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Photos from Central and South America: the best of the best and a few more that make me smile

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Last month I did my first giveaway and recently announced the winner on my Facebook Page.

After being home for several months, I still had empty photo frames on my walls.

I have so many photos from the last two years of travel that I simply could not narrow it down enough.  I asked you to help me make the decision.

Thanks for coming through!

 

I share the results in this post.

These are the best of the best, voted BY YOU!

And because I have so many other photos that may not be worth of a 36 x 24 print but make me smile, I found a creative and visually appealing way to display several smaller prints.

Check those out at the end.

Best Photos from Central and South America

#1 – Laguna Colorada

#2 – Salar Sunrise, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

#3 – Alone in the Woods, Lago Puelo, Argentina

#4 – Fitz Roy, El Chalten, Argentina

#5 – Burros, Tupiza, Bolivia

#6 – Condor, Tarija, Bolivia

#7 – Laundry Day – Antigua, Guatemala

#8 -Trees – Buenos Aires, Argentina

#9 – OHIO – El Chalten, Argentina

#10 – Leon, Nicaragua

More photos that make me smile

I LOVE the graffiti art all over Latin America, especially in Buenos Aires.

I went to local food markets nearly every day to buy fresh fruits and veggies.  I loved that part of my lifestyle, and it is something I really miss.

My bikini may not have matched my wool hat, but I didn’t care.  This hot “bath” was amazing after a few days on the road without a shower.

I took my first cooking classes ever during my travels in Latin America.  It was so much fun that I began to seek them out wherever I went.  This photo is from a very memorable day cooking in Valparaiso, Chile.

These adorable children were happy to pose for a photo in their traditional Carnaval outfits in Ocu, Panama.

Well, this just reminds of how anything goes in Central America.

Seeing geysers for the first time in the Bolivian Altiplano was a memorable moment.  I was amazed that you could just walk right up to the edge of one.  I was careful not to trip.

This was very early on during my travels. I fell in love with Antigua, Guatemala, and I was really getting into photography and learning by doing.

Friendly smiles and delicious street food in Mexico City.

A slice of fresh watermelon (one I don’t have to cut up myself) always put a smile on my face in Leon, Nicaragua.

I love flip-flops.  I wore holes through the bottoms of two pair of Tevas and a few other cheap pairs I had to buy on the road.  Despite wearing SPF30 sunblock religiously and staying in the shade between 10am and 2pm while I was in Central America, I had the most ridiculous tan of my life.

One of my favorite things in Central America is that whenever you bought a licuado (smoothie) or fresh juice from a street vendor or in the markets, it was served in a plastic bag with a straw.  When I make smoothies at home, sometimes I am tempted to put it in a bag and walk through my neighborhood just to see if anyone says anything.

 

Comments

  3. ‘When I make smoothies at home, sometimes I am tempted to put it in a bag and walk through my neighborhood just to see if anyone says anything.’ – I love that sentence! Please do it and report back if someone said something 😀

    These photos are fabulous, and get us really excited to see the rest of South America, especially Patagonia (our next stop!)
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  9. Triple wow – your photos are STUNNING! Seriously. Here in Thailand people ‘take-away’ everything in plastic bags, too, by the way. I wonder how your American Smoothie-in-a-bag challenge will go down… Someone will probably ‘have mercy’ and hand you a glass or a cup…;)
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  17. Awwwwww these photos make me smile. I am just now thinking of finally making it back down to CR this April. Man, I wish I could take a month off work and travel around South America. I miss my lazy expat days so much! Your photos bring back such a strong emotion — and I’ve never even been to some of these countries! It’s the feeling I guess. You look so gorgeous. I love your photography!
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    • Aw, thank you! Glad I this brings back good memories for you too…. even if you haven’t been to these places.

  23. Wow, these are gorgeous. I had a hard time choosing my favorite, but I think it was a tie between the black and white image of Buenos Aires and the burros in Bolivia. Thanks for sharing them!

  25. I am from El Salvador, so for me, those smoothies in a plastic bag are just normal. I want to share this link, see which important company has already noticed that is such a great idea to sell a drink that way. Please take a look at this link, you won’t regret.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu7kBdECu84

    Tenga un buen dia. Que le vaya muy bien!!! 😉

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