Friends of friends of my sister and mum and dad… That’s how we explain meeting up with a lovely sister and her step-daughter in Bariloche Patricia and Ariana (not sure how to spell her name and I did have trouble rolling my r’s so probably never said it right!) took us to a Mexican restraurant…
Sunday was another rainy day but we’d had enough relaxing so we bought 2 tiny umbrellas that wouldn’t hold up in the wind and went for a walk down to the bay area where there are some lookouts. About 1km down the road a German Shepherd cross (not sure what) came running down a very…
The mountain in Villa La Angostura has the most beautiful view we’ve seen at a ski hill! We caught an old bus up to the ski hill which took about 15-20 minutes from town. The best way to describe being in this bus from the 1950s, going up a dirty, bumpy track is to imagine…
We took a bus from Esquel to Villa La Angostura on Thursday morning. The lakes district here in Argentina is beautiful and taking our breath away! The scenery from Esquel to Bariloche to Villa La Angostura was just gorgeous. Bright blue clear lakes, green pine trees and snow capped mountains. Gorgeous!! We’ve decided that taking…
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…