When we arrived in Buenos Aires at the beginning of our trip, we spent most of our time trip planning and didn't venture far out of our neighborhood. We made sure to give ourselves a few days in the city before our flight left, so here we found ourselves! Spending our last few days of... Continue Reading →
From Mendoza, we flew to Cordoba, the second largest city in Argentina which is known for being home to several universities. The days in Cordoba felt like "stopover days." Our non-stop travels started catching up to us and the exhaustion started to set in, we needed to slow down a bit. We also both caught... Continue Reading →
From Mendoza we flew north to Salta where we rented a car for the first time on this trip to explore the countryside a bit. Our destination was Cachi, a little adobe pueblo a few hours west of Salta. We picked up the car and I was tasked with being the driver because Alex didn't... Continue Reading →
Our long bus journey brought us to Mendoza - the Argentinian city in the heart of the wine country boasting the Andes as a backdrop. A gorgeous landscape! Spa In addition to the hundreds of wineries peppered along the outskirts of the city, Mendoza is also known for several natural thermal spas. So in the... Continue Reading →
From Patagonia, we wanted to make our way north and a cheap one-way flight made the decision easy - our next stop would be Santiago de Chile! After being in small towns, or hiking, or on a boat for the last few weeks, we were looking forward to exploring a city again. We wandered around... Continue Reading →
As we were researching our trip, we felt like we couldn't visit Patagonia without doing at least a little mountain backpacking trip. The obvious answer was Torres del Paine - a national park in Chile with 2 famous backpacking circuits around a cluster of mountains. We chose the 'O Circuit' as it seemed to be... Continue Reading →
As we were planning our time in South America, we had a general idea of the places we wanted to visit but weren't exactly sure how to travel among all of them. When we stumbled upon the option to take a boat from Ushuaia, Argentina to Punta Arenas, Chile we couldn't get the idea out... Continue Reading →
Buenos Aires We arrived into Buenos Aires with little planned for our 2 months in South America besides our 4 nights booked in the city. We were immediately confronted with how little we had researched when we took our 1+ hour taxi ride from the airport to our apartment in the Palermo neighborhood. The taxi... Continue Reading →
Wandering Between Meals 