Category: Country
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Arrival in Mendoza
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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…
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Goodbye Patagonia
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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…
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Refugio Tour in El Bolson
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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…
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Refugio Otto Meiling
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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.…
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5 Lagoons Trek
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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…
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Tour cancellation – Nahuel Huapi Traverse
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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…
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Last hikes around Ushuaia
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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…
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Sierra Valdivieso Circuit
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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…
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Christmas Eve at the end of the world
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To Punta Arenas – Friday 22.12.2023 After we finished our 8-day hike on the O-Circuit yesterday, today we continued south to Punta Arenas. After a quick breakfast at the campsite, we dismantled our tents and headed back to the bus station. From here we left on a coach at 11am.…
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O Circuit – Day 5 to day 8
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Day 5 – Monday 18.12.2023 Although we had a smaller route ahead of us today after the longer tour yesterday, we got up at 6:30 a.m. and packed everything up. After breakfast we set off again today with our large backpacks. Since we only had a short tour and there…
