Colca Canyon Condor Watching Peru

Would you like to see the Andean Condor flying in its natural habitat? The Colca Canyon just 160km north of Arequipa in Peru is one place to do it.

Peru - Colca Canyon Condor watching

Many tours can be taken from Arequipa lasting either 2 or 3 days to see these majestic birds in flight.

Food and Drink of Argentina

We have started a guide to typical Argentinian Food and Drink.

Argentina FOOD Guide including the classic Dulce de Leche which is everywhere and in everything.

Argentina DRINK Guide including Mate that you can see Argentinians drinking and sharing almost everywhere too!

We know that it needs a little more information so if anyone knows of any food or drink that is typical of Argentina that we haven't written yet, please let us know.

Chilean License Plate Numbers

As from tomorrow (3rd of September 2007) Chilean Car License Plate numbers are about to change. Until recently the license plate numbers have been two letters followed by four digits (e.g. ZY 1234). Though now the country has run out of possible sequences using that combination so as from tomorrow, a new letter/number combination will start appearing.

The new plates will now contain a combination of 4 letters and 2 numbers (e.g. BBBB 12)
The new license plates will only contain 18 different letters from the Spanish alphabet, leaving out all the vowels (AEIOU) and the letter ñ which could easily be confused with the letter n, as well the letter Q with could have been confused with the letter O.

The first plate will be BBBB 10, the next BBBB 11 and so on until BBBB 99.
After that last one, the next number plate will be BBBC 10 and so on.

This new change will allow for at least 9 million different new combinations. Of course some 'obsene' combinations will not be made.