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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 overpriced coffee and croissants in the bus station cafe and chatted to two other backpackers taking the same route. I had already mentally assigned these two a nickname each …

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

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 and that he would take us to the bus station at that time. You don’t get service like that just anywhere. Our journey was made up of 3 parts (involving changes): • El Calafate to Rio Gallegos…

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

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.)

2007.03.06~2007.05.31

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.

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

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 Argentina we had reached the town of Rio Gallegos. Less than 200 miles south of us was Ushuaia the most Southerly City in the world. Our decision not to descend further south was largely to do with th…

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 next bus out, which happened to be to El Calafate. Our visit to Rio Gallegos lasted 45 minutes.

Doncs resulta que Río Gallegos acostuma a ser un lloc només de pas a la patagonia, però com que no vaig trobar bitllet de bus vaig haver de passar una nit per aquí. La veritat és que no debía ser massa turístic perquè tots els locals em deien a veure que feia per allà. De fet a l'estació d'autobus esperant un colectivo per anar cap al centre de la ciutat vaig amenitzar l'espera a tots els altres que, un per un van preguntarme d'on era, que feia i on anava. Vem estar potser  UNA…