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Today was my third day in Salta – and I had signed up for a mega-tour – going about 550km. We started in the early morning (with the offroad version of a Renault Kangoo) – roughly following the route of … Continue reading
Today I had to get my bus ticket for the drive up to San Pedro a few days later; so I decided to stay in and explore the town of Salta.
Of course I had took the opportunity to take the Teleferico up Cerro San Bernado to get up St. Bernard mountain for a different perspective the city; my walk around also covered the churches in town, as well as a number of museums.
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The second part of my trip had started; I made it all the way from Argentina’s deep South to its high North – the Salta / Jujuy region. I had specifically picked this region, as contrast against the icy wonders, … Continue reading
I made it back to Buenos Aires for two more days in town.
I continued my explorations, basically visiting those places I had not seen when I stayed there before – including La Boca and Puerto Madero.
After two days of winery tours I had enough of wine and went for another day of outdoor fun – Rafting it had to be this time. Three others from my hostel and myself signed up for a full day rafting trip and therefore had – as the only ones doing the full day tour – a boat for ourselves.
We were on the water for around two hours before we had a lunch stop at an abandoned train station in the middle of nowhere (it felt a bit like in a horror movie…).
After lunch we had a further two hours on the boat back to the starting point … photos were taken on the way …
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As already mentioned, the Mendoza region is producing the majority of Argentinian wine. As the weather conditions remained bad (rain, temperatures below 20 degrees), I decided to go on wine tours for two days; visiting some of the wineries, with … Continue reading
I was finally on myself … flying over to Mendoza, Argentina’s wine capital and also a good hub for any kind of outdoor activity.
I spent my first full day in Mendoza with a hike up to Cerro Arenales. It was enjoyable hike, however not in the most favorable weather conditions. We started off in light rain, which turned to hail and finally snow during the ascend; of course there was also no view … as we were basically within the cloud.
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Second day after the tour; Steve and myself went over for Uruguay for the day. We left Buenos Aires in the morning on the Buquebus ferry. After about three hours on the ferry we arrived in Colonia del Sacramento, a … Continue reading
The tour to Patagonia was over; we made our way back to Buenos Aires – and to make it short, I was overwhelmed by the big city – traffic, noise, fumes etc. – so I decided to take a train up to Tigre – the gateway to the Rio de la Plata delta. In Tigre I had a look around town to then take a two hours boat tour to get a view of the delta with its little islands … so in total an enjoyable and relaxing day.
Another short flight got us down to Ushuaia – the southernmost city of the world (it is only small settlements and research stations further south). We only had around 1.5 days down here, so activities were somewhat limited, also as the weather was not the best … below some impressions.
