Rio Gallegos Travel Blogs

Rio G (as absolutely no-one calls it) is a grey, grey place, reminiscent of a permanently out of season English seaside town. During the 3 hours I was required to dispatch whilst waiting for a bus connection to Calafate, I slurped and scoffed down o…

Note to self: starting a 17-hour bus journey with a hangover is NOT a good idea. Stopped in Rio Gallegos to catch a bus to Ushuaia. As our bus broke down on the way, we were late so missed the connection. One look at Rio Gallegos and we 'adjusted' our plan to avoid having to stay, and caught the …

Strange that the bus from El Calafate to Bariloche (which is about 1300km due north) has to go 350km south east before going north up the coast. Well, anyway, we had quite an early start. The bus departed at 3am and Alejandro, ever the host, informed us that he would not allow us to get a taxi a…

Here you can join us on our motorcykle tour from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego (south america). We start our journey May 27, 2006 and we will be on the road for about a year! Read our complete story at our homepage: www.tobias-ingeborg.com

Since leaving Heathrow airport and taking our first tentative steps in Mexico City we had travelled tens of thousands of miles by plane, train, coach and on foot. But none of this had truly prepared us for the enormity of the South American continent. After three sixteen-hour plus coach rides in Ar…

2007.03.06~2007.05.31

Hola amigos. as those of you who know me are already aware, brought down by the ennui of life in the UK and the NHS, we quit our miserable jobs and flew away for three months to see the wonders of Chile, Argentina, Bolivia and Peru. here's a few bits of our adventures. (i started this about a month into the trip but I'll try and write about the first few weeks retrospectively.)

Map and some photos of my second trip around South America. Blogs coming soon! Argentina - Uruguay - Paraguay - Bolivia - Chile - Patagonia

Overland trip from Caracas to Ushuaia and up to Lima. Including a jungle trek, Carnaval in Rio, riding with gauchos in Uruguay and trekking the Paine Circuit.

This is an itinerary of our trip around the world and does not include any journal entries.