Final Tails: Birds and Other Wildlife From Uruguay’s Atlantic Coast
Uruguay is a small country, both in terms of population and size. Around 3.5 million people inhabit the country and it covers approximately 68,037 square miles (176,215 square kilometers) of land area, making it around the same size as the U.S. state of Washington. It is the second smallest nation in South America. Besides being…
An Overnight Adventure in the Argentinian Pampas
Due to logistics and cost, our time in Argentina mainly consisted of exploring Buenos Aires. However, we were not far from some protected sections of one of South America’s most imperiled and lesser-known biomes: the Pampas. The Pampas is a large expanse of flat grasslands with minimal tree cover as well as rolling hills. This…
Buenos Aires Public Transit: Multi-Modal and Well-Connected
Yahm and I have not fully connected with Buenos Aires quite yet, though as of the time of this writing, we are still here for another ten days so maybe our opinion will change. One aspect to the urban-scape of Buenos Aires that has impressed us, though, is the public transit system. It is one…
Exploring an Endangered Ecosystem: My Hike in the Atlantic Forest
South America is known for containing some of the most famous ecosystems on earth such as the Amazon rainforest and the Pantanal wetland. That said, one of the continent’s most diverse biomes, as well as its most threatened, is the not as well-known Mata Atlântica (Atlantic Forest). Prior to European arrival to South America, this…
A Public Transportation Fix in Rio de Janeiro
Our time in Rio de Janeiro was a lot of fun, even though we barely scratched the surface of Brazil’s second largest city. Rio is not as sprawling as some other megacities, but it does cover quite a bit of land. Mixed transit types cover almost the entirety of the city’s 471 square miles (1,221…
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Traveling While Introverted 