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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 […]
21st March 2022
Today after one last breakfast with our family, this time we a type of stuffed cheese crepe, we started our way from Coope San Juan to San jose. However on the way we stopped to do another activity, rafting down a river with 2-3 level rapids. When we got to the starting point, they told […]
20th March 2022
Today after receiving a delicious breakfast from our family, we joined the other people from our group and were given bikes to go biking in the hills surrounding Coope San Juan. However the bikes they gave us were so bad, that mine barely had any brakes so i had to be carefull on any downhills. […]
19th March 2022
Today even though i woke up relatively early it was hard to do anything in the morning as the rain was pouring, so instead we just went to sushi for lunch, before getting on the bus to our next stop, Coope San Juan, a cooperative made up of multiple families a few hours awy in […]