Nibepo - Aike Ranch El Calafate

Time to relax after walking 100 kms. Whose stupid idea was that anyway? Anyway we arrived back in El Calafate mid afternoon and decided we would lay up for the next couple of days before heading to Buenos Aires and onto Porto Alegre. The hostel we were booked at was called I Keu Ken and as soon as we walked in the door we found it to be a great ...

Day 77:

It all began on a late January evening. It used to be known as 'winter
time' in Blighty, however, now at the bottom (or **** end as some
uncultured swines may deem it) of the world, it was now referred to as
'summer time'. The place: Rio Gallegos, Argentinian Patagonia. The
time: unknown due to the ridiculously l...

Hey. Been in absolute wildeness for past wk so now back online will be following this blog up with anoth** one soon.......


Having spent Christmas in Bariloche we then had 2 days traveling deep into Patagonia. The diff**ence in temp**ature was full on and even sat on the truck the wind was freezing - first time the heat**s have been...

Before I left to come on this trip, the top things that I wanted to do were:

* The Inca Trail
* The Amazon
* Riding on a ranch & learning how to play polo
* Sample local wines

What I didn'tīknow much about or had no expectations for was either the Salt Plains in Bolivia or the scenery in Patagonia. The journey o...

The most southerly point of our epic journey was to be had in el Calafate, a pretty but expensive town where swiss-like wooden cabins and souvenier shops abound. Stayed in a lovely little pousada owned by a young family, the father of which had 2 great talents. He was a brilliant chef (used to cook for the President apparently) and also a great ...

Having read Duncanīs latest travel blog entry Nadine had to admit that it was a pretty entertaining read. It was when Duncan said: "We canīt all be such geniuses" that Nadine thought to herself: "So ein Angeber, das kann ich jawohl genauso gut!" and decided that she would attempt to craft the next chapter for their epic travel blog in a sim...

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh...this is your captain speaking. Just wanted to give you folks a little bit of information before we get underway here. For all you non Argentinian natives there are probably a few things you need to know before flying domestically with us.

First, be advised that we may cancel your flight without warning. If we do, we may...

On Monday we took off for the glacier-the main reason we flew down south to El Calefate.
We were told it was defo worth the trip down as the glacier was supposedly meant to be unreal.
We stopped on route to take pics of Lago Argentina which is in El Calefate and a lake you can skate on. Once we reached the park we paid the usual park ent...

March 23-April 2, 2009: El Calafate, Argentina / P.N. Los Glaciares, Argentina / P.N. Torres del Paine, Chile Flying Through El Fin del Mundo Mary and I left BA for the airport on the morning of Mar 23. Our cab driver to the airport, a Chileno from Santiago, was one of the nicest dudes ever. Mary had left some money back at our guesthouse and th...

El Calafate - one of the staging points for two of the finest, and most defining, national parks of Patagonia. We arrived with the intention of seeing these parks; in Los Glaciares - the advancing Perito Moreno Glacier and in Torres del Paine - the vertical Torres themselves. We arrived in the early hours, and got settled into a bohemian hostel ...