Travel Forum / Destinations / Latin America / December 2004

Please can someone advise.
My friend entered mexico on a 6 month tourist visa, he has overstayed by
six months (thinking his visa would last a year), anyway he now wanted to
return to Germany. What will happen to him, will he be fine/detained??/

I get so tired of going to websites after seing great looking prices
advertised in their newspaper ads only to find you have to input an exact
date, flight info, and sometimes even time to find out a price which is
often 5 times the advertised price.  If ABC Travel Company is ...

I visited the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City last January and was
disappointed  to find so little work by contemporary, cutting-edge
Mexican artists.  (Needless to say, I should have done better pre-trip
homework.)

We would like to make a tour to Choquequirao and are seeking your advice.
- Any recommendations for tour agencies? We are considering qente.com or
machetetours.com but are open to other suggestions. Price is _not_ a
major concern as we would prefer a "private" tour.

Does anyone know any tour operators for some mountain biking in Panama
City, Panama besides extremepanama.com? They aren't running any tours
later this month. The pipeline trail looks like one interesting trail
among many.

I'm going to visit Torres Del Paine national park in the third week of
January. I'm planning to stay in refugios in the national park, but am
having difficulty making reservations. My emails to the travel agents
suggested in Lonely Planet have gone unanswered. If I phone, they

They are waiting for fine white meats and will cook you in large
cauldrons until you're done !
Yummy !

I have posted a brief general history of Peru at:
http://www.latinamericalinks.com/peru_history.htm
Also, I have a brief article on the Chinese, Japanese and Blacks in
Peru:

www.gift.boxke.net << click link

Ok...i just found out I have a weeks vacation in late April.
I wanted to check out Belize...but airfare to Cancun is so cheap that its hard
to resist.
My question is....Is there a cool...chilled out place (similar to Caye Caulker

Did anyone take your cd player, laptop etc with them? I need to take mine
but read somewhere that I need to take the registration of the products or
risk paying duties on them when I come back.
elphaba

We're planning to arrive in Costa Rica on Jan. 19th and stay there
until around Feb. 1.
Right now our tentative plan is to arrive in San Jose, spend just the
one night, then get up early the next morning and head up to

I´m currently living in Rio de Janeiro to study history and maintain a
website about Brazil. The address is www.brazilnow.info
There you can find:
What´s on in Rio de Janeiro

uhhh.  Dah.  Costa Rica is made up of rain forests, deserts, mountains,
marshes, coffee plantations, ranches, volcanos, banana plantations, steam
springs...
There are also two coasts, very different from each other, and 2 main

THE AMAZON
The sky roared like the belly of a hungry jaguar...our small boat was headed
right toward the navy blue storm cloud.  By small, I mean large enough for five
passengers and the three live chickens cramped behind my seat.