| Show laam dudley in so america americ miss larae dudley laugh dauga ter of 0 mr and mrs A de marr dudley of jensan is enjoying a five weeks tour of south america miss dud ley has taught school in bogota colombia for or tile the I 1 past year and states dates that she he has enjoyed it very much much during her vacation this summer larae la is touring south america writing let from rio de jeniero san paulo montevideo beunos aires and lima peru A letter from montello Mont Mon edlo says I 1 we are arc leaving today for BI buenga benom aires A ires and right now are sitting around wait ing for the plane which will bc two hours lite late the flig flight it to beunos alres aires lii is less thi than III an hour montevideo must be a lov cly place in the summer it is full of perks parks and lovely beaches but right now tile the trees are mostly bare the grass is brown every everyone runs around in overcoats gloves wool scarves and everything t ilse ise alicy can put on wave acri having great fun riding the city buses bubes here in montevideo look european light skinned large arge people we were glad to get back to a country where we can understand what people are saying to us also the money I 1 Is a easier to handle the peso here is worth about loc in brazil the cruzero cruzeiro is worth 12 c from beunos alres aires she writes its just as cold here as montevideo only miles away as a matter of fact argentine steak is just as good as everyone said it would be bc and am I 1 enjoying it we get up rather late start out fc hopping and when we get just frozen stop for lunch steak of course this has to be leisurely because the shops close from I 1 to 3 for lunch we took an excursion up the parano river today and saw a lot of the city but not much scenery the orange trees are loaded with fruit from lima peru a she 11 e writes even though it Is winter here this is a beau ticul city and not cold enough to want a coat they say you seldom see the sun from may to october but it stays quite warm the city is so clean the he building nearly all whitt and so many lovely tree lined avenues we were a m at tile the change w we f found nd when we eside got to th this is side of the conti nent we went from buenos airas straight to lapaz bolivia and skipped paraguay altogether N because cause our pan american plane was a day and a halt half late leaving duen buen os aires A ires we had seen no indians on oil tile the east coast in dolish it was all indians wearing the brightest most colorful clothes you can imagine the colors seemed all the more striking because the land it self is colorless brown clay no trees no bushes not even cactus most of the houses are of the same brown clay with tin roofs here in peru too of course the majority of the people are indian or part indian in the very high moun bains where we came by train everything is brown it is too high for much growth and lima and all the coast is desert we left lopaz lapaz by train to lake Titi caca the highest navigable lake in the world a beautiful sparkling lake miles long we crossed the lake by steamer and continued from the other side to cusco by train twelve hours it was really a most interesting trip in cusco we visited the inca ruins at machu pichu here we are in lima waiting for the visa to get back into bogota |
