Between Christmas and New Years Day, everyone in La Paz was on vacation including, of course, our mechanic. With some of our extra days, we made a trip to Coroico ...
Although we visited La Paz a few months ago during our last trip to Bolivia, I came away with a totally different impression of it this time. We experienced much ...
Our only reason for stopping in Oruro was to purchase a carnaval mask for a souvenir. Since carnaval is coming up soon, there were plenty of shops full of costumes ...
Sucre ended up being my favorite city in Bolivia. Cyrelle and I initially weren't sure if we were going to stop there but both of us were glad we ...
Heading north from Tupiza, we stopped next in Potosí.
Potosí has quite a storied history, most of which centers around its mining industry. Cerro Rico ("rich mountain"), which overlooks the ...
Our first stop in Bolivia was Tupiza. Admittedly, I wasn't expecting too much. Its a hot and dry place and the town seemed to be a pretty average place ...
After Humachuaca we headed to Iruya. The road was only 50km but took forever because it was rocky dirt with lots of switchbacks, but it was all worth it because ...
We received many recommendations for the infamous Quebrada de Humahuaca, so we chose that route for heading towards the border with Bolivia. The most popular tourist town in the quebrada ...
After Salta and San Lorenzo we took a beautiful (and scarily narrow) road – the cornice road #9 – through some mountains covered in jungle to reach La Cienega Resevoir and Dam ...
We drove from Cachi to Salta thinking that we would just stop for a day in Salta. In our notes we had written San Lorenzo (a suburb of Salta), per ...
The area north of Cafayate is amazing, with epically beautiful stone canyons that remind me of the Southwest USA. First we drove up Quebrada de Conchas for about an hour ...
We visited the Ruinas de Quilmas on our drive from Tafi Del Valle to Cafayate. Our friends recommended we stop there as it is an important historical site. The Quilmes ...
Apologies for our terrible blogging habits. We are about a month behind and so I am going to write a few compressed posts so we can catch up.
After Parque ...
Parque Provincial Ischigualasto was recommended to us by a few people and we've been looking forward to it for awhile.
We spent the night before in San Agustin del ...
Heading for Parque Ichigualasto from San Juan, we this town on the map and our guidebook suggested that one should stop there if they were at all near, so we ...
On the first night back in Argentina, we stopped in the pretty and relaxed town of Uspallata, about 100 km west of Mendoza. It's pretty, small and full ...
In Mendoza we were right across the Argentinian/Chilean border from Santiago, and we decided we couldn't pass up an opportunity to visit friends one last time before we ...
We originally planned to spend two weeks at most in Mendoza. Our friends Adrian, Guille, Ceci and Evgeny met us there and we all set up camp in a 3 ...
The road north from Malargue passes through an awesome valle called Valle Grande. As the name might imply, it is something like Argentina's version of our own Grand Canyon ...
Our guidebook described the area around Malargue as a nice place to take in the desert scenery in the southern part of the Mendoza province, so we stayed there for ...
In the hopes of catching the very last of the snow this season, we visited Caviahue for a couple days. High winds and blistering sun signaled the end of the ...
A couple days in a cabaña in lovely Villa Pehuenia...
After Villa Traful we headed to San Martin de los Andes. San Martin is a laid back (though still touristy) town that feels just the right size. We stayed for ...
From El Bolson we headed towards San Martin de los Andes (also recommended by Adrian) and we read in the guidebook that the most beautiful way to get there is ...
I've been excited about going to El Bolson since I first heard about it because the description reminds me of Santa Cruz, CA. Lots of organic this, artisanal that ...
Jordan and I were a little nostalgic about leaving Chile for the last time. It has been a great home for us this past year.
We had worried about crossing ...
We decided to spend our last few days in Chile in Entre Lagos and managed to find a great cabaña right on lake Puyehue. Aside from a failed attempt at ...
We inherited some very helpful maps of Chile from the former owners of our truck. On the pages covering southern Chile there was only one thing circled - a little town ...
I lucked out with a day of near-perfect conditions at Volcan Osorno, a very small ski center on the Fuji-San like Osorno volcano. Just two lifts but there was enough ...
Following advice from some friends, we made a stop in Petrohué, a beautiful tiny town on the shores of Lago Todos los Santos. It is possible to cross into Argentina ...
We ended up spending 8 days in Villarrica, a town in one of our favorite regions of Chile. Unfortunately it was raining most of the time but we were able ...
It took us two days to make it to Reserva Ralco so we stopped along the way and camped on the side of a lake at a private campground. It ...
We had a great time here in the resort and the nearby town of Las Trancas. There are a ton of young people from all over the world who are ...
Siete Tazas is a park we've been wanting to go to for awhile and it was our first stop on the trip. It seems that virtually no one in ...
We're still waiting for the truck to be ready to go. In the meantime here's some time lapse video I shot from Evgeny's balcony in Valparaiso. Thanks ...
We spoke too soon! Yesterday we got a call from Pío, our mechanic here, to tell us that he couldn't figure out how to fix the latest problem with ...
This is our beautiful new travel blog that Jordan has made. For all our nerdy friends, he made a post over here describing some of the features. If you feel ...