South America
« Previous EntriesThe Falklands Islands and her capital Stanley here on Virtualtripping.com.
Saturday, January 21st, 2012The Falkland Islands Welcome to Stanley Photo by Matthew Goulding Photo by Strange Ones This is a picture taken from flickr of Hanging Out Gentoos This is a post about the Falklands Islands which are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, you will find these islands about 250 nautical miles (290 miles or 460 km away [...]
Lets fly to the Caribbean and visit the island of Curaçao, near Venezuela, South America.
Friday, October 21st, 2011Visit Curacao Curacao Beaches Caribbean Photo by green.thumbs Photo by henri_hovi Welcome to the Island of Curaçao, you will find this island in the southern Caribbean Sea, not to far off the Venezuelan coast. So what have i learn’t about this country, well it is a small country with a population of 142,180, taken from [...]
This is the giant city of São Paulo, Southeast Region of Brazil, South America.
Monday, October 17th, 2011Sao Paulo – The Best São Paulo City _ Brazil Photo by Márcio Cabral de Moura Photo by Márcio Cabral de Moura São Paulo, or in English it is Saint Paul, this is the largest city in the South American Country of Brazil, and has got to be one of the most famous and well-known cities [...]
This is one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, it is the Machu Picchu in the Urubamba Valley in Peru, South America.
Monday, September 19th, 2011Michael Palin in Machu Picchu – BBC Photo by reflectification Photo by jasonpearce So what is the Machu Picchu, means in English “Old Peak”. This happens to be a pre-Columbian 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres or 7,970 feet, above sea level. You will find it located on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in [...]
This is Argentina in Southern America on Virtualtripping.com.
Sunday, January 2nd, 2011Argentina is the second largest country in South America, it runs from Bolivia in the north right down to Cape Horn. And from the Andes mountains right the way down to the Atlantic ocean, not to far away from the Falklands Islands. The high Andes range in the west contains Mount Cerro Aconcagua, the highest [...]
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