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Horse With No Name

America

PATAGONIA, 2024

My trip starts in Bariloche. I will travel through Argentine Patagonia, ending at the end of the world, Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world.

I will be driving for one month, covering more than 3,000 km across the Patagonian Steppe, passing lakes and admiring some of the most spectacular glaciers I have ever seen, together with the mountains where they are born.
- Memories Of Patagonia
Many others have travelled these same roads over the last century, carrying Patagonia in their memories. Now, I will add mine.

Patagonia doesn't leave anyone indifferent. It has a way of making you feel small, insignificant.
- San Carlos De Bariloche
- A Happy Fox?
- Hiking In Villa Angostura
- Nahuel Huapi Lake Views
- Colonia Suiza, Bariloche
This region makes me feel like I'm back home in the European Alps.

And that's because, a century ago, groups of immigrants, mostly Swiss, settled in this region, bringing their culture and traditions with them.
Colonia Suiza Looks Like A Little Piece Of The Alps In The Heart Of The Andes. The Architecture, The Chocolate!
- 4 Oct 2024
- A Carancho Posing For Me
I'm heading south, and after just a few kilometres, I start to understand that Patagonia is not only about mountains and glaciers.

The landscape starts to turn ochre, much drier than it was just 20 km ago.
- My Journey Really Begins
- Am I Still On Earth?
- The Most Famous Inhabitant
- Some Other Explorers
- The Guanacos!
- What A Road Trip!
Ruta 40 Will Be My Guide For Almost The Whole Trip, And I Have A Feeling This Road Is Going To Be Something Special.
- Gaucho With His Horse
- Buenos Aires Lake
- Always Windy!
- The Endless Steppe
- Rough Life
After hundreds of kilometres along Ruta 40 and through the steppe, I understand the true meaning of desolation.

Driving for hours without barely seeing another car.

The herds of guanacos are the only ones who seem to have made this place their home.
- And This Buddy
- Refueling Means Adventure
- One Last Break!
- Arriving In El Chaltén
After Hundreds Of Kilometres Through The Steppe, I'm Back In The Mountains. And What A Welcome!!!
- 17 Oct 2024
- Monte Fitz Roy
After days away from the mountains, seeing them again feels strangely familiar.

Arriving in El Chaltén, at the foot of Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre, gives me a feeling that is hard to describe.

Over the next few days, I will get closer to the mountains that brought me all the way here.
- Trekking To Fitz Roy
- A Hardworking Woodpecker
- No Words
- It's Been A Long Way.
Tomorrow, One Of The Big Highlights Of The Journey!
- 19 Oct 2024
- So Cold, So Windy! But Finally...
- Sunrise At Fitz Roy !
After several days on the road and camping in the mountains, I start to feel part of the landscape.

And Fitz Roy is, without a doubt, a dream home.

No matter how many times I see Fitz Roy, It still takes my breath away.

A moment to cross another goal off the list.
- Must Be Happiness
I'm sure everyone who has reached this place has felt the same.

And it is thanks to the pioneers that we know these places today.

It must have been an incredible feat to reach these remote places more than a century ago.

And surely, their reward was being the first to see what I am seeing 100 years later.
- Not An Easy Drive!
- Saying Goodbye To This Region
I Continue My Journey Around Lakes Viedma And Argentino, Some Of The Biggest In South America.
- 20 Oct 2024
- On To The Next Destination
- Home Far From Home
- Perito Moreno Glacier
I Haven't Even Had Time To Take In The Last Few Days, And Once Again, I Find Myself Standing In Front Of Something Extraordinary.
- Thousand-year-old Ice
- Massive Icebergs
I have heard so much about the Perito Moreno Glacier that finally seeing it feels almost unreal.

*** I was lucky to see it, because from 2024 onwards, the glacier started losing mass at a worrying rate, after being in relative balance for at least 100 years.

They show how something so gigantic can also be extremely fragile.
Perito Moreno Is More Than 27 Km Long. Its Front Wall Is 50 To 70 M High — It Can Be As Tall As A 20-storey Building.
I'm heading into the final stage of my trip: Tierra del Fuego, a remote region at the very southern tip of South America.

It was home to peoples like the Selk'nam and Yamana, who settled here more than 10,000 years ago despite the remoteness and extreme conditions.

A place so isolated, yet so rich in culture.
Tierra del Fuego is only 1,000 km from Antarctica, making it one of the southernmost regions inhabited by humans on the planet.

At the beginning of spring, colonies of Magellanic penguins migrate to Tierra del Fuego to breed.
- Penguins In Tierra Del Fuego
- Not An Easy Place To Be!
Ushuaia grew around the construction of the famous prison that housed dangerous criminals more than a century ago.

Today, it is a cosmopolitan city, and the southernmost city in the world!!!

Its atmosphere surprises me after all the other places I have visited during my trip through Argentine Patagonia.
- Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse
The Les Eclaireurs lighthouse, “the explorers” in French, welcomes me to Ushuaia, the city at the end of the world. It also marks the end of my trip, after a month and more than 3,000 km through mountains, lakes, glaciers and steppe.

A region that will stay with me long after I leave.
It has taught me how powerful and, at the same time, fragile nature can be.

How humans have spent centuries trying to tame this territory.

And how it is now in our hands to protect it, so future generations can enjoy it as we have, just as those who explored and lived here before us did.
- The End Of My Journey
- Ushuaia, The End Of The World
- Prueba A Ver Mayusculas
A Ver Mayusculas Si Funciona

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