Category: South America

Bus trip from El Calafate to Esquel…. was long. 23.5 hours in total. After a discussion on whether to walk or cab it to our hostel we decided to walk. Bad decision!! The hostel was miles away and to top it off when we got there the hostel was crap. Worst one yet. Not particularly…

We made the spectacular flight to Ushuaia on Friday afternoon! The scenery along the way was beautiful! Snow capped mountain peaks everywhere (well, everywhere while I was awake, I always fall asleep on the transporation, aeroplane, car, bus, anything)! As we approached Ushuaia the mountains were either side of the plane and you wondered where…

We’ve been hoping to be in a town covered in snow the whole time we’ve been in Argentina and we hadn’t seen it until this morning in El Chalten. After a night of crazy winds where we were getting blown the opposite way trying to walk home down the main street, we woke up to…

On Thursday we had a full day so we planned to do one of the longest hikes open in the El Chalten winter. The hike was to Laguna Torre which is at the base of the very cool Cerro Torre! The big pointy looking mountain which is apparently one of the hardest mountains to climb…

After a lot of deliberation, checking the weather for snow forecasts and trying to determine where to be for the right weather, we took a transfer from El Calafate to El Chalten Wednesday morning. El Chalten is the self proclaimed trekking capital of Argentina. It’s also Argentina’s newest city and has only 1000 permanent population…

The Perito Moreno Glacier made the 30 hours bus trip feel like it was WELL WORTH the trip. If only to just spend this one day down in El Calafate! We started the day with a trip out to the Glacier. It’s about an hours drive or 78 km away with a couple of stops…

We noticed people ice skating on the side of the lake when we were on our way back from Glacier Perito Moreno so of course we checked it out! Everywhere we stepped cracked! So it was very scary at first… then we realised that if it did break it was only mud underneath so it…

We arrived at our hostel in El Calafate and Matt booked a trip to a glacier straight away. We walked around the main town, it’s pretty quiet here as it’s winter time. Usually there’d be snow everywhere but like everywhere else we’ve been, it’s a warmer winter than usual so there’s no good snow. But…

So how was a 30 hour long bus ride you say??? It was fine!! You get food on the bus… and let’s just say it’s no airline food… Which means it’s pretty terrible. But that’s okay, they tried right?? Who gets food on a bus??? The first couple of hours on the bus were spectacular!…

We only had an afternoon and night in Bariloche but we will return. It’s a really scenic town on a beautiful big lake (Nahuel Huapi Lake). We wondered the town for food! And all the shops are chocolate shops!! OMG! Chocolate and ice cream and all things bad everywhere! We found an ice skating rink…