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The Torres del Paine is a national park in Chilean Patagonia. Famous for several massive glaciers and a series of giant granite columns that raise from the ground. They are gigantic granite monoliths shaped by the forces of glacial ice. The name it's self translates to the plain of horns. You can see me in front of those horns to the right. Moving on up. South America is most famously known for it's advance civilisations and most famously the Incas. The Inca empire at it's height stretched almost the entire length of South America.
Don't cry for me Argentina. Che Guevara, Eva Peron and great steaks
are a few things Argentina is famous for, but none so much as Tango,
a spicy dance that developed in the capital Buenos Aires. So how
could one visits this huge country without at least seeking it out.
To the left is me in
La Boca
on the main street, Caminito, a colourful area once home to the
original
'Tangoers'.
Also in Argentina, but also in Brazil are the
Iguazu Falls. They lie
right on the border between the two countries and next to the border
with Paraguay, meaning you can see three countries in one view. The
water fall is massive (you see about a tenth of it on my photo as
you cannot see it all with one view and up close to the fast bits
it's a bit too dangerous and wet for a wombat to be photographed) and one of the most spectacular sights on the
continent. There are about 270 waterfalls stretching 2.7km and one
hell of a lot of water - 9 million litres per second. Wow. The name
Iguazu comes from the Guarani words y (water) and guasu (big). The
legend says that a god pretended to marry a beautiful aborigine
named Naipú, who fled with her mortal lover in a canoe. In rage, the
god sliced the river creating the waterfalls, condemning the lovers
to an eternal fall.
They say life's a beach
and then you die. No wait that's life's a bitch. Anyway
this is me in
Rio
de Janeiro where life was a beach. Taken on a untypical over cast day.
Still you can just about see the sugar loaf behind me.
The Americas are split by the equator and the imaginary circle around the planet is the namesake of the country, Ecuador. It's really wired water goes down the plug one way on one side and the other on the other side. And, yep that's me in a traditional Ecuadorian hat (right) sitting right smack bang on the equator (two paws in each hemisphere, if you must know). By the way did you know that Panama hats are actually from Ecuador, made famous by Ecuadorian workers, working on the Panama canal. Continue to Central and North America...
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