Argentina

Country N°30 - July 2014

Day 9 – Flight back to Paris

Today is Christmas day which made it a bit more complicated to travel, as there were practically no taxis in the city, and after struggling to order one by phone or uber, I downloaded a local app and managed to find one that bought me to the airport, earlier than planned but better early than […]

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Day 8 – Mendoza

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 […]

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Day 7 – Evacuation from Base camp

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 […]

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Day 6 – Casa de Piedra -> Base Camp

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 […]

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Day 5 – Pampa de Lenas -> Casa de Piedra

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 […]

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Day 4 – First day of trekking

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 […]

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Day 3 – Mendoza & Penitentes

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 […]

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Day 2 – Mendoza

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 […]

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Day 1 – Flight to Mendoza

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 […]

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Day 13 – Ushuaia

Today 3 of us went on a 4×4 escursion throught the mountains of Ushuaia, which ended up in a lake where we got to canoe and then in a lodge where we got a Parilla ! , at one point our driver even got out of the car while it was still running, and was […]

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Day 12 – Ushuaia

Today we went to the port to take a boat through the beagle channel, where we got to see , sealions and penguins, aswell as a landmark of Ushuaia ( the lighthouse) !

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Day 11 – Ushuaia

 Today we took another bus to go to Ushuaia the southern most city in the world, the bus took us throught the argentinian border ( where i got my 11th argentina stamp (they love to stamp) ) and on a little ferry , finally 12 hours later we arrived in Ushuaia !

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Day 4 – El Calafate

Today we were supposed to go ice climbing, but unfortunately due to to much wind, we were unable to go , and therefore decided to go hiking to a local waterfall, after getting a breakfast crepe ! after the hike, we took a bus to the city of el calafate ( the city where we […]

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Day 3 – Glacier National Park

 Today we met up early at 8:30 to go on our first hike of our trip to go to Fitzroy mountain , a 22 km round trip, we got really lucky because when we got to the top , the mountain was completely clear, and aparently this only happens every 3 days, so only 30% […]

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Day 2 – El Chaten

Today we woke up super early and took a bus to the airport at 5 am ready for our flight at 8 to el calafate !, when we got on the plane there was a lot of free places, so i got to sleep on a whole row of 3 seats !, we landed next […]

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Day 1 – Buenos Aires

 Today was the First day of my tour, so i packed my stuff and headed to the hotel, where i met my group. after an introduction the the trip we would be taking, 5 of us went to a good parilla, before going back to the hotel, ready to wake up at 4am the next […]

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Day 59 – Iguassu Falls

today we went back to argentina to visit the argentinian side of the falls, but due to a flood about a month ago, half the bridges were broken and we werent able to see everything, after some walking around, we went on a 4×4 through the jungle to the bottom of the river where we […]

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Day 58 – Iguassu Falls

today we finally finished the last night bus of our trip and arrived in Foz de iguassu, the city the closest to the iguassu falls on the brazillian side, we went to our hotel dropped our stuff and grabbed something to eat quickly, before going to the falls on the brasilian side. once at the […]

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Day 51 – Buenos Aires

today i was met in the morning by the g adventure ceo i had talked to the night before who owns an apartement, and after a brief introduction we started walking towards the apartement ( a 20 min walk from the hotel ) during which i was shown the important places on the way and […]

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Day 50 – Buenos Aires

today i spent the day on internet looking for accomodation online and had almost given up until my previous tour guide gave me the contact details of another g adventures tour guide who owns an apartement and planned to show me his apartement the next day . in the afternoon, i went to the 4th […]

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Day 49 – Buenos Aires

Today we woke up super early (4am to take our 6am flight) to buenos aires, but unfortunately it was cancelled so we had to wait until the next flight at 10 am which was 30 min late, but at least we got a free breakfast. once we arrived in buenos aires, we took a private […]

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Day 48 – Salta

Today we were met by taxis to take us to a ranch about an hour outside of the city, where we got breakfast and started our horserinding tour around the village and fields for 3 hours , starting off by walking and then learning how to trott, after that just before going back, we got […]

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Day 47 – Salta

Today we took a bus n the morning to argentina , which took us 12 hours including a 3 hour stopover to pass through the argentinina border, which was torture as it was super slow, and super boring . we finally arrived in salta at 10pm argentinian time and had just enough time to go […]

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