Cruz Chica Hotel La Cumbre

So far, my favorite and certainly the cleanest town we've visited in all of Argentina. Beautiful, well manicured plazas and an attractive downtown business area are just a small part of it's charm.

The hills above offer great para-gliding and beautiful scenery from below. Today was a cloudy, grey day, but we decided to play golf at La C...

The company taking me horse riding still hadn't fixed their van, so I had to catch a mini-bus to La Cumbre. The bus went past beautiful lakes an many holiday parks as it gradually rose into the hills. In La Cumbre I got off the bus and looked around. I wasn't sure who was meeting me so I stood near the bus hoping someone would see that I didn't ...

Through our travels in South America we heard mix reviews on Death Road with some travellers telling us that it was insane to consider doing this as the road it not fit for cycling let alone driving to stories that said the trip was over rated and not that dangerous. I had to find out for myself. Booking a cycle trip down Death Road was similar ...

DAY 20 - BIKING DOWN THE MOST DANGEROUS ROAD IN THE WORLD.....GULP!! The inf*mous De*th Ro*d! He*ring the *l*rm the next morning I *utom*tic*lly pressed snooze but w*s woken 2 mins l*ter by Bilynd* our tour le*der s*ying where *re you? You should h*ve been in reception 5 mins *go. Bugger I h*dn't put the time forw*rd for Bolivi* - to s*y p*nic s...

This past week wind came from the north the entire time (what we need to take off here), but it was either too strong to fly or we had rainy weather (which we badly needed here, its really dry), so unfortunately there was no more flying for me here in La Cumbre. It was quite a chill week. Steffi came up to visit for two days. We had a great time...

Yesterday I was invited up to a mountain hut of some friends, Antonia and Tristan. Antonia is English, but was born and raised here in La Cumbre. I know Antonia through Noemi, as Antonia is Noemi's godchild and their families have been friends forever. Tristan and Antonia met in college while studying, then worked over in England for a few years...

So I have a new plan formed. There are a couple of different travelers that I have met along the way that want to meet up and go down to the Patagonia. The weather doesn't get nice down there until November though, so right now it's a matter of killing some time and aligning my schedule with other people. I had originally thought about spending ...

In Cordoba I found the group from Valparaiso. I went out for dinner with Mary, Nic and Kat, quickly seeing the Aussies and Phil after that. They were going out, but I had been stonmach sick for a few days: it was not reasonable to our beer on that, but more suprisingly I had no motivation to do so. I had tried to organise to go skydiving on sund...

I arrived by bus in Cordoba first thing in the morning. I checked my backs at the hostel and decided to go take a walk around town. The population is between 1 and 2 million and most of the city is centered around the Plaza San Martin. From there you can walk down a few streets that are lined with restaurants and shops. The college is also a cou...