Trekking los Glaciares: laguna Torre
After a beautiful first day, I woke up to a much better day than expected. The sky wasn’t completely covered in thick grey clouds and my tent wasn’t wet. How unexpected. Some people head up the steep trail to laguna de los tres in the dark in order to catch…
Trekking Los Glaciares National Park: Fitzroy
The weather forecast looked horrendous when I booked my campsites. But if there’s one thing I learned, it’s that the mountains are unpredictable and in many places the forecast has been wrong. So I was pleased to wake up to a seemingly perfect day. Sure, there were some clouds, a…
The growling glacier: Perito Moreno
It’s expensive. 45.000 pesos for a day in the national park, which is about 45 euro. I decided to buy a one year national park pass for 200 euro instead, hoping to visit many more of Argentina’s parks. On top of that I shared in rental costs for a car.…
The land of fire
At the end of the world, as they call it, you can find the national park Tierra del Fuego, land of fire. I’m not sure where the name comes from, but there are signs everywhere saying you can’t make a fire. Fire has devastated much of Patagonia’s national parks and…
Veni, vidi, Vinciguerra
One evening I’m sipping tea and see a familiar face arrive at the hostel. Judith had made it to Ushuaia and I told her about my plan to hike to the Vinciguerra glacier. The next day we hopped into an Uber to the trail head together. Our enthusiastic taxi driver…
Defeating self doubt in laguna del Caminante
After lots of doubts I now stood at the start of the walk to laguna del Caminante. The trail head was only 5 km away from my hostel and I would walk all the way around the side of Ushuaia through the mountains, with an overnight stay at the lagoon.…
The first days in Argentina
I arrived in Ushuaia, my first destination in Argentina, after an 11 hour bus ride on Christmas day. Unfortunately I wasn’t feeling great, so I spent my first 2 days keeping it easy. But on day 3 the weather was nice and I got tired of just staring towards the…
W-trek: glacier Grey
It had rained a loooot overnight and it kept going in the morning. I thought it was dry, went to brush my teeth, only to find out it was raining again when I left the toilet building. Waiting didn’t make sense. I had to pack up camp in the rain.…
W trek: day of the miradors
At 6am I was awake and feeling good. I’d gone to sleep early and felt great, so I decided to pack up and take my backpack down to the lower part of the campground. I brushed my teeth, added water to my mix of milk powder and oats and, after…
W-trek: a surprising day in the valley
It’s popular for people to hike up to the Torres viewpoint to see the sunrise. In December this means you have to start walking around 3am. This didn’t seem appealing to me. I hadn’t had the best view though and as I was talking to people, I started to think…