Andes

Thanks for coming to read about my big adventure. You must be curious to see whether I make it, given the "have you gone soft in the head" expression on most of your faces when I told you about my plan. Most of you seem to think that what I am doing is ...

... the western side of the continent". I now realise after a bus ride from Santiago to Mendoza just how wrong i was.... The Andes are absolutely spectacular. From the shades of red, brown, grey and yellow mountains to the turquoise lakes, they are ...

Because of our resounding success hitching we tried to get up early and continue hitching to San Martin De Los Andes. This failed imediatly as we slept in till 11am but we got hitching and there were very few cars. We walked, and walked, and walked and ...

Destination 19 - ARGENTINA!!   Day 1 - Goodbye Chile, across the Andes to Argentina via the Tromen Pass!   Saying a sad goodbye to our homely wooden hostel and owner, we waited for yet another bus for our journey to our next destination. The ...

... films we realised we were only about an hour away and started paying attention to the landscape. Inexplicably instead of seeing the Andes rise up before us we actually dropped off an escarpment into a huge canyon. Once at the bottom then everything ...

The four hour bus ride from Bariloche to San Martin de los Andes was absolutely breathtaking. We drove through the Andes on a road called 'a Chapelco y 7 Lagos' (The 7 Lakes Road). People pay money just to tour this road, so we were so lucky to see it ...