Rio Gallegos, Argentina Travel Blogs

Day 125: December 17, 2007 Ushuaia to Río Gallegos
Dec 17, 2007 (7 photos)

... to take some pictures of the Pali Aike volcanic field at the Monte Aymond border crossing and along the road into Río Gallegos. There are a surprising number of small volcanoes there developed along the northern margin of the Straits of Magellan rift zone. ...

Rio Gallegos - 1 Museum per inhabitant
Feb 4, 2008 (11 photos)

Given we decided to spend a day at Rio Gallegos instead of pushing North we requested information at the Tourist office. What seemed to be a very dull town given it is only a stop over for most tourists, actually is quite lively with restaurants, shops, ...

Yep, again..
Oct 17, 2007

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Day 136: December 28, 2007 Estancia Angelina
Dec 28, 2007 (14 photos)

Day 136: December 28, 2007 Río Gallegos After buying groceries for lunch, we drove out to the mechanic's shop. He had not had the chance to look at it yet so we decided to do some exploring. The line at the police checkpoint and the subsequent grilling ...

Rio Gallegos
Feb 28, 2007

Rio Gallegos (Ga-shae-gos) is the city we had to travel to in our attempts to get from El Bolson to El Calafate. No buses run direct, so this is the route that must be taken. A pain in the ass no doubt, but necessary to see the Moreno Glacier. We may have ...

Day 139: December 31, 2007 Río Gallegos
Dec 31, 2007

Day 139: December 31, 2007 Río Gallegos Thanks to the closed shutter, we slept in until after 9:00. All three of us awoke, feeling refreshed. After breakfast, we took our laundry over to the laundramat and dropped it off. Next we dropped the car off at ...

Patagonia Wind
Jan 3, 2010 (13 photos)

... up again. We finally arrived at Rio Gallegos and were lucky enough to find a hotel which could accommodate us straight away. The Rio Gallegos Apart Hotel was the first Hotel to appear on our Zumo Navigation System, as the first Hotel as we entered town, ...

Day 150: January 12, 2008 Guayaquil to Río Gallego
Jan 13, 2008 (4 photos)

Day 150: January 12, 2008 Guayaquil to Río Gallegos, Argentina I awoke a couple of hours north of Santiago. I thought the flight was going to Buenos Aires first and then to Santiago. I was relieved to find that it was doing the opposite. We landed on ...

Leaving Ushuaia for Rio Gallegos
Apr 23, 2006 (1 photos)

Woke up at 6.30am to leave by 7.30 for the airport. We got to Rio Gallegos and had to wait for our bus to arrive. Then it finally arrive two hours after we had got there and we started out 5hr trip to Calafate!

Day 152: January 14, 2008 Río Gallegos
Jan 14, 2008

Day 152: January 14, 2008 Río Gallegos This is my last day in this strange, trash-covered town. I took a cab out to the bus terminal and changed my ticket but had to pay a 30% fine because I was doing it in the hour before departure. I went back to town ...

Just changing buses
Mar 13, 2007

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Lynn's letter to family
Dec 25, 2009 (1 photos)

... Family, We are having a rest day for Christmas at a little place with the long name of Comondante Luis Piedra Buena (N of Rio Gallegos). No wonder these Spanish speaking people speak so fast - by the time they have said their name and where they are from, ...

Almost there
Jan 24, 2009 (4 photos)

... . The Guanaco´s and sheep staring at us from their pasture, pink flamingos picking away for food in shallow ponds.We arrive in Rio Gallegos late in the evening and both of us are exhausted from the winds. January 24th      & ...

Day 61 - San Julian to Rio Gallegos, Argentina
Nov 25, 2007 (5 photos)

There was no power in our room again this morning.  That's okay, at least we had hot water and breakfast was on the table.  It was a cool day on the bikes, starting out at 1C and hit a high of 6C.  Brrrr.  We're riding with the windows ...

Capital of Patagonia
Oct 27, 2004 (3 photos)

... in El Calafate to be greeted by Dave, Kalvi and Tim. Matt had moved onto El Chalten and Tim was only travelling as far as Rio Gallegos with us, so he could get take the 36 hour bus journey north to Bariloche. The four of us had other plans however, get ...

Day 133:December 25, 2007 Calafate to Río Gallegos
Dec 25, 2007

... café but were totally ignored so all we had was coffee. After gassing up at the Petrobras station, we headed out of town toward Río Gallegos with a strong tailwind and a sunny sky. Megan made sandwiches in the back seat, using up the last of our food ...

On the Road
Feb 14, 2006

Nothing to see here just passing thru

A long way to go for a Chinese
Feb 24, 2007

... the country so we had to take a bit of a detour before we could get to El Chalten. This meant a 19hr semi-cama bus journey to Rio Gallegos (about 1500km since you ask - we didn't get as much sleep as we would have liked but it wasn't as bad as it sounds) ...

Bus Stop.
Nov 20, 2006

Passing through to Ushuaia.

Argentinian Patagonia
Dec 13, 2006 (5 photos)

... hopes of expecting a quaint old town on the lush green banks to a tree lined clean river. We were met by a different reality. Rio Gallegos is a large urban town - mostly with a bland industrial feel to it. The barren treeless dry scrub landscape seemed to ...

Bus Ramblings, Israeli Adam Sandler
Mar 6, 2008

... Argentina to get into northern Chile, another border cross.Whilst waiting for the Fernandez Bus that would take us to Rio Gallegos, we noticed a tough looking mechanic guy complete with biker beard and dressed in blue work overalls lounging against a wall ...

Cabo Virgenes
Dec 4, 2007

Not a real entry, just a marker on the map.

Rio Gallegos
Sep 20, 2008

... behind us it meant that we got a good night´s sleep and arrived in Rio Gallegos as fresh as could be expected. As we only spent a couple of hours in Rio Gallegos, there isn´t much to say about our stay.  So I will leave this entry now and move on...

Christmas
Dec 24, 2009 (18 photos)

... , in our riding gear and walked across to assess its potential. Good price, clean rooms, place to store the bikes (however, not under cover), wifi and breakfast included. So we settled in the Rio Santa Cruz Hotel for a couple of nights over Christmas. . .

Deep South Disaster
Jul 28, 2006

... , continuing our extensive tour of Crap Towns of Argentina by taking a eye watering 19 hour bus ride down here to Rio Gallegos, a stopping point on the way. Still, the Primera Classe offered by our preferred transport company, Andesmar, offers 6 excellent ...

Across the Argentinian Plains & a UK Wedding!
Nov 8, 2008

Blog and Photos to come!

Journey to the end of the world...NOT!!!
Dec 11, 2007

... and hopping on the first available bus to Ushuaia. When we arrived, the busses were full and we had to get a room for the night. Rio Gallegos is not much, but we did find a nice room in a hotel for only $86Arg. We were headed out in the morning when we ...

La mornitude
Feb 12, 2006

... à mourir d´ennui. Le seul musée que je voulais voir étant fermé, je n´ai pas trouvé mieux que de retourner dans un cybercafé. Río Gallegos, ville à rayer des guides touristiques!

The Old Town Looks the Same
Feb 4, 2008 (8 photos)

... of spent another night in Ushuaia as there was so much to explore there but unfortunately we had to book flights in advance. Rio Gallegos is a seriously dull place but we have managed to do some laundry - hooray clean clothes! They were in serious ...

Rio Gallegos
Feb 20, 2006

Hmm, not the most scenic of towns, more of a vast industrial estate with ridiculously wide roads, but I guess you can get away with that when there´s this much space. You gaze out the window of the bus and see flat dusty pampas as far as the eye can see, ...