Biographie de Sandra Bao

Sandra Bao is a Chinese-American born in Argentina, and this fact has confused many Chinese, Americans and Argentines she's met. Perpetually peripatetic, she's traveled to around 60 countries and has lived on three continents, but now calls the beautiful Pacific Northwest home. Sandra is proud to be a porterla and regularly returns to Argentina to investigate what the wildly fluctuating peso - which keeps her fully employed as a guidebook researcher - is doing.
As well as writing many of the chapters of this book, over the last decade Sandra has contributed to a couple of dozen Lonely Planet titles on four continents. Over the past 20 years, Gregor Clark has traveled South America from tip to tail, developing a special fondness for Uruguay while researching the last three editions of this book. Favorite memories this time around include surveying Uruguay's Atlantic coast from atop Sierra de las Animas, riding horses through the rocky landscape of Sierra de Rocha and searching nationwide for the perfect chivito.
He has contributed to a dozen other Lonely Planet titles, including Brazil and South Arnerica on a Shoestring. Carolyn McCarthy traveled overland over 5 000km in winter to make this trip, visiting hundreds of attractions and three auto mechanics along the way. When not writing about her favorite destination of Patagonia, she tries to visit tropical nations. In the last seven years she has contributed to over a dozen Lonely Planet titles.
She has also wntten for National Geographic, Outside and Lonely Planet Magazine, among other publications.