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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El Chalten – Changing Mountains
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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 …
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