The Blog of Omar

Omar's journal of his travels around South America.

Archive for the ‘Argentina’ Category

Iguazu falls

In the Iguazu falls we went on a helicopter! I was really excited and I could not believe how lucky I was. I felt really lucky that I was 10 the first time I went on a helicopter. And Tariq (my brother) is 3 and he went on the helicopter. When we were flying over […]

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Glaciers

Glaciers are ice sheets on the mountains. At the bottom of a glacier there is earth. Ice comes down from mountains and reaches the bottom of the valley. Ice plates are made when ice is made quicker than it melts. We have been to many glaciers, These are the glaciers that we have seen: Viedma, Perito […]

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Our time in Patagonia

We had a really good time in a place in Patagonia called Chalten.The first day we came here we went out to eat dinner and after our parents let us have an ice cream. The next day we climbed up a hill with teachers from Chalten and they were P.E. teachers. After we walked about […]

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Watching Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires

Watching a game in Buenos Aires is very different from watching a football match in England. First we went to a restaurant, it was very different from the rest of the restaurants because it had no seats or tables so everyone had to stand up while they were eating. The queue for the match was […]

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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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