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Here you can read short updates of our whereabouts.
After our very quiet non-celebration of the New Year, we left our remote place behind and drove north, back in to Chile again, for the 5th time. We had planned one more stop in Chile; Torres del Paine. This national park is the tourist attraction of Chile. Also known as … Read more
At the beginning of December we drove to El Chalten in Argentina. This town is located at the foot of mount Fitzroy. An iconic mountain in national park Los Glaciares. This park is quite big and we would also visit other parts of it. But whatever part we visited, it … Read more
The Perito Moreno glacier is located in the national park Los Glaciares, close to Calafate Argentina. The national park is a lot bigger than “just” this glacier and in our December blog you will be able to read about our other visits to another part of this national park. However … Read more
After visiting the volcano Osorno, we drove further South. Our plan was to drive the Carretera Austral all the way to national park Patagonia. However, you can’t drive all the way. Due to the many fjords (Patagonia Chile reminded us of Norway) at some point you will have to take … Read more
Early October we left Santiago and drove on to Rancagua a city south of Santiago. Kilian had ordered new tires online and here was the garage that would exchange our tires. After so many days in an apartment in a big city, we -and of course Binkie- longed for a … Read more
After leaving San Pedro de Atacama we drove to Antofagasta, a big city on the North coast of Chile where we went to several big supermarkets stocking up on things we had missed such as nut free chocolate spread (I’m allergic), couscous, red pesto, good chocolate and we even found … Read more
At the beginning of August we left Sucre behind us on the way to Potosi. However we realised that this would also mean leaving Bolivia behind us pretty soon. Since we were having such a great time in Bolivia we decided to take a detour and see more of this … Read more
This route goes through a Bolivian national park: Reserva Nacional de Fauna Andina Eduardo Avaroa. There are, as the name suggests, many Laguna’s. Laguna Colorado is probably the most famous one. If you follow the entire route you can drive in to Chile, which is what we did. The route … Read more
