The Travels of Päivi and Santeri

Photos of visiting our old friends in Buenos Aires after being in New Zealand for a while. Of course there were parties again.

Bolivian people are used to carrying anything from groceries to children in their backs like human backpacks. The border between Chile and Bolivia is in 6000 meters and air was quite thin. We saw a group of Norwegian tourists in the border queue fainting from altitude sickness. They recovered after having some coca tea. It's a good medicine for altitude sickness, but unfortunately not a drug. It had no effect on us.

The flight marathon:18 take-offs and landings, 35 hours of flying and 50 hours in airports within five days.

Is time money? People have to sell less time in Buenos Aires to buy the same amount of time than in Helsinki.

Argentinians want to be respectable, but breaking promises and being always very late is considered OK because it is “relaxed”.

Dear friends, We have been busy translating La Habanera into English . It´s ready! Päivi has also started to translate our Brazilian tourist guide book into Spanish. It takes more time and will be published later. The Pätölä satire (in Finnish only, sorry) has now been wholly released.

We have settled down in Buenos Aires and will stay here as long as it feels good. We have a nice apartment, new friends and an easy-going lifestyle so there is absolutely no need to hurry onwards. Besides, our New Year promise devotes us not to develop ourselves in any way and travelling further might compromise that promise somehow. And there is a lot to see in Argentina itself.

After one month Argentina seems to be the total opposite of Brazil: people are honest and friendly, and there is no cheating.