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El Calafate's airport runway

Day 219: Mi Casa Es Tu Casa

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 […]

Trekking Perito Moreno

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 […]

Cat smelling plant

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 […]

Horse in a field

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 […]