ARGENTINA by BUS - South Pass Working through Cuatro Rumbos, buy a bus pass that allows you visit Argentina, travelling where you want, when you want.

If that doens't work for you, check out their wide array of package and discount tours in and around Argentina and neighboring countries. They even have a honeymoon special for Buenos Aires and Iguazu Falls.

What started as a simple blog entry citing statistics from one source about the Best Places to Live in Latin America has blossomed into on ongoing, engaging discussion about different countries and locations. Many of our readers are interest in relocating to somewhere in Latin America, and their questions and comments are intriguing.

Naturally, no one place or country is the best, and correspondents have varying opinions on location, safety, economics, natural beauty, and so on, but re-reading these posts is making me want to make my travel arrangements and visit some of the most often recommended places.

How about you? If you've traveled in Latin America and found a place that calls to your heart, let us know about it. Or if you've found a country or place you cannot recommend, let us know about that, too,

You might enjoy some of these Suggestions and Recommendations for Travel in South America.

The image familiarly known as the Big Blue Marble conveniently shows Central and South America, many of whose countries are under discussion here. Many thanks to NASA for the display of this reconstructed digital portrait of our planet. Enjoy many more of their images in the South America from Space Photo Gallery.

The flightless birds endemic to the pampas and Patagonian regions of South America aren't tame. Fast runners, they are mainly vegetarian, but they do consume insects and small animals.

Click on the link or the photo for more information about these rheas in Chile's Torres del Paine National Park.

Photo displayed with the kind permission of Ron Miller - author of Escape from the Happy Cannibal

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Italian climbers stranded high on Argentine peak (AP): "Rescuers are trying to reach four Italian mountain climbers and their Argentine guide after they became trapped by a storm at 22,000 feet (6,700 meters) just below the summit of the highest peak in the Americas. Italian consular official Giorgio Giacomello says the climbers have been stranded since Wednesday night on Mt. Aconcagua."

3 Italians rescued after deadly climb in Argentina (AP) "Three Italian climbers were flown to safety and a third alpinist died Friday in Argentina following a blizzard on the highest mountain in the Americas."

Another member of their party and their guide died on the mountain, as did a member of another climbing party. "Two to three people die every year climbing Aconcagua, according to Juan Pablo Marziane, head of logistics with a climbing expedition company in Mendoza, the usual point of departure."

Cerro Aconcagua, located in Mendoza province, is the higest peak in the Western Hemisphere. At 22834 ft, or 6960 m, the peak towers over the Andes range and nearby Upsallata Pass, the transandine crossing between Argentina and Chile.

This view of Cerro Aconcagua is displayed with the kind permission of Roberto Ingledew.