The Desi Nomads

Today, we took a tour to visit the El Calafate Balcony in Calafate Mountain park, going up in a 4×4 and coming down via mountain bikes.  We booked our tour with Calafate Extremo, who had an office in downtown El…

We visited the Perito Merino Glacier from El Calafate, one of the largest glaciers in the world that you can see up close.  The drive from El Calafate was around 1.5 hours, and scenery was amazing all the way. We…

We checked out of our awesome apartment in Bariloche, and took a flight to El Calafate.  Flying into El Calafate, we already got a taste of the interesting landscape. We picked up our rental car and drove to the Altos…

Today was a light day, since we were pretty tired from the long drive to the Seven Lakes Route yesterday.  We planned to stay in Bariloche, while some in our party went zip lining in the nearby Colonia de Suiza.…

Today, we did a long day trip to the Route of the Seven Lakes from Bariloche.  The Seven Lakes drive actually starts from Villa la Angostura, around 1.5 hours from Bariloche, and winds through seven lakes, all the way to San Martin…

The plan for the day was to relax and explore Bariloche, and continue the short circuit drive in Bariloche that we cut short yesterday.  We first headed to downtown Bariloche to the visitor’s center, to ask for suggestions.  The downtown…

We checked out of our Jungle lodge in Iguazu, and headed to the airport to catch our flight out.  There are no direct flights from Iguazu to Bariloche.  Ours went via Buenos Aires, so the journey pretty much takes the…

Today was probably the highlight of our entire trip, a visit to Salto Arrechea (Arrechea falls)!  The day started off with us taking a taxi into the national park again, around 8am.  We were able to get a 50% discount…

Today was our first day to visit to the Argentinian side of Iguazu falls.  The taxi driver we had from the airport was really helpful and friendly the previous day, so we had taken his phone number down, and asked…

We were rebooked on a flight to Iguazu for 3pm today, so we had the morning to see some sights in Buenos Aires.  We decided to visit the Recoleta Cemetery, as recommended by the Rough Guide to Argentina.  While we’re…