Rio Gallegos Vacations, Rio Gallegos Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

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 ...

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

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...