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24th December 2022
Today I woke up early and decided to get ahead on my logistics before having to go to the hospital to get checked out. I ended up calling my insurance to start getting everything sorted, and managed to get my flight changed for free to leave the next day. After breakfast, I met with someone […]
23rd December 2022
Today I woke up not feeling so great after having had a difficult night, where I felt sick nd couldn’t drink any liquids in the night/ sleep throughout the night. I went to breakfast to see the group and talk to my guide so he could give me some recommendations on what to do. After […]
22nd December 2022
Today we woke up at 5:45 am, and straight away had to pack all of our stuff and tent, ready for our 6:30 am breakfast. Following breakfast at 7, we started walking down to the river where we were met by some mules. The mule driver armed with his 3 mules, ferried us 2 by […]
21st December 2022
Today we were woken up by the birds chirping outside at around 6am and had to start packing the inside of our tent, putting away our sleeping bags and organising everything into our bags. Once that was all done, we took everything out of the tent and started dismantling it and packing it away, before […]
20th December 2022
Today after being woken up by the birds chirping and the trucks roaring from the highway next door, we got up and finished packing all of the bags we would need for today. We first dropped off all of the equipment that would be carried by the mule before making our way to the mess […]
19th December 2022
Today we woke up after 10 hours of sleep, finally catching up the previous days of sleepless nights. We went down to breakfast and visited the local hire shop to get our rented equipment and finally complete our equipment checklist. Good thing we did because directly following it our guide came to our rooms to […]
18th December 2022
Just past midnight we boarded our flight to Argentina, a quick 3 hours in the dead of night. Thankfully i was able to take one of my 1000 naps of the day. We landed in Mendoza at 6am and after breezing through the Argentinian border, we were able to find all of our bags had […]
17th December 2022
Today we woke up at 4:30am and quickly finished packing before driving to the airport, there even though we arrived about 2 hours early, we were stuck in a long queue for checkin, which unfortunately took us an hour an a half to complete. This meant that when we finally reached the checkin counter, we […]
23rd March 2022
Today i was picked up by the tour company i would be doing the day trip with at 5am. I said goodbye to my friends from the tour and headed out in our minivan. Our first stop was at a fruit stand by the side of the road, where they made us try all different […]