Travel Forum / Destinations / Latin America / November 2003

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I'm looking for a hostel in Santaigo de Chile - any recommendations resp.
suggestions ?
Thanks in advance - and take care !

I read somewhere that the area bounded by Ave Callao, Tucuman and Rivadavia
to the west is good for leather and fashion goods. Is this the case and are
the prices and quality good? Any help here would be great
Thanks

I'm looking in internet for some maps of Huascaran region. If you know were
I can find them then please about some informations.
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Kuba Karczewski

The previous link didn't work; try this one, although it's in Spanish (the
"taco" measurement is the height of the heel, and the "taco francés" is a
French heel):
http://www.shoes-susanaartesanal.com/html/caballeros.htm

I am taking my first trip to South America and will be going to the Southern
tip of Chili.  We are thinking of taking a brief 12 hour flight/visit to
King George Island in Antarctica.  This will be in mid November.  If anyone
has had any experience with this kind of side trip I ...

Has anyone been to Nicaragua?

Can someone who has stayed at the Oceano Palace in Mazatlan let me know what
kind of a place it is???
It is rated 2 stars but what does this mean in practical terms. Is it clean,
rundown, safe, adequate for a two week stay??

I'm a 29 year old american womean who is going to travel with 2 other
ladies to Brazil, Argentina and Chile.  I speak fluent Spanish but am
unsure of what is the best way to travel.  Do we hook up with one of
the those travel groups and let them plan everything for us or do we

My husband and I are wanting to travel in February and are thinking of checking out BCS, north of La Paz.
We've done a road trip from Cabo to La Paz in a Jeep and loved it!
We like small, local places to stay, but safe and clean (Los Arcos in la Paz, for instance). We really enjoy ...

We're headed back to Coz in February after a 5-year absence. The last
time we were there on a package at the Allegro AI on Playa San
Francisco. This time we're on our own in a little hotel on Playa
Norte.

The only reasonable air tickets I could find over Christmas are for
Manzanillo, and it looks like the easiest spot in the mountains from
there is Colima.  Anyone have any recent hotel, restaurant or attraction
tips that may not be in the books?

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I'm looking for a tour operator who offers Overlanding Tours in Patagonia -
I will arrive in Buenos Aires December 30th and I'm interested to start from
B.A. directly ( duration up to four weeks ) .

We want to go to Patagonia in February to do a few trekkings. Now we
found an organisation in Holland who provides such a trip, and we will
do that probably. The complete program ends in Ushuaia, and we look for
a possibility to go to Antarctica from there, via a daytrip or maybe a

Anyone care to share their opinions about which Central American countries
are the best and worst for being hassled by customs and other crooks for bribe
money? I know Costa Rica is probably pretty clean, but what about the others?
I'm thinking here about cops that try to extort ...

Yesterday the Royal Geographical Society announced that the
Thomson-Ziegler Andean Research Expedition 2003 had discovered (or
rather rediscovered) a large complex of ruins at Llactapata, not far
from Machu Picchu. The ruins were originally found by Hiram Bingham,