From Calafate, we marched back up the coastline some 3000+ kilometers to the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires (BA), located on the southern banks of the Rio de la Plata river. Actually we road a direct bus for 42 hours (two days two nights) and arrived in BA a bit worn and slimey. I dont [...]
We left Puerto Natales, Chile for the Argentine border crossing in the middle of nowhere on a 5 hour trip down a dirt road. The Argentine border patrol station had a pingpong table set up in the room adjacent to where we had to get the entrance stamp, so naturally we wandered over and struck [...]
Hello diary, I’m going to basically take some of this summary of our trek to Torres del Paine from Paul’s mass email he just sent to his friends so as to save me time in writing what would be much the same information. A work authored by Paul and revised and edited by yours [...]
Hey, two days in Ushuaia were just enough for us… We arrived at night and found a hostel where there were actually a couple of people staying despite the frigid cold. We figured this place would be deserted because its really between seasons. (summer travel season and winter ski season) It might have been [...]
To cross to Tierra del Fuego you have to cross the Straight of Magellan or Estrecho de Magallanes at Bahia Azul (blue bay). The ordeal was pretty nifty and cold, we waited for the ferry to arrive while looking into the clear waters seeing straight (heh, heh, heh) down to the bottom, someone said they [...]
Tierra del Fuego, the Land of Fire is the huge island group at the very tip of the southern cone of South America. The majority of the area is claimed by Chile but the two big cities there are on the smaller Argentinian side: Rio Grande and Ushuaia , the later of which is the [...]
Monday Tuesday and Wednesday we took a 3 day trek into the Patagonian mountains right outside Bariloche with two californian girls, Ana and Dalia, to keep us company and give us some comedic relief. The bus dropped us off at the base of Cerro Catedral at the ski slopes, no snow yet. We hiked [...]
Sunday we woke early to execute a highly planned bike ride along the huge Lago Nahual Huapi (photo) on a 56 kilometer ride dubbed the Circuito Chico, “Small Circuit” in english, which was anything but chico, but definitely a beautiful and worthwhile trip. We rented bikes for $15 pesos (bout 5 bucks americano) and [...]
We decided to take a trip a bit to the south to see the artsy hippy-ish town of El Bolsón “comunidad no nuclear” as the sign read as we arrived in town (interpret that as you wish). We shlightly overshlept after a long night and didn’t quite make it in time to catch the [...]
We left Chilóe island on the day the weather went south… our voyage also took a detour and we are now headed into Argentina via Osorno to the town of Bariloche, a ski resort town situated inside the National Park Nahual Huapi on the western shore of the 180 km long lake that bears the [...]
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