ARGENTINA | Monday, 21 Feb 2011 | Views [619]
The closest town to the Fitz Roy range is a village that has a permanent population of around two hundred people. It balloons to several thousand during the summer season because of all the trekkers and climbers that want to see Fitz Roy. The range ... Read more >
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ARGENTINA | Monday, 21 Feb 2011 | Views [520]
One of the few advancing glaciers left in the world, Perito Moreno stretches over 30 kilometers through a valley carved through the stone and cutting through two mountains opening into a wide mouth into a river. It advances around 3 meters a day, which, ... Read more >
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ARGENTINA | Monday, 21 Feb 2011 | Views [618]
Ushuaia is the Southern most city in the world in Southern Patagonia. It's a port town on the Beagle Channel. The setting is beautiful and rugged, surrounded by snowy, glacier peaks and the small islands dotting the Beagle Channel. The area including ... Read more >
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ARGENTINA | Friday, 4 Feb 2011 | Views [813] | Comments [2]
Been awhile since I updated. I've been in mainly small towns without good internet, that and I'm lazy and don't feel like writing in my blog. Ushuaia is the town on the Southern tip of South America. I went on a boat tour in the Beagle Channel and ... Read more >
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ARGENTINA | Wednesday, 19 Jan 2011 | Views [2425] | Comments [2]
I spent three weeks volunteering on a farm on the outskirts of Cordoba in Northern Argentina. I used the WWOOF organization to find the farm. WWOOF is a volunteer organization that helps volunteers who want to work on organic farms find work in different ... Read more >
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