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Hike to Mount Fitz Roy

April 5, 2011 by thirdeyemom

One of the most blissful things about trekking is the amazing amount of energy you expand throughout the day. For someone who loves to eat and drink, being able to eat and drink whatever I wanted and not gain a pound was something truly incredible. Sweets, breads, nuts, cheese were on my mind and eaten with pleasure throughout the day while delightful, homemade Argentine treasures were rapidly consumed at night over a bottle of dry, smooth, aged Malbec. Needless to […]

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Categories: Argentina, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: Argentina, CULTURE, Los Glaciares National Park, Patagonia, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, trekking

First Hike into the Wild

April 4, 2011 by thirdeyemom

We woke up early after a wonderful, restful sleep tucked away in our rustic Patagonian “cabin”. It was eerily quiet and still. The morning sun was barely coming through the seams of the heavy woolen curtains. I peered outside the small window. It was gray and looked cold; a dramatic change from sunshine and t-shirts just a day before in Buenos Aires. Yet I did not hear that unforgettable, forceful wind that I remembered only too well from my last […]

Categories: Argentina, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: Argentina, CULTURE, Los Glacaires National Park, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, trekking

The Tiny Outpost in the Middle of Nowhere

April 2, 2011 by thirdeyemom

El Chalten is a different kind of place, an outpost in Patagonia, in the middle of nowhere. It was established in 1985 as a trekking base for mountaineers who wished to summit the nearby, towering and difficult Cerro Torro and Mount Fitzroy. It began slowly with only tents and today, twenty-five years later has a handful of small restaurants, hotels and shops. The local population is about 2,000-3,000 residents depending upon the time of year. Some people stay only during […]

Categories: Argentina, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: Argentina, El Chalten, Los Glaciares National Park, Patagonia, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, trekking

El Chalten: The End of the World

April 2, 2011 by thirdeyemom

The flight down to El Calafate takes about five hours non-stop from Buenos Aires. It is hard to believe that Argentina and Chile stretch for so many miles from north to south (Chile is an extremely long country covering 2,653 miles from north to south while Argentina is slightly shorter at 2,268 miles from north to south). During the flight south you can really capture the amazing distance between the two ends of the country as the landscape and geography […]

Categories: ACTIVE TRAVEL, Argentina, El Chalten, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, Trekking/Hiking • Tags: Argentina, El Calafate, El Chalten, Los Glaciares National Park, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, trekking

A day in Colonia del Sacramento

March 31, 2011 by thirdeyemom

Note: As I mentioned in my last post, my next trip is to Morocco on April 16th. I am doing a volunteer program with Cross-Cultural Solutions (who I worked with in Costa Rica) and will be working at teaching English to Moroccans and African refuges. I look forward to posting what I find! In the meantime, I wanted to write about another wonderful place of the world that I have been fortunate to visit a few times: Patagonia. Below I […]

Categories: Argentina, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, Uruguay • Tags: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Colonia del Sacremento, CULTURE, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, Uruguay

Thirdeyemom

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Category Archives: Argentina

Hike to Mount Fitz Roy

First Hike into the Wild

The Tiny Outpost in the Middle of Nowhere

El Chalten: The End of the World

A day in Colonia del Sacramento

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