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Ruta 40, Argentina
In Argentina!!! We ended up taking the bus from San Pedro de Atacama to Salta, skipping out on the Paso Jama. Maybe that sounds wimpy, but another week of a few nearly 5000m passes and huge expanses of...
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Old friends, Chiloé, Chaitén and Futaleufú
Qué placer es reencontrarse con grandes amigos después de un largo tiempo separados! La llegada a Río Cuarto fue muy emotiva, viendo a Ana y el pequeño Oli en la estación. Pasamos unos días muy...
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Lagos argentinos/ Argentinian lakes
Reluctantly, we left Futaleufu and headed down the mountain to Argentina and sunny weather. In retrospect, we should have stayed in Futaleufu a bit longer and taken more advantage of all it had to...
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7 lagos y volcán Lanín/ 7 lakes and Lanín Volcano
The Road of the 7 Lakes from Villa la Angostura to San Martín de los Andes held much promise. 107 total Kms of a mix of paved and dirt roads and beatiful opportunities to camp. The road was undulating,...
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Villarrica/ Puyehue
The descent into the Chilean lakes region had us once again on a dirt road. This time, it was fairly rough and fairly steep and we were glad to be going down the road rather than up. We headed towards...
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Carretera Austral (i): Coyhaique- Puerto Tranquilo
We resumed our trip along the Carretera Austral in Coyhaique, having already done much of the top half of the road on our previous trip down from Puerto Montt. As some friends told us about a horrible...
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Carretera Austral (ii): Puerto Tranquilo- O Higgins
El nuevo año nos recibió con un sol radiante con el que disfrutar nuestro camino junto al lago General Carrera, el más grande de Chile (llamado lago Buenos Aires en el lado argentino). Después de...
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O Higgins- Lago del Desierto
* Sentimos mucho el enorme retraso al escribir esta última parte de nuestro viaje. Desde que nos decidimos a cruzar los lagos para llegar a El Chaltén nos pareció que el viaje acabó muy rápido y desde...
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El Chaltén
El Chaltén, though touristy, was in a spectacular setting. It happens to be a climber´s mecca, but even the hikes offer tremendous views. Luckily, the Argentinians have not totally exploited the...
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Torres del Paine- Glaciar Perito Moreno
And there we were, on the last leg of our adventure. After priming our legs in El Chaltén, we decided that we would try to conquer the mother of all national parks: Torres Del Paine. It was not so much...
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