Category: 2023 South America

North of Mendoza are the Provincial Park Ischigualasto and National Park Talampaya. The latter I did not visit because you can only go there with guided tours but the former was quite interesting. Dinosaur Museum Ischigualasto  is an area where the formation of the Andes mountains unearthed soil from the Triassic age. Many Triassic dinosaur skeletons […]

Mendoza was definitely the culinary highlight of my trip so far. It was a highlight in many other ways as well but my stay was very much defined by the food and the people surrounding that. That was of course no accident, I figured that in the most prominent wine growing region in Argentina where […]

My route takes me west again; back to Mendoza. That means that I have to cross the country laterally – through the literal Pampa. The province of La Pampa is right in the middle of the country and is a mostly flat and arid landscape. To change things up I went to the Parque Nacional […]

Camerones Camerones is on the way to Peninsula Valdez. The name translates to “Shrimps”; probably due to its fisher village nature. Some 20km south of the village is a national reserve for the magellan penguin colony. The penguins there are not shy but you need to stick to the metal walkway that has been built […]

My next destination was supposed to be peninsula Valdez after I decided to not go to El Calafate and El Chalten the supposedly best places in all of Argentina. I left them for a future trip where I could come a bit earlier in the year because I already noticed that it gets below freezing […]

About 800km south of Barriloche is the national park Perito Moreno. It is sometimes confused with the small nearby town Perito Moreno but more often it is confused with the glacier called Perito Moreno in the national park Las Glaciares which is the famous glacier that is on every top 10 list of things to […]

In Barriloche I stayed in a nice cozy hostel that had an awesome common room where meeting other travelers was very easy. I met a bunch of people from Argentina and Paraguay who used the Easter holidays for a hiking vacation in Barriloche. One of the people that I met was Luisina (Lu) who spoke […]

Ruta Nacional 40 (“Ruta Cuarenta“) Ruta Cuarenta is the Argentinian equivalent of the American Route 66. Along the way uncountable motorbike groups have left their emblem stickers on the different road signs and you can buy merchandise carrying the markings for this iconic road. And what a road it is. The Ruta 40 winds itself […]

I did not drive south through Chile as originally planned. Someone from my hometown – Penzberg – that a friend from school knows, has a winery in Barreal, Argentina. I checked on the map and it was “only” 750km away. a bit more than a days drive. So I changed plans and went over there […]