On April 6. Vinc and me started our 4 month long, exciting travel through south america. Everything was kind of planned and in the last seconds we got all the vaccinations and paper work organised.
Our flight went over London, where we had one nice day of sight seeing before we continued to Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. Here we explored the city and had a nice, relaxed start with eating a lot of empanadas, dancing (ok, mostly watching) Tango, seeing local markets and just enjoying the argentinian life style.
After one week we flew south to the so called "end of the world", to Ushuaia. Here the weather was definetly colder and we spent one night in the national park, freezing in our little tent ;o)However hiking was great here and we had an amazing view from C. Guanaco. Afterwards we went north to El Calafate over Rio Gallegos and further to El Chalten where we did some nice hiking tours in the park near Fitz Roy. Unfortunately we saw mostly clouds and the wind was super strong.
When I saw the Perito Moreno, I got a good chill all over my back. This glacier is the most awesome natural and still growing mass of ice I have ever seen.
From El Calafate we took a bus to Puerto Natales where we did a 4 day camping trip in the awesome "Torres del Peine" national park. We hiked with 4 other people from italy, france, new zealand and bolivia and, even though the weather was not always on pour side, we had a super fun time. Now the travel goes on to Santiago...I'll be back with more pictures. Some snapshots from our trip including Buenos Aires-Ushuaia-Perito Moreno-El Chalten-Torres del Peine so far (unfortunately not sorted) you can see here: Gallery: South america 2011
Gallery: South america 2011 the 2nd
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