Category: South America

The mountain backdrop provided the settlement of Quilmes better defenses.

Quilmes: a Prominent Name in Argentinean History

Quilmes, a name in everybody’s mouth in Argentina, but who knows it’s connected to the history of a tribe which resisted the Inca and Spanish occupation?

RN40: one of the typical narrow stretches of road

3 impressive scenic routes around Salta in Argentina

Salta in North-West Argentina is a popular destination. We recommend driving these 3 scenic routes to explore the region and its impressive landscapes.

Up & Down Thru Breathtaking Mountains – Literally!

Driving Paso de Jama from Chile to Argentina: our second time, but this trip we took more time to enjoy and photograph the breathtaking mountain scenery.

Beautiful evening light above the Salar de Atacama, bringing out all the colours

The Most Popular Destination in North Chile

Chile’s North is a popular tourist destination – so much to see around San Pedro de Atacama: Chile’s largest Salar and old adobe towns in stunning scenery.

Heavy trailers pushed together and buried in mud in Chañaral

7 years of rain in 12 hours – this is the result

Travelling overland we sometimes come close to disaster: the north of Chile was hit by 7 years of rain in 12 hours – we witnessed the result in Atacama.

We’re stuck, but there’s no better place to be!

We were stuck, due to floods, around La Serena and Valle de Elqui in Northern Chile. Yet it’s such a beautiful region with friendly people – we loved it!

round and round, up and down towards Pedegua

It’s all round & round, up & down. Why go that way?

Back to Chile, finish with Santiago, then on to new adventures. We found mountains and dry riverbeds and evidence everywhere of Chile’s long drought.

Embalse Potrerillos: lovely reflections, as seen from our camping site

7 Good Reasons to Stop Between Mendoza and Chile

Uspallata was our last stop in Argentina and it didn’t disappoint. A lake – Embalse Potrerillos, and mountains – 7 colored mountains and Aconagua and more.

multicoloured cliff along Rio Grande, downstream from La Pasarela

Some of the Most Vibrant Mountain Scenery in Argentina

Mountains in vibrant colours, rivers narrow and deep or wide and shallow. In this part of Argentina the scenery continually changes, as we enter Mendoza.

Majestic Araucaria Trees & Magnificent Rivers

Still in Argentina – magnificent rivers (Aluminé & Agrio), beautiful lakes, awesome cloud formations and the majestic Araucaria (Monkey Puzzle) trees.

Returning to Argentina: Lakes District

Part 1 of our return to Argentina. We were impressed by the scenery of the lakes district and Rio Alumine, and the friendliness of the Argentinean people.

Historic Car Meet in Futrono/Chile

On our tour around Lago Ranco in Chile we happened to come onto a historic car meeting in Futrono. A reason to stop and shoot a few photos for this gallery.

On The Road Again

Living and working in Santiago was great but being on the road is better. Here I compare and contrast 10 months in the city with 2 months ‘on the road’.

plastic wrapped hay bales, with volcan Osorno in the back

You get what you ask for

Having seen hay baling as a kid, I wanted to see how the modern plastic-packed bales were made. By complete chance, I had a front row seat!

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Meet Yasha and Juergen. Our travel blog is atypical because we travel differently, not flying from one dream destination to the next. Our choice instead: to take it slowly, take side roads, discover places aside from the typical "bucket list" and guidebook highlights. We drive and live in our self-built overland camper, called [~~"Berta"~~] "Bertita" (little Berta since 2018 in Europe). You can read more on our "About Us" page.

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