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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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Buenos Aires to Dubai

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Day 14 – Buenos Aires

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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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