Working our way back to civilization!

We have completed Route 40 and to be honest, I'm sick of gravel roads now. Luckily Route 3 north is paved and we can enjoy the smooth ride of tarmac.

We have been havng a good time though, since I last blogged we have visited Glacier Moreno. It was more beautiful in person than I, or photos, can describe accompanied by a soundtrack of crashing ice as it plummets into the sea sporadically.

Following this we entered Chile for the first time. Onwards to Puerto Natales, the nearest town to Torres del Pain national park. There we took on a two day hike, camping in the woods with the help of the equipment provided by our extremely kind hostel host Andreas. It was heavy and lengthy scaling the mountain to the campsite with our tents, sleeping bags and provisions. But seriously worth it. After setting up tents we legged it further up the mountain before sunset and caught the "Towers" - two huge, sheer granite rocks behind a mountain lake - at the only time of the day that they were not in cloud. Every direction we looked was beautiful with snowy mountains accompanying them.

We trekked back down the next day via a waterfall, taking on incredibly strong winds which were apparently "mild" that day as the normally reach 200kmph, and yesterday they were "only" 90kmph.

On the East coast now in San Julian about to tuck into some seafood for the first time since we arrived in South America.

Steve x

Bloody hell, we´re only in El Calfate!

Route 40 has proven interesting!

We have seen towns hundreds of miles from the nearest shrub! Its been amazing! On our way here we have come across 7000 year old cave paintings in a caynon in the desert (which is in my top 3 experiances) to getting totally stuck hundreds of kilometers from anywhere in mud slicks in the rainy (ironically) desert. The pushing the car out of the mud has written off my jeans. gutted.

This has been a real avdenture, today we climbed to lagos dos tres near Fitz Roy in El Calafate which was beautiful. Speak to all soon, and apparently the postcards are getting there slowly...

loads of love,

Steve x x

San Carlos de Bariloche - Turning a trip into an Adventure

Hola again, for another assortment of drivel about our travels! We don´t even konw if anyone is reading this anymore but hopefully its worth our while!

We are now in Patagonia and loving the outdoorsy life. Its as if we´ve never been in the countryside! We are mountain biking, trekking, visiting waterfalls and climbing 2000m mountains. We were stood in snow! The views were incredible. We also climbed a hill (rather than got the lift) thats supposed to be one of the top ten views in the world. It was amazing but nothing in comparison to the mountain. I wouls suggest the title "top ten views accissible from a chair lift". Take note National Geographic.

We have also aquired two "Travel Pets" Claire and Charlie from Cornwall. We are all going to take a 2 week drive down to El Calafate right down south to see Perito Moreno Glacier, the worlds last growing glacier! For this time we will be lost to the world, roads dont even belong in this part of town. The blog will fall silent...

Tomorrow, more trekking with our lovely local tour guide Flora who shows us all the best bits of Bariloche.

So until our return, take care

Steve x x

Bariloche... we've arrived!

From the busy, rushed, party life style of BA, to a much more slower pace of life of Bariloche.

We have our own (more-or-less) private lagoon to swim in, mountains to ride bikes on, and treks to trek.

oh... and there's that rotating restaurant we were in on top of a mountain.

(pics soon- as ever!)


That is all.

jonny
x

Chile Earthquake

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A massive earthquake, one of the largest ever recorded, measured 8.8 on the Richter scale. It struck Chile on 27 February 2010.

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