianische Guerilla Kaempfer Touristen entfuehren koennten....HAHAHA.

Der Aufstieg war natuerlich wieder knochenhart aber diesesmal haben wir einen grossen Teil unseres Gepaecks im Zeltlager zurueckgelassen. Somit ging es einigermassen. Einmal haben wir uns verlaufen. Die Zeit wurde immer knapper....aber schlussendlich klappte es doch noch. Wir kammen rechtzeitig an und wurden mit einem HAMMER AUSBLICK belohnt.

Der Sonnenaufgang war Atemberaubend, in Worten nicht zu beschreiben was für ein Hochgefühl.

Gruesse Marcel

La Boca Match on Film

Check out the passion!

Argentine Football : Boca vs. Colon

Today the Boca Juniors are playing their final match for the season to win the cup. When we woke up late this morning at 11:30, of course we had no tickets and no chance to see the game live. However it was such a beautiful day, we thought why not head down to La Boca area of Buenos Aires to watch the game in the street with the other Argentines, eat some street chalchica and drink quite a bit of Quilmes beer.

We arrived around 2pm in La Boca. The streets here resemble the south Bronx with dusty broken up cobblestones and colorfully painted walls. You can see old train tracks that lead to nowhere and there and many old heavily weathered buildings. After wandering La Boca for an hour, we got right up to the bright canary yellow and royal blue stadium. Everybody was outside... T-shirts optional, cooking, eating, drinking (soda) and chanting for Boca. It was at least 35 degrees outside and the sun was beaming!

We tried to get tickets at the counter, but it was totally sold out. Bummer. All the way to Boca freakin Argentina and no tickets.

Still feeling excited from the energy of the people, we walked around refusing to leave when a scrubby looking dude walked by and said, "Tickets!" Oh schnookies... tickets off the street? Can we really scalp tickets in Latin America? ok ok... calm down. Lets check how much money we have to potentially throw away.

MMMN ok, should we, should we not... lets do it. Lets buy the tickets from scrubby dude!

In anticipation of expensive crap food inside the stadium, we ate quickly a pizza and empanadas with cokes (no beer on game day) and queued up outside with the Boca fans. Marcel put on his newly bought Boca shirt and guess what?

We got inside! Our scalped tickets worked!!

As for the game.. I will let Marcel write that story. For me, it was the best futbol match I have seen. Aggressive, Loud, Fireworks, Hot Stinky People and lots of Passion. Vamos Boca! (of course they won, 3-1)

By the way, we payed the Gringo price of $AR 140 each (original price $AR 24) and loved every second of it.

xxx

Vanessa

2m x 2m Cell... Ummm I mean Hostel Room

On the Road - Hostel Cooking

Yeah so, on the road we stay in hostels for about $AR50-60 each per night. Not a bad price with the option to cook in their kitchen, we can save cash and cook for ourselves. The first hostel, there was about 4 other couples also cooking in the same kitchen at the same time as us... with 6 cooking burners, pots with no handles, no potholders, no spices, one chopping block and one knife.

I froze.

Marcel had to cook and I prepared the beer to be drunken with dinner :)

Penguina - Rio Gallegos

We have seen the living and breeding place of the Magellan penguins. They make this crazy sound to talk to each other. I hope you can hear it in the video... although you might hear more of the wind instead of penguin calls.

We were lucky to be in the right spot at the right time. During December, the penguins lay their eggs and make lots of little furry penguin babies. You can see the babies in their nests, though the daddy protect them and tries to cover the babies so that you cannot see them in the nest.

It was amazing. I had the biggest smile on my face the whole time.

Perito Moreno

The most beautiful glacier I've ever seen in my life. You can hear the crackling of the ice and see bits of the glacier falling off into the icy waters. The bright blue colors of the glacier are trapped gases within the ice and snow.

Sugar Breakfast... Azucar Desayuno... Zucker Frühstück!

We raided Santi's fridge the first morning after 10 hours of sleep. Here's what we ate: Choco Krispies y Zucaritas con Leche AND Dulce de Leche with Toast. MMMMMMMMNNNNN TOTAL SUGAR HIGH!

