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Busing it into Northern Argentina
Bahia Blanca After an overnight bus ride I arrived early morning to Bahia Blanca. I’d already at this point decided to move on and get myself to Mendoza and bought my ticket to the next city along the way – Neuquen. Thebus there was another overnighter, so it actually worked out nice to spend theday…
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Puerto Madryn
Upon arriving in Comodoro Rivadavia I decided to catch the next bus further north to the city of Trelew. The Lonely Planet didn’t have much positive to say about Comodoro, and checking online the forums seemed to agree it wasn’t really place worth stopping at. It was 7:30am and Trelew was 6 hours away, so…
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El Calafate – Real Snow, Ice Covered Streets, and One Huge Blue Glacier
The small town of El Calafate is located pretty much as far south in Patagonia as you can get. Further south and you’re into the area ominously called Tierra del Fuego (The Land of Fire). While the town has a catering for tourists, it stillretains a small town feel. The tourists flock here for one…
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Into Argentinian Patagonia
El Bolson The first stop along the journey into southern Patagonia was to the town of El Bolson. I’d read this place was some kind of ecofriendly hippy town, so needless to say I had some preconceived notions on what to expect. It was of course nothing like I was envisioning – no crazy dreadlocked…
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Bariloche – Welcome to Argentina and the Snow!
The walk from the hostal to the bus terminal was freezing. Only about 20mins away, the early morning cold pretty much froze my hands into numbness until I warmed up with a coffee from the nearby petrol station. It was unfortunately a Nescafe machine made coffee, but it was better than nothing at 7:30 in…
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The Chilean Lakes District
Pucon – Tourists, a Lake and a Volcano Pucon is a major tourist town in Chile. The small town is loaded with restaurants, cafes, outdoor adventure tour companies and healthy dose of cold weather equipment shops. The tourist masses are a mix of foreigners and locals, all millingaround a beautiful town that sits by a…
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Middle Chile and the into the Lakes District
This is a photo absent entry, as there isn’t anything interesting or noteworthy in Middle Chile… Talca – Why am I here? Presilla was the name of the girl on the bus from Santiago to Talca. She had asked why I wanted to visit Talca and I was at a loss for an answer other…
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Santiago
The capitol of Chile and possibly the easiest city I’ve come across to simply walk around. Everything is in walking distance, however that may not be saying too much as there really isn’t a lot to see and do in Santiago. It’s certainly a nice city,in a very westernised way, but there’s not much particularly…
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Valparaiso: Where Art meets City
Valparaiso, or Valpo for us locals, is the countries cultural capital and a UNESCO city. As I’ve mentioned previously, Chile defies being what you’d expect from a South American country and Valpo turns that up a few notches. Sitting on the Pacific Ocean it is a major port city and the bulk of the city…
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Hello Chile. Am I even in South American anymore?
Rest Stop in San Pedro de Atacama San Pedro is strange and unusual town. Out in the Atacama desert it’s the launching point to visit the Salar de Uyuni from the Chilean side of the border, or the finishing point if you’re running that circuit from Bolivia like I had done. It’s a good way…
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