We have made a list, ordered currency, read travel guides and learnt a few words of Spanish. Our outgoing flight seats have been changed and the return flight seats aren't booked yet. We fly via Madrid with Iberia, who are twinned with BA luckily. I have put our four main cities into the world time zones map on my new tablet.
We fly to Buenos Aires and stay there for a week, doing some tours,then fly to Mendoza and the wine region. Then we take a short flight over the Andes to Santiago in Chile. Both countries use pesos but not the same ones. We will visit the Maipo Valley and try more wine. Then we fly to Panama City and make a one week tour along the Panama Canal, which looks very exciting. But the tour's in German.
After that we fly to San Jose in Costa Rica where we stay for 3 weeks. After seeing the capital we will have a hire car to drive on tours of the Green North and the Wild South. We hope to see volcanoes, national parks, exotic birds and animals, turtles, and walk through the canopy of the rain forest. Then we spend our final week in Tamarindo on the Pacific coast, relaxing. We return late on 24 November, arriving back the following evening.
