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Heading North up Ruta 3, Argentina

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February 21, 2019 – March 2, 2019

To get off the island of Tierra del Fuego and continue north in Argentina one must first re-enter Chile, then take a ferry to the mainland, and then re-enter Argentina. We drove to a small municipal camp on the Chilean side of Tierra del Fuego on the first day, then took the ferry to the mainland before re-entering Argentina the next day. We were tired of the frequent rain, wind and cold, and hoped to make some longer driving days north in search of warmer temperatures.

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Cueva de los Manos

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February 2, 2019 – February 4, 2019

Our parts arrived and Derek successfully super-heroed them into the camper, having to make some adjustments to get the new, different shaped electronics to fit into the old space. We hooked everything up, and all systems were go! We packed up the camper and got the heck out of Coyhaique! Cue Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again”.

Flamingos and sheep on the border of Chile and Argentina.
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Reserva Nacional de Fauna Andina Eduardo Avaroa

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October 19, 2018 – October 23, 2018

We were pleased to be on our way to a reserve that we had been dreaming about since we first started planning this trip.  We had seen many images of Reserva Nacional de Fauna Andina Eduardo Avaroa (I know, quite the mouthful) and were excited at the prospects of being at this really remote, high altitude area in southern Bolivia.

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Salar de Uyuni

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October 9, 2018 – October 12, 2018

One of Bolivia’s most famous attractions is the expansive salt flats outside of Uyuni.   The Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat, at 10,582 square kilometres (4,086 square miles), and is at an elevation of 3,656 metres (11,995 feet).  It formed when a prehistoric lake went dry, leaving behind a few metres of hard packed, glaring white salt, and a few remnant islands.

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A Love Motel, a Friendly Restaurant, and Parque Nacional Paracas

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August 24, 2018 – August 27, 2018

We were headed back to the coast in order to take the longer, but faster, route toward Cusco.  We stopped for breakfast in the town of Huaraz, which is an important tourism centre for trekkers making their way to the Cordillera Blanca. Much of Huaraz (90%) was wiped out by the devastating Peruvian earthquake of 1970 and many memorials exist in neighbouring communities to catastrophic avalanches and mudflows known as aluviones which roiled down steep mountain valleys from the glaciers in the cordillera above on other occasions over the last 300 years.

A beautiful church we passed before reaching Huaraz.

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