Travelogues Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

Above the clouds of Patagonia... Arequipa, 29.12.: 2 bus rides, 2 flights and a total of 24 hours separated us from Punta Arenas, the southernmost city of Chile. A border...

Thursday, 12.03.2020 We leave our lonely, remote spot by the river in drizzling rain and drive around the southwest tip of Lago General Carrera to Puerto Guadal. The lake,...

We set off for El Calafate on Lake Argentina on Tuesday, 11.02. Of the planned 335 km, 65 km are gravel roads. These gravel roads can be imagined as follows. There are ruts from...

Das Gletschermassiv des Perito Moreno Gletschers gehört zu den drittgrössten der Welt. Übertroffen wird er nur noch vom Gletscher im Süd- bzw. Nordpol. Speziell am Gletscher...

Patagonian forests, lakes, glaciers and famous mountain ranges that are known throughout the South American continent. We are in El Chalten for a week over Christmas, in the...

Perito Moreno Glacier

In El Chaltén our hostel was a Cabana, formerly a Simon found a great accommodation. A former park ranger and inventor built two tiny houses on his property - all made of...

Yes, Argentine Patagonia is indeed quite different from the Chilean one! I didn't imagine the difference would be so drastic, but it's actually quite logical, as we are on the...

'Zone of road holes'

The turn-off from Route 40 is hard to miss, a very strange fish serves as a marker. After a few kilometers, we have the first view of the Fitz Roy Massif with its main peaks - a...

We started on February 10th at 7 o'clock in the direction of Argentina. We had to determine the final destination depending on the duration of the formalities at the border...

Hello After our time travel to Buenos Aires, we extensively indulged in various empanadas and strolled through the huge city for three days. We then continued to El Calafate in...

We started towards Rio Gallegos today at half past nine. Ushuaia is located in Argentina and so is Rio Gallegos. Due to the complicated border arrangements, we had to enter...

On Friday morning, 14.02., we set off from El Calafate to Rio Gallegos on the Atlantic coast. We had loaded my BMW into the van the night before. The route to Rio Gallegos was...

On Thursday morning, we were picked up by the Interpol colleagues (the PSC on the Interpol vests stands for Policia Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz is the provincial capital) at 8 am for...

After breakfast, Marco removed the wheel and we went to a tire dealer. They installed the tire on the new rim, but unfortunately, they did it wrong because they didn't pay...

The Perito Moreno Glacier is a highlight of our tour. Although we have seen many glaciers in Antarctica, we are very impressed with this glacier. The numbers speak for...

The sequence of images shows the calving of Perito Moreno. In the first image, I have outlined in red the piece that is breaking off. It is in the middle of the lower third....

Today we made our way to Argentina. The country welcomes us with a dilapidated-looking border post. We continue towards La Esperanza (which translates to 'Hope'), as there is...