here we come Monster mountain...
Well we have been jetting all over the place since we last wrote, and now find ourselves back in Argentina. We just can´t get enough of this country.
We spent a couple of days in Valdivia Chile, watching the sea lions catch fish heads from the generous fisherman. We then headed to Santiago. I unfortunately got the flu on the bus (ya, not pretty) and spent most of my time sleeping. We then had to cross back in to Argentina to Mendoza to pick up our things and stay at Finca Maria, our favorite little vineyard bed and breakfast. Thanks so much Julian for another wonderful stay. We rented bikes and toured the surrounding vineyards ... it was a bit of a tipsy pedal back to our place. From here we decided to stay in Argentina and do some hiking to see the highest point in Western Hemisphere, Aconcagua (6960m).
The pictures on our post are all from the Aconcagua hike. As it was off season, there was only one other woman out hiking and we had the whole Coflunencia base camp to ourselves (as you can see from the picture with our little tent in the back ground). I felt like we were in an abandoned mining camp, but James suggested it was more like the moon. Although the nights and mornings were a bit chilly and the viewpoint (almost 4000m) was extremely windy, we had beautiful sunny weather and a really great time. I was really excited about seeing a glacier (in the picture with the little peaks with dirt on top) but we both decided that 4000 meters is enough for us and we won´t be attempting the summit any time soon.
We are now working our way towards Bolivia through Argentina and hope to be in Bolivia by next weekend.
M & J
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Make sure you spend a few days in the Atacama desert in Chile before heading to Bolivia. For sure watch the sunset on the dunes and float in the salt water lagoons. It was one of our favorite places in S. America.
We also highly recommend taking a tour through the Salar de Uyuni to get to Bolivia. Make sure you have sleeping bags if you do because Bolivia is high, dry and cold (but very beautiful). The Salar is surreal.
The mine in Potosi and Sucre were worth a stop in Bolivia.
go check our blog out it should have all the info. April 4 -9, 2008. www.cundalltrip.blogspot.com
Mike C
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