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The Andino Lake Crossing
Today was a 12 hour traveling day. It involved 2 countries, 4 buses, 3 catamarans, and two cars. I went from Puerto Varas to Bariloche, but the long way. The route originally started as a way to ship wool to Puerto Montt and then on to Europe in the 1800s. The building of the Panama
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Puerto Natales 🇵🇷
Puerto Natales is a small town in Chile that became famous when the fossilized remains of a prehistoric sloth, Milodon, was discovered in 1895. It is better known now as the gateway to Torres del Paine National Park, but the town embraces both in its decor and souvenirs. About 18,500 people live in the small
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Torres del Paine and Cueva del Milodon
It takes about an hour and a half to get from Puerto Natales to Torres del Paine 130km away, but there is plenty to see on the way. Our bus stopped at Cerro Castillo (the border crossing village I came through the day before). Here, passengers could grab a snack or souvenir and go to
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El Calafate to Puerto Natales, Chile
This morning, I caught an eight am. bus from El Calafate, Argentina to Puerto Natales Chile. It’s a five hour bus ride through rolling pampas (grasslands). A ticket on a comfortable regular bus costs 25,000 pesos. There are a couple of bus companies that offer rides to this destination several times a day, so double-check
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El Calafate
While people come here mainly for the Glacier National Park, I did have an extra day and wanted to explore the town. After a brief consultation with the front desk at my hotel, Koi Aiken, I came to the realization that there isn’t much of a main street. Instead, I decided to walk along the
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Perito Moreno Glacier
This morning, I took a trip out to the Glacier National Park. It is a Unesco World Heritage Site and home to the world’s 3rd largest ice sheet of fresh water after Antarctica and Greenland. The park is located 80km from the closest town of El Calafate, population about 25,000. The glacier itself is named
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Tierra del Fuego, again
In order to create a more stable population in Ushuaia, a penal colony for repeat offenders was developed, with the first prisoners arriving in 1884. After being sent to the very bottom of the South American continent, the prisoners were put to work building their own prison. I applaud the sheer creativity in developing this
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Ushuaia Again…
I flew back to Ushuaia from Buenos Aries. It was a 3 1/2 hour flight. If you ever fly out of the domestic airport, you need to go two hours ahead to get through the long check-in line. When I arrived, I learned that the next day was a planned strike, so no flights would
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Buenos Aires in two days
After my incredible Antarctica cruise, I had two more days in Buenos Aries. I stayed in a three star hotel, Loi Suites Esmerelda, in the same neighborhood as my previous airbnb. I was much too early to get my room, so they stored my luggage, and off I went on a walk and lunch. After
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