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Here you can read short updates of our whereabouts.

August 2024

05/10/2024 by Marcia

After the jaguar tour we stayed one more day at our wild camp spot near Porto Jofre so Finnley could run around a bit more and then we set off to drive the Transpantaneira out of Porte Jofre. This is a dirt road which goes, as the name already suggests, … Read more

Categories travel journal Tags brazil, holambra, sao paulo Leave a comment

Pantanal part two: Jaguars!

17/09/2024 by Marcia

There are about 6000 jaguars living in the Pantanal, most of them in the North part near Porto Jofre, although they can be seen in other parts of the Pantanal as well. The best season to spot them is the dry season as Jaguars hunt in the water and with … Read more

Categories travel journal Tags jaguars, pantanal, wildlife 2 Comments

Pantanal part one: the cattle boat

08/09/2024 by Marcia

As I wrote in our July blog we took so many photo’s during our Pantanal adventure that it required a separate blog. After spending about 4 hours organising all the material, it turned out we have 1067 photo’s and videos! So its not just going to be one separate blog, … Read more

Categories travel journal Tags brazil, cattle barge, corumba, pantanal, porto jofre, river 2 Comments

July 2024

08/09/202431/08/2024 by Marcia

August is (almost) over so high time for our July blog 🙂 On July the first we left Uruguay and crossed into Argentina again. For the last time though, since we were on our way to Paraguay. At the Argentinian border they did look a little suspicious at our passports … Read more

Categories travel journal Tags argentina, aruega, asuncion, brazil, caacupe, corumba, paraguay, uruguay Leave a comment

June 2024

04/07/202403/07/2024 by Marcia

Early June we finally arrived in Buenos Aires. We camped at Parque el Rosedal. A nice park about 8 km from the city centre and with a big parking lot. More overlanders have started coming here since Buenos Aires (BA) has absolutely no camp grounds or RV parks or anything … Read more

Categories travel journal Tags buenos aires, colonia, montevideo, titer, uruguay Leave a comment

May 2024

23/06/2024 by Kilian

The fist week of May was spend driving the Catamarca area. From there we drove to Cafayate, a nice town surrounded by coloured rock formations. Here we we also visited the Garganto del Diablo, a small canyon that ends in a bowl like shape. In the wet season you can … Read more

Categories travel journal Tags andes, argentina, catamarca, desert, mountain, river crossing, termales, volcano 2 Comments

Catamarca altiplano

14/06/2024 by Kilian

We drove the Catamarca Altiplano in the north-west of Argentina. We spend about a week in this area; 3 days at the altiplano. It was our toughest, most challenging drive yet. It started relaxed while driving from Fiambala to Las Papas, passing the dunes of Taton. After Las Papas we … Read more

Categories travel journal Tags altiplano, argentina, catamarca, desert, mountains Leave a comment

April 2024

12/05/2024 by Marcia

The first week of April was spend pretty much the same as March, in and around Mendoza. Late March we drove ruta 13 for the 2nd time, driving different parts now as well. We camped again in the Mendoza park. Here we met another overlanding couple Liesbet and Mark, with … Read more

Categories travel journal Tags argentina, hot spring, mendoza, ruta 13, ruta 40, santiago, termales 1 Comment

March 2024

25/04/2024 by Marcia

Well, this could be a very short blog. We spend the entire month of March in or around Mendoza, the end. 🙂 But I’ll elaborate a little. We spend about 7 weeks in or around Mendoza because of Finnleys eye treatment. Further down in this blog you can read if … Read more

Categories travel journal Tags argentina, mendoza, portrerillos, ruta 13, ruta 52, uspallata 4 Comments

February 2024

19/03/2024 by Marcia

So the first ten days of February I travelled alone as Kilian was in the Netherlands for his fathers funeral. Kilian had departed from the Bariloche airport and would also be coming back here again. So I decided to stay around Bariloche. We had been in this area before; the … Read more

Categories travel journal Tags argentina, bariloche, finnley, rescue, solo 4 Comments
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