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December 09, 2004

Day 63: Last day in Argentina

Tomorrow morning, I am hopping onto a bus for a 14 hour drive to San Pedro de Atacama, so I'm taking it easy today....

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Day 62: Cafayate

I had to get up at six and when I got down to breakfast, it consisted of crackers and cornflakes. Hmmm....

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Day 61: Salta

The bus was very busy, but I managed to sleep in fits and starts. At about 8 in the morning, the countryside around Salta rolled into view, with green hills and huge cloud formations carrying more rain....

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Day 60: Che pilgrimage

The trip to Alta Gracia, where Che spend part of his childhood, turned out to be a bit less straightforward than I expected....

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December 06, 2004

Day 59: Where is everybody?

Well, as lively as Córdoba was on Saturday evening, as dead was it this Sunday morning....

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December 05, 2004

Day 58: All by myself

In the morning, I got up a bit later than planned and had a quick breakfast. I said my goodbyes to Dave, Clive, Jeff and Isabel (again) and Duncan and hopped into a taxi to the Terminal de Omnibus....

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December 04, 2004

Day 57: Final JLA day

I woke up around seven, which was way too early, but managed to sleep until 11. I didn't really feel like going out and go sightseeing, so I went shopping instead....

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December 03, 2004

Day 56: It's all about love

It was hard to get out of bed as it was really comfy, but we were going on the Buenos Aires city tour, which was a bit pants, to be honest....

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Still day 55: Buenos Aires

I read my book for a little in the hotel. Three days in Ushuaia is a little bit too long, even though I really enjoyed it. But it was time to leave the end of the world for something a...

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December 01, 2004

Day 55: More moustaches

Today, Heather and I had arranged to go horseriding, and there were two other people from Hungary, Danny and Lisa (which is not exactly right but close enough)....

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Day 54: Beagle Channel

I didn't get up until eleven, which is the first time on this trip! I walked around town and wrote some more postcards, and I had lunch in Bar de la Ezquina, which has huge sandwiches....

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Day 53: NP Lapataia

Marcelo and Manolo came to pick us up at nine, and we drove to the national park surrounding Ushuaia....

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November 30, 2004

Day 52: It's the end of the world as we know it

At 5.30 in the morning, I am not really human. But I had to get on the bus which was to take us back to El Calafate, to jump on the plane to Ushuaia....

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November 28, 2004

Day 51: Fitzroy

Today was another big walk and we were all worried about the weather, but when we woke up, there was a bright blue sky....

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Day 50: El Chaltén

We had to get up really early to catch the 7.30 bus from El Calafate to El Chaltén, which is a town in the middle of the Fitzroy NP....

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November 26, 2004

Day 49: Perito Moreno Glacier

There were quite a few people not looking their best this morning, and Duncan even missed the bus (he was staying in another hotel) so he had to catch up. He'll never hear the end of that one......

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November 24, 2004

Day 48: El Calafate

We crossed the Chilean-Argentinian border without incident and spent six hours on the bus, driving through a lot of nothingness in Argentinian Patagonia. We did see one stray Nandú, which is like a type of ostrich....

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