Travel Forum / Destinations / Latin America / August 2003

I hope to visit this lovely city in November. Anyone with general info on
this city.
Even web sites that you know has good info.
Thanks

Un amigo me ha pedido preguntar en Usenet: ¿Cómo y dónde es mejor y
más económico comprar pasajes aéreos, cuando se quiere viajar desde
Bogotá a Munich / München (Alemania) o Salzburgo, Linz, Viena o
Innsbruck (Austria) y regresar a Bogotá dentro de dos o tres

Will be going to San Cristobal, Venezuela next week.
Does anyone know what kind of transformer/adapter I'll need for my laptop computer?
Thank you.
Lawrence

I am flying to Amazon next month for two weeks or so. Idea of the trip
is rather stay in-touch with jungle nature and get experience from it
then to get to some particular point.
I am thinking of trekking through jungle during 5-7 days and, perhaps,

Wow, I just returned from Costa Rica. I went to the Cachi area and
stayed at Piedras Albas Cabins. http://www.cabinas.co.cr They have
several cabins in the  middle of a mountain with great views
overlooking a large lake in a remote private tropical rainforest

My partner and I want to visit Iguazzu Falls in February from our base
in Buenos Aires. However, the flights are getting booked up and are
actually pretty expensive. Although I've heard it's a long boring
journey, it's looking like we may have to go by bus. Does anyone know

I'm arriving in Guatemala City at the end of this week and will need
to spend a night there before I head off to Xela.  Being on a limited
budget I've heard decent things about Hotel Spring and Hotel Suizo in
Zona 1.  My question is do I need to worry about booking a room in

I will be travelling to mainland Mexico in November, entering through
Nogales,Sonora.  Last year I made the same trip and stopped at KM21 to
get my tourist cards and vehicle import permits (took about 2 hours).
Since I am currently in San Diego, very close to the border, I would

We were planning on travelling to Panama in late December
for about 3 weeks, but we cannot get any reasonable fares
during that period. It seems that the holiday fares for that
time frame all throughout Latin America are really costly.

We're planning a trip to Ecuador and have read conflicting reports about
the use of credit cards. Some reports say  that only Mastercard is
accepted while others say that both Mastercard and Visa are accepted.
Does anyone have some accurate information for  us?

Has anyone here, driven down to South america from the US.
What should one know , before trying something like this.
I have wanted to go to mexico, peru and Chile,
Is driving an option ??

My daughter is looking for a place in Brazil, Chile, or Argentine to
go rock climbing around Christmas. Any rock climbers out there with
suggestions?
Thanks,

Looking for an online street map, Guadalajara city.
Thanks
Tom

I am considering taking a trip to Venezuela in Febuary.  What are the
prices like down there.  I haven't been able to find anything.  I try
to stay in the lowest priced accomadations.  My only requirement is
that they are resonably clean. ie. no bugs in the beds.  Also what are

Any advice on getting a cell phone or card for making calls from Mexico
to USA while travelling down there?
thanks,
faye