The Blog of Omar

Omar's journal of his travels around South America.

Archive for October, 2011

Robbery in Buenos Aires

Today the Al-Qasem family had a close escape from being robbed by a robber in a tube in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The robber went in the train as them at the same time, and then when the train went to the very next stop, when the doors opened the robber sneaked into Mr Al-Qasem’s pocket, […]

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Review of the playground at the top of Salta

In this playground I think the good things are the slide because it is quite long and slippery, the web because you can climb it and pretend your the kid version of spiderman, and the bridges to cross to different places are different like there are some made of wood and others made of string. […]

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Bolivia

In Bolivia we firstly went to Copacabana and we were searching for a place to stay. We finally slept in a Hotel. The next day we went to la isla del sol (The island of the sun) and when we got there we had to walk up a mountain that was 500 metres tall. The […]

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La Cupula

  Come to La Cupula and have a brilliant time. Here at La Cupula we have a wide variety of food from Bolivian food to Italian food. While you are waiting for your food you may go to our playground to play or to lie down on our hammocks. While you relax our chefs work […]

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Lake Titicaca

Today we are in a lake that is the highest lake that you can cross in altitude, the lake Titicaca. We are going to go to the Uros islands. The Uros islands are man-made and they float. It took us 1 hour to get there and the first thing I realised was that there was […]

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