Buenos Aires - La Boca

Hey so, keep up this blog is tough especially with limited WIFI access... we'll be posting all our pics to another website. So stay tuned!


LA BOCA
Marcel and I paid 1 Peso (about .35 CHF) for a 30 minute busride to La Boca. Beautifully colored buildings, cobblestone streets, couples dancing the Tango, people eating and drinking! What a lively area.

Buenos Aires!!! Steak Night with Santi & Vivi!!

Finally, the moment we've been waiting for... REAL ARGENTINE STEAKS!!
Santi took us out ot the best Argentine Steak House in Buenos Aires.
Check us out... YUM YUM aren't we all handsome and pretty!

Better yet... Check out the meat!!

Ciao Linda y Lindo!

Sandra and Thomas sent us off from the SBB trainstation. It was hard to say goodbye.
Endlich seid ihr uns los.

TOTALLY AWESOME!!!

Last Smile ¦ Unser letztes Lachen vor der Weltreise

We are ready to go... one last picture before we miss the bus to the Basel SBB Trainstation.

Wir sind bereit... unsere Rucksack sind gepackt, jetzt geht es endlich los.

So... how many underwear? Wieviel Unterhosen?

The final report is in!! We should take 10!!

Last Day in Basel ¦ Letzter Tag in Basel

The night before our flight was Hamburger Night with Sandra & Thomas. We also practiced Spanish and Japanese lessons with the computer. We ate.. organized and did laundry. I could hardly sleep.. Marcel had no problem at all and slept like a bear.

Unsere letzte Abschiedsparty im Paddy Reilys

Meine Freundin und ich sind seit einem Monat auf Abschiedstour bei all unseren Freunden.
Gestern Abende feierten wir dann unsere letzte Abschiedsparty Paddy Reilys.
Meine Freunden waren echt der Hammer. Als Abschiedsgeschenk überreichten sie mir ein
T-Shirt welches sie selber entworfen haben. Super!





Die Party ging fröhlich bis in die frühen Morgenstunden.



Frolein noch eine Runde bitte!!! Messi

Liebe Grüsse und bis bald aus Buenos Aires.

marcel

Tamagotchi!!! Virtual Pets

We've been living now for 2 weeks with Sandra & Thomas. Since they need to look after us and watch our sleeping, eating and playing patterns, they've nicknamed us their "Tamogotchis."


Ichigotchi = Vanessa
Teen-ager, sincere, a little hasty, loves to dance and eat chocolate.





Young Mimitchi = Marcel
Teen-ager, sincere, always says, "I wanna use the internet, can I download something?"



Tamagotchi translates to "cute loveable egg." If you want to learn more about the virtual pets, click here: http://www.mimitchi.com/tamaplus/connection_facts.shtml

xxx V

Living in the Attic | Wohnen im Dach

Here is our current living situation in the attic space. It is nice, quiet and private. Our bed is a real Japanese futon bed... very hard, but actually quite good for you back to sleep on. These days I'm sleeping great, although the anticipation of our trip is getting me excited!

Mile 0 | Kilometer 0 = Basel, Switzerland

Mile 0 starts us out from home... or actually from the attic of Marcel's sister Sandra. (We've already sublet our apartment and are currently apartmentless.) Our flight takes off 24th of November, where we'll head off to beautiful Buenos Aires, Argentina. I look forward to a jumbo argentinian steak and an all night gossip session with our friend, Santiago!

Projekt Weltreise | Project World Trip

We're going on a world trip through at least 11 countries.

The backpacks, cowboy boots and antibiotics all set to go!

Why don't you come and meet us on the road?

1. Argentina (November 24th 2008)
   
2. Peru (December 22nd)
   
3. USA - Hawaii (January 2009)
   
4. Fiji (February)
   
5. New Zealand (February)
   
6. Australia (March)
   
7. China (April)
   
8. India (May)
   
9. Japan (June)
   
10. Mongola (July)
    
11. Russia (August)

Home in Switzerland... by August 2009!
xxx Vanessa