End of Year tradition

There is an odd NYE tradition in Buenos Aires where for the end of the year people rip and throw papers from their office windows... the streets are covered. Not so cute considering this city is dirty enough!!!

Random Night in Palermo

I went to dinner/drinks with my friend and here are a few random shots. Please note that the one of me doing some weird pose on the street is me balancing LOL. The sidewalks here are horrible and I swear they are built to make anyone wearing heels FALL.

A great blog

As I mentioned before, I met this dad/daughter duo in my tour of the Iguazu falls. The father was born/raised in Buenos Aires but moved to Switzerland and met a German woman and had two kids. I was fortunate to meet one of them. She studies in England and hopes to work in Wildlife documentaries. Her photography is really spectacular and has one of those insane cameras with a 10 foot lense (ok, I'm exaggerating). I was fortunate enough to get her blog info and here it is... AMAZING WORK, great job Nadege!


http://curtiendolaargentina.blogspot.com/


ENJOY!

IGUAZU

This weekend I flew to Iguazu to visit Las Cataratas (The Waterfalls). They were really amazing & I hope I was able to capture even just a bit of the beauty in my pics. There were Mariposas (Butterflies) EVERYWHERE and these odd looking animals (related to raccoons) strolling around. I met a dad/daughter duo from Switzerland who kept me company the day of the tour and I truly enjoyed the day. Here are some pics... had a hard time editing it down & I even created a butterfly section LOL.

A bit of info:
Their name comes from the Guarani or Tupi words y (IPA:[ɨ]) (water) and ûasú (IPA:[wa'su]) (big). Legend has it that a god planned to marry a beautiful aborigine named Naipí, who fled with her mortal lover Tarobá in a canoe. In rage, the god sliced the river creating the waterfalls, condemning the lovers to an eternal fall. The first European to find the falls was the Spanish Conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1541, after whom one of the falls in the Argentine side is named. The falls were rediscovered by Boselli at the end of the nineteenth century, and one of the Argentine falls is named after him.


AND WE ARE OFF...




















AND WE HAVE ARRIVED...











































Los Pajaros:












Las Mariposas!




















A quick glimpse of my hotel.