El Calafate – Buenos Aires, Argentina I’ve been busing it around South America in general but I’ve been told by numerous people that I should fly from the south of Argentina to the capital, Buenos Aires. After contemplating this issue for a while, I did […]
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Day 218: Ice Ice Baby
El Calafate – Perito Moreno – El Calafate, Argentina A couple of days ago, I’d never heard of the word “crampons.” But today I found out that cramponing is a lot of fun! Honestly, I was dreading the glacier trekking excursion a bit. I was […]
Day 217: Sounds from Nowheresville
El Calafate, Argentina El Calafate has one main street and it’s very commercialized. Prices are high in town. Everything is geared towards tourism. I was asking around town regarding pricing to go visit the Perito Moreno glacier. Turned out that there’s only one price since […]
Day 216: Ushuaia vs. El Calafate
Puerto Natales, Chile – El Calafate, Argentina Woooohoooooo, Argentina! 20th country! For the past few weeks, I had been struggling to decide whether to go to Ushuaia or El Calafate after finishing up in Puerto Natales. Ushuaia claims to be El fin de mundo (The […]
Day 220: Pedro’s Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina I had heard from other travellers that Buenos Aires got good free walking tours like the ones in European cities. I told Pedro that my plan for the day was to join the tours. Pedro went “Oh, you went to the website? […]