Today after having grab breakfast, we decided to go shopping for snacks and walk to carefour to get some delicious passion fruit tea and then walked to a local restaurant, which was out of the way to try a choripan, a local Argentinian hotdog. The cherry pen we got there was definitely an elevated version […]

Today we went down for breakfast and had breakfast decided to organise some activities for the following days including horse riding and a wine tour after talking with reception we figured out a good wine to to do that afternoon organised everything and decided to go to lunch to get some good empanadas.  We took […]

Today we got up at nine and enjoyed breakfast whilst planning what we would be doing today considering that most things are closed due to the fact that it was the 1st of January. We decided that it was worth going back to exactly where we had started to show the parents at Aconcagua because […]

Today, we woke up on the same mattress in Penitentes in the same apartment we had stayed in two weeks earlier. It was clear the place hadn’t been cleaned in all that time—I even found the same Aqua Pure tablet I had dropped during our previous stay. We went down for breakfast and loaded all […]

Today, we woke up early at 7 a.m. and quickly gathered our belongings to leave the dorm tent, avoiding further interaction with the eccentric person sharing the space with us, who bizarrely tried to buy our sleeping bags as we were packing. After breakfast, we attempted to call the restaurant to modify our New Year’s […]

Today, we planned to sleep in and have breakfast at 10 a.m., but that proved easier said than done. The wind howled all night, rattling the tent, and my sleeping bag—damaged with a cut—released feathers everywhere, causing me to cough constantly. By 8 a.m., we gave up on trying to sleep and got up to […]

Today began with my alarm going off at 3:45 a.m., after a night of trying to get as much rest as possible. As soon as the alarm rang, we rushed to get dressed, putting on all the clothing we had kept warm inside our sleeping bags overnight. Within 40 minutes, we were fully geared up […]

Today, we woke up at 7:30 a.m. and slowly began packing, figuring out what we would carry ourselves and what we would send with the porters. We decided to share 20 kg of gear between us, and by the end of it, we had packed 21 kg for the porters and 12.5 kg for me […]