Four short months after our last departure from Buenos Aires, we are back again, on another journey to visit more of this amazing continent. Our travels will take us through the Andean Northwest of Argentina, then into Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador…
Outrunning El Niño
February is not the ideal time to visit northern Argentina, yet here we were. It is the equivalent of August in North America and Europe so locals all are on vacation as well. In addition, this part of the country…
Exploring the Puna
Although the travel can be challenging, we soon realized that the highlands of Argentina’s Andean Puna are definitely worth visiting. Of course, we didn’t begin to realize this until about 24 hours after we crossed the border at Paso Sico……
On the Road Again…
Our wonderful week in Buenos Aires had come to an end and it was time to begin our road trip. We had hoped to take a ferry across Rio de la Plata directly to Montevideo, where we had our stored…
Never a Dull Moment
From the moment we touched down at Buenos Aires Airport, we knew that this would be a very exciting and action-packed week! We grabbed a taxi to our air b&b in the Palermo District, an animated tree-lined neighborhood filled with…
Places to Revisit
25 days. Traversing Argentine Patagonia had taken longer than we had expected and now we were on our way to Chile. This country is shaped like an icicle, long and skinny, with only 350 km (217 mi) at its widest…
Rolling on Ruta 40
It was time to embark on the legendary Ruta 40, the longest route in Argentina and one of the longest in the world. It runs parallel to the Andes Mountains, stretching over 5,000 km (3,107 mi) while going through some…
Gone with the Wind
To view our slideshow click HERE It has been a month since I posted our last blog, mostly because of the lack of reliable wifi, so we have many tales to tell. We returned through the harsh Patagonian steppe…
The Road to the End of the World
View our photo album for this blog HERE Time for a change of scenery and a look at one of the petrified forests in Patagonia. And so we continued along Ruta 3, the primary highway on the eastern coast. Along…
Sights from the Steppe
To view the slideshow for this post, you can click HERE On many of our adventures, the journey has been as exciting as the destination. Not so on the east side of Argentina, especially Patagonia. There are miles and miles…