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Haven’t written in a while and wanted to take the time to update everyone on some of my adventures in South America. It’s been about two months since I finished my trip, but I am still down in South America traveling. Since my last update, I spent four days doing great hikes in and around Quito with my dad. At times the altitude was a challenge for him but as a result made it easy for him to hike Macchu Picchu and Waynupicchu after that time of acclimatization. We spent one afternoon in the Otavalo market, one of the most famous native markets in Ecuador. That same day, we hiked around lago Cuicocha but were quite tired at the end so we ended up hitchhiking to get back to town. We rode in the back of a pickup truck with 3 girls who found that hilarious. I was surprised at the end when they charged us 50 cents each to ride.
We also hiked up the Telforica which is above a cable car just outside the city of Quito and provides a great view of the city. On another day, we hiked down to a different lake to do some kayaking and rode back up this very narrow trail on mules which was also fun. On the last of these adventures, we climbed up Volcano Cotopaxi, where we marched through some very hard snow at high altitude.
After this period, my father went to Peru to see Macchu Pichu, Cusco and Lima and I stayed in Ecuador for five more days. We then met back up in Buenos Aires for another five day stint.
We rented an apartment in Puerto Madero, which is an upscale neighbourhood along the water. The first night that we were there we ended up at the same restaurant as Paula Zahn, who used to be a news anchor for CNN and whom my father had already met in Peru so we had dessert with her. We spent most of our time exploring the city from the green parks of Palermo to the Soccer museum of La Boca, the famous buildings of the microcentro and Evita’s tomb in the Recollatas cemetary. On Sunday we spent our time exploring the historic Sunday market of San Telmo, and everywhere you go in Buenos is always filled with incredible energy. We also ended up at the same restaurant as some other Montrealers at a great place called Cabrera. One night we went to a tango show with another family (the Bruckners) whom we know through my friend Max from Montreal.
After what I beleive was a great adventure with my dad, he flew back home for New Years.
Bryan Mahoney -