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Welcome to the South America branch!

Welcome to the Thorn Tree's South America branch.

The countries covered by this branch are: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile & Easter Island, Colombia (note spelling), Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela.

We hope you find plenty of useful information about travelling to South America here. It is highly recommended that new users check out the some of these useful FAQ threads on this branch before posting a new thread:

• Brazil FAQ thread
• South America FAQ thread

Brazil Frequently Asked Questions

For the benefit of everyone dropping by the Brazil branch for the first time, please read this FAQ first. And I hope there can be some sort of way to moderate the thread to keep it updated and clean. I know there are some AWESOME regular contributors here who enjoy giving advice; I feel this thread can really help to condense the information available.

I'll go first, with some general thoughts from the South America FAQ. Many thank to Apollo for starting that thread and for a great idea. Hopefully we can have a similar thread for Brazil.

1) Use the "Search" function to find out if someone has already asked your question. Many questions have already been asked before, and regular contributors to the forum get tired of answering the same thing over and over again.

2) Read a few pages of posts. The most frequent... more »

Advice on spending boxiny day in Bueno Aries

Hi,

I am going to Bueno Aries for a language course for a week. I am thinking of leaving Buenos Aries by bus to go to Mendoza on boxing day. But I notice that it's a Saturday and I am wondering if I am missing out the night life not spending the Saturday night in Bueno Aries (and sleep in a bus instead). Since it will be boxing day, is it going to be busy as usual. busier, or quiet? Please advice

Thanks in advance.

Dianna

Language school location ILEE I.L.E.E

The language school known as ILEE or I.L.E.E has moved from the address just off the Callao Line B Subte stop to one close to the Line B Subte stop at Florida. The correct address is Third floor 962 Reconquista (look for a cafe named Riggoleto which is right next door).

Don't know if later versions of the LP guide for Arg. have the new address, but mine had the address off Callao. I was there the past two weeks so this is effective as of at least November 2009. Also, they co-teach with EBA Trust, and the address on Reconquista is for that school (which also has its own web site). Same price/methods/teachers.

Edited by: deepbitbucket

Edited by: deepbitbucket

A way to go from Punta del Diablo to Iguazu?

Hi there
In a few days I'm going to Punta del Diablo, and after that I will be heading for the falls in Iguazu. But what is the smartest way to go to the falls from Punta del Diablo? Do I need to go back to Montevideo (and then do some border crossing/whatever it takes to get to the falls) or is it possible to get to Porto Alegre from Punta del Diablo and then take a bus to the falls?

I hope there's someone who can help me :)
Cheers, Søren

peninsula valdes- puerto madryn or puerto piramides?

we're flying from BA to trelew (our flight arrives in trelew at 9:30am) and taking the bus to the peninsula valdes area. we're trying to figure out if we should head straight to puerto piramides or book a night in puerto madryn first. thoughts? is it better to organize your peninsula valdes tour from puerto madryn or puerto piramides? we're not really pressed for time, but we are thinking we want to spend the night on the peninsula (rather than just doing a day tour from puerto madryn). can you organize two day tours of the peninsula from puerto madryn, or only day trips? thanks in advance for your help!

Bus from Tunja (or Villa de Leyva) to Santa Marta ?

Hello,
I will be in Villa de Leyva this week, and want to head North to Santa Marta afterwards.

Is there a direct bus from Villa de Leyva or Tunja to Santa Marta and how many hours will it take?

Would be very grateful for your help

Thanks

Sven

My first trip to South America...looking forward!

Hi to everybody,
I am Alessandro, an Italian student and with my girlfriend we are flying to Brasil (San Paolo) to stay there for 3 weeks. For sure we would spend a couple of days in Rio for the carnival and to visit a friend of mine but then we would really like to travel around. We were thinking about going to Argentina and Peru as main targets, any other suggestion?

Could you please tell us things we shouldn't absolutely miss in these 3 countries (Brasil, Argentine, Peru)?
How shall we travel from a country to another? Train or local flights? Do we need to buy in advance our tickets!

EVERY advice is welcome!

Thanks again

Alessandro and Ania

Iguazu Logistics

Hi!

I come to Iguazu Airport (Argentina side) at 13:25 with a couple of big bags. I am scheduled to stay overnight at Puerto Iguasu. It seems that it would be logical to go straight to the falls from the airport and than after seeing them go to the hotel. The problem is with the bags - do not know where to leave those ... Should I hire a vehicle with a driver so that he can keep it in a trunk? Hom much would that be?