Month: December 2007

This abandoned whaling station had a few marked graves at it, where bodies were just covered in rocks and marked with a cross. In the background you can…

Mount Fitz Roy is in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in Patagonia, on Argentina/Chile border. These mountains and the surrounding ice field make their own weather system so…

I hitch-hiked here from El Calafate, where I was staying in a small hostel for a few days. Once I had walked to the main road from town…

This is ideal cottage country with beautiful scenery and year-round activities to keep you healthy and happy. It doesn’t get any better than this. Location: Lago Perito Moreno,…

I’m not in the business for marketing hotels, but this five star hotel and resort is incredible. I was recommended to visit the Llao Llao for their breakfast…

Often referred to simply as Bariloche, this beautiful town lies on the shore of Nahuel Huapi Lake in the foothills of the Andes Mountains. It’s hard to imagine…

For those of you who have traveled to Latin America, you know that a visit to the Plaza del Centro, or any other public park, is a great…

Looking up at the castle on the hill at Cerro Santa Lucía in Santiago, Chile. Location: Cerro Santa Lucía, Santiago, Chile

In the window of an aging Catholic cathedral in Santiago, Chile, sits this stone carving of a ship used during the Christian Crusades nearly a millennium ago. Location:…

From the entrance to Cerro Aconcagua National Park, you hike up the Horcones river valley to a low camp at Confluencia, and then onward to Plaza de Mulas,…

The Andes are full of colourful mountains due to the different minerals in the rock oxidizing differently. Also being quite high, the sky was often a super deep…