Thursday 8 February 2018

Cerro La Leonera - 4950(ish) meters above sea level

One of the benefits of living in Santiago are the numerous hiking opportunities that present themselves nearby. This is a blog post about a trek to a nearly 5000m peak, which had been on our to-do list for a few years now, and which we managed to "bag" a couple of weekends ago q-:

Saturday 3 February 2018

Bariloche

The last leg of our end-of-the-year-2017 trip took us to Bariloche which is (apparently!) the most visited spot in Patagonia. It is a nice place and with all of the amenities (including decent veggie food options), although we would not consider it "real Patagonia"... at least compared with where we had just travelled from it seems a little too manicured, with nice lawns and nice houses and golf clubs etc.