Our Travel Time in Argentina – Budget Breakdown

Over a time frame of 5 weeks, with no less than 3 different entries into one of the largest countries of South America, Argentina really impressed us. Not only the amazing views, but also the prices. Let’s take you through our budget breakdown! Argentina was …

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Hiking guide for Cerro Fitz Roy in El Chaltén – Argentina

If there is one activity we both really love, we would say: hiking ! Like the time we went for the famous Torres Del Paine W-trek in Chile (more on How to prepare for Torres del Paine) or the many small and larger hikes we …

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Perito Moreno Glacier Ice Trekking in El Calafate, Argentina

So after the trekking days in El Chalten, the next stop more south in Argentinian Patagonia is El Calafate: home to the National Park Los Glacieros, with world-known glacier Perito Moreno. A visit to the glacier was on our South America must visits list. It’s …

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Perito Moreno Glacier – Photo Journal

We made just too many pictures while visiting the Perito Moreno Glacier in El Calafate. We even did an Ice trek on the glacier! So we had to make a selection of them… The Perito Moreno glacier, encased in an ancient mountain range, stretches for …

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Bariloche to El Chalten – the 23h bus ride on Ruta 40 in Patagonia

San Carlos de Bariloche, capital of the Rio Negro province, is the entry point of the upper north side of Argentinian Patagonia. In order to travel more south, more specifically to trekking capital El Chalten, there are only a few options available to bypass the …

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The quest for craft beer – South America (2)

After our first post about the Peruvian and Bolivian craft beer scene, we will continue on the remaining countries we’ll visit in South America. We’ve been in touch with the Peruvian craft beer association, who actually told us about the South American “Cup” of craft beers, …

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Planning Argentina & Uruguay

In our final part of the trilogy of planning for South America (Peru-Boliva and Chile-Patagonia), we’ll be in the Northern area of Argentina and Uruguay for almost 2 weeks. Our first part of the Big Trip will be getting to and end, yet we still plan …

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The quest for craft beer – South America (1)

One of our passions is beer. It’s true, we’re beer geeks. Being able to live in Belgium helps a lot: classical Trappist beers, beautiful Geuze beers, and plenty of changes in the craft beer scene, you name it, it’s all there in our small country. Small …

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Planning Chile & Patagonia

When we started looking at the map of South America and started our research about Chile, we realized two things: it’s a beautiful country with lots of things to see and do, but the darn place is oh so stretched (4,300 km) . Thus, we took this into …

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Preparing for a big trip: the Visa hassle (1)

So, you’ve decided to go on a trip. Far, not too far. One country, twelve countries. It does not really make a difference from a visa point of view. Eventually, one should always check for visa requirements. Visa application procedures can be a tedious process, …

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