After our indulgent tour of glaciers we spent a day travelling north to Bariloche, 1.5 hours by plane. This mountainside ski town overlooks beautiful lake Nahuel Huapi and has extreme Swiss/German influence. Indeed, a few Nazis were found here and returned for war crime trials. Apparently Juan Peron was a friend of Hitler. Anyway, the… Continue reading Winding Down in Bariloche and Mendoza
Tag: Patagonia
El Chalten and El Calafate
Let me be clear: I am not a hiker. I am a 64 year old roly poly woman of Polish heritage with short legs. I breathe heavily and walk slowly. Greg’s the hiker, I am a walker. I’ll walk 18 holes of golf. I’ll far outpace Greg on a flat sidewalk shopping in a city… Continue reading El Chalten and El Calafate
The ‘W’, a Patagonian Hiking Adventure
Day -1. We had a meet up with our guide, Baru, at the Chile Nativo travel office in Puerto Natales. A smallish man with rangy black hair and an impish smile, it seemed as if Baru was measuring us up as much as we did him. Distances and elevation didn’t seem so far on the… Continue reading The ‘W’, a Patagonian Hiking Adventure
Patagones
Our South American adventure continued as we headed north spending a couple days in Punta Arenas after disembarking the Stella Australis. We were now on continental Chile, on the northeast side of the Magellan Strait. To the east and south is the island of Tierra del Fuego, shared with Argentina with Ushuaia at the south.… Continue reading Patagones
Fin del Mundo
We probably overstayed at Ushuaia waiting to disembark on our adventure cruise. We revisited the prison/maritime/art museum in the morning after checking out of the hotel and taking our bags to the port. Nothing new was learned although we saw some nice water color paintings beautifully presented in the tiny prison cells, now painted white… Continue reading Fin del Mundo
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