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Most people may have heard of this road, which starts in La Paz, Bolivia, descending 3.450 meters down into the Yungas, within only 64km. It is an unpaved gravel road that was wedged out of the mountain in the 1930s by Paraguayan prisoners of war.
Nobody knows how many of them died during the construction, but [...]

Day 3
Today we’re climbing the French Valley; the ascent is pretty strong so it helps having left the backpacks at the camp. It’s a narrow and elongated valley surrounded by steep bicolour mountains (limestone white and basaltic black). A glacier watches us on our left during the entire ascent and from time to time we [...]

Although we had crossed briefly through Chile when going to Ushuaia through Tierra del Fuego, it wasn’t until our bus to Punta Arenas arrived to its destiny that we finally felt we were in a different country.
Chile. My long imagined and desired Chile.
And although it wasn’t here where my grandma was born, the fact of [...]

Well, it seems that our laptop does not like to travel as much as we do. It has just stopped working , without notice. Luckily, this time we had backed up most of the information. We are now in Humahuaca, North of Argentina, about to enter to Bolivia without much internet around, so do not expect to hear [...]

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Puerto Madryn is the nearest city to the natural reserve Península Valdés. We arrived here around the 9th of February and stayed for 3 days.
La Península Valdés is one of the most famous national parks in South America, being the main attraction the endangered Southern Right Whale, which, in spring (from July [...]