Author: f.hoehn

  • Culture instead of hiking

    Culture instead of hiking

    Wine tour – Friday 09.02.2024 In order to find out a little more about wine growing in the region, I booked a half-day wine tour for today. Since this wasn’t supposed to start until 2 p.m., I still had half a day to relax. So I treated myself to a…

  • Travel to Cerro Aconcagua

    Travel to Cerro Aconcagua

    Too dump to take the bus – Thuesday 06.02.2024 So the visitor to Aconcagua Park was scheduled for today. Just before 5 my alarm went off. I got up, got ready and then left my room to walk to the bus station. After a few minutes I reached the building…

  • Arrival in Mendoza

    Arrival in Mendoza

    After leaving Patagonia behind me after almost 3 months, it was now time to travel further north. My next destination was the city of Mendoza in the province of the same name in Argentina. The province of Mendoza is the main wine-growing region in South America, producing most of the…

  • Goodbye Patagonia

    Goodbye Patagonia

    Back to Bariloche – Thursday 01.02.2024 After visiting the various refuges in El Bolson over the last few days, I had to travel back to Bariloche today. Since I only had to take the bus back, I stayed in my tent a little longer today. At around 9:30 I packed…

  • Refugio Tour in El Bolson

    Refugio Tour in El Bolson

    After the last tours in Bariloche, I wanted to travel further in the next few days to the former hippie village of El Bolson, which is almost 120 km south of Bariloche. There I planned a few smaller hikes to the various refuges in the area. Drive to El Bolson…

  • Refugio Otto Meiling

    Refugio Otto Meiling

    Refugio Otto Meiling – Thuesday 23.01.2024 Since I did the 5 Lagoons Tour in 3 days instead of 5, I still had enough food for another short tour in the surrounding area of the national park. So today I wanted to go up to one of the huts here again.…

  • 5 Lagoons Trek

    5 Lagoons Trek

    After I unfortunately had to break off my last tour after the second day and didn’t want to sit around in the nice weather, I chose another multi-day hike for the next few days. This time it will go along 5 lagoons from Colonia Suiza, a small Swiss-style village, to…

  • Tour cancellation – Nahuel Huapi Traverse

    Tour cancellation – Nahuel Huapi Traverse

    Since my last blog post, I left Ushuaia and took the plane to Buenos Aires and from there to Bariloche. The city, also known as the Switzerland of South America, offers some beautiful trekking tours. In addition to the Nahuel Huapi National Park, which was founded in 1922 and is…

  • Last hikes around Ushuaia

    Last hikes around Ushuaia

    Laguna del Caminante (Day 1) – Thursday 04.01.2024 After recovering from my last hike yesterday and looking for new tours, today I had another smaller hike on the agenda. I had chosen a day hike to Laguna del Caminante. Instead of completing this in one day, I wanted to split…

  • Sierra Valdivieso Circuit

    Sierra Valdivieso Circuit

    For the following days I have planned another multi-day tour through the wilderness of Patagonia. Not far from Ushuaia is the Sierra Valdivieso Circuit, which takes about 4 days and leads through the landscape over partly unmarked paths. I have planned 3-4 days for the almost 45 km and will…