Trip reports and travel suggestions during an extended trip in Argentina.
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Argentina Trip A six-week journey through southern South America
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For my final week or so I travelled to Northwest Argentina in the Salta region. Not a lot of time to write, but there is another hitch-hiker story coming.
As my trip into Chile came to an end, I headed over the border back into Argentina and to the north.
My cough was getting worse, so pulled over a small town and found what turned out to be a very nice fishing lodge. The owner was 51 and just retired from Air France. He had [...]
After visiting the volacano in Chile, I made my way south and spent the night in a small, mostly wood, hotel in Hornopiren before taking a nine-hour ferry south.
I didn’t find the people in Hornopiren especially friendly, at first. Hostile stares, no answer when I would say “Hola”,
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So after the good luck with my first hitchhiker, I decided to try it again.
I was in the small town of Conaripe, Chile and wanted to visit some hotsprings. The town had zero information, but the map showed three to the north, so I got into my car and headed north on a rough gravel [...]
I get asked a lot what city I’m from, but most people haven’t been familiar with St. Louis (or “San Luis” as I’ll sometimes say).
I usually add something like “en el centro”, or that it is next to “el rio Mississippi”, which many people know abou
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While on the top of the volcano overlooking Pucon, Chile, I walked to the other side to watch an Australian guy throw rocks into it - you can see one falling in this picture. Not too sure what the desired outcome of this experiment was, but it was interesting that we didn’t hear them hit [...]
The Fanta-Chopp guys needed to get back to work fixing things up for the upcoming tourist season, so I spent a nice hour by the lake waiting for the ferry. The one-and-a-half-hour trip went through a long, blue lake in the midst of a national park and I spent most of it chatting with a Chilean [...]
Border crossings make me nervous and someone in Argentina hold told me the Chileans could be difficult.
It turned out to be fine. There are two stations about 1 kilometer apart - one for Argentina and the other for Chile and you need to stop at each. At the Chile outpost I was the only one [...]
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