We arrived in Bariloche just before Easter and the town was getting ready for its Easter celebrations. Bariloche sits in the Argentinian Lake District and has a distinct Alpine feel to it, and indeed the …
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Ruta 40 – Journey back North
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We left El Chalten at sunrise and the beguiling Mount Fitz Roy was standing proud bathed in orange, in complete contrast to the various shades of blue in the previous days. It is a stunning …
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The tourist town of El Chalten sits at the northern end of the National Park and has been massively developed in recent years to service the nearby tourist industry as Argentina has created facts on …
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The journey North from Ushuaia, took us back across Tierra del Fuego and a repeat visit to the famous bakery at Tolhuin to pick up supplies on our journey North. After passing through the border …
Continue readingTierra del Fuego – The End of The World
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From Torres del Paine we carried on down South to Ushuaia, the most Southerly permanent settlement in the World on the Island of Tierra del Fuego. The border between Argentina and Chile at the Southern …
Continue readingTorres del Paine – The W Walk
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Into Chile our first destination was the awesome Torres del Paine National Park, the location for four days trekking on the W Walk, a trek shaped like the letter W that goes up and down …
Continue readingEl Calafate – Perito Moreno Glacier
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After driving through the dry landscape of Argentinian Patagonia we reached the massive Southern Peaks of The Andes at El Calefate, a tidy tourist town on Lago Argentino, that services the nearby UNESCO World …
Continue readingCamarones and RN3 – Western Patagonia
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A day’s drive to the south of Puerto Madryn we pitched camp in a small coastal town called Camarones. The principal sight here is a colony of Magellan Penguins where there is a walkway …
Continue readingPuerto Madryn – Wales in Argentina
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Two days out of Buenos Aires we arrived in our first Patagonian town, Puerto Madryn, a piece of Wales in Argentina. The first settlers in Puerto Madryn came form Wales to build a new life …
Continue readingBuenos Aires – Final Thoughts
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Buenos Aires began to significantly develop at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when Argentina’s agribusiness began to export to Europe and the rest of the world. The money generated from this …
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