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Buenos Aires, Argentina
We flew from El Calafate to Buenos Aires’ domestic airport, Aeroparque Jorge Newbury. We stayed in an apartment in the Palermo Hollywood district (remise/taxi from the airport was $ARS160 and took about 15 minutes) which is filled with cafés and boutique stores. I’m glad we chose Palermo as there was plenty to do in our […]
El Calafate and Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina
We travelled with Turismo Zaahj from Puerto Natales to El Calafate in Argentina ($15,000CP). An hour in to the journey we stopped to get our exit stamps from Chile – this took exactly 8 minutes for everybody in the bus – yay!! Ten minutes later we arrived at Argentinian border control and all the bus […]
El Chaltén, Argentina
🍀🍀🍀 Happy St. Patrick’s Day 🍀🍀🍀 Although we travelled to El Calafate prior to El Chaltén we returned to El Calafate so I’ll tell you about El Chaltén first! We travelled with CalTur for the 3 hour journey from El Calafate to El Chaltén ($550ARS return to El Calafate). The bus stops about 2 minutes […]
Bariloche, Argentina
We caught an 8.45pm bus from Mendoza with Andesmar for ARS$1150 for the 18 hour (yes, 18 hours on a bus) journey to Bariloche or to use its proper name, San Carlos de Bariloche – the gateway to Patagonia. Although the bus journey was long it was probably one of the better ones we’ve had […]
Maipú Wine Region, Argentina
We made the mistake of getting the wrong bus and getting off at the main plaza, Plaza 12 de Febrero, in Maipú proper – that’s 4.5km from all the bike rental places. Fun! What we should have done was hopped on any of the following buses from the centre of Mendoza – 171, 172 or […]
