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Lake Titicaca, Peru – Floating Islands at 14,000ft
Llama backups aside, the drive to Lake Titicaca was quite nice – the highway driving is significantly less chaotic than city driving and we had the chance to stop and soak in the roadside attractions, including flamingos! Not exactly the fauna I was expecting to see at this elevation, but apparently Andean Flamingos are a Continue reading
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Colca Canyon, Peru – Condors and Coca Tea
We started out our Peru trip with a flight from Mendoza to Arequipa, via Lima. The first day in Peru was quite a blur given all the travel, but we still managed to make an important discovery – Peru has by far the best food we had in all of South America so far. We’ll Continue reading
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Mendoza, Argentina – Wine With a Side of Nature
Travel hiccups aside (I promise I won’t complain about Flybondi again…), getting to Mendoza was quite easy and the rental car pickup got us on the way to our first stop of the trip – La Celia, about 2 hours south of Mendoza. This was a phenomenal first stop and really set the bar high Continue reading
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Cordoba, Argentina – The Jesuit City
This post is relatively short, much like our actual stay in Cordoba – we spent a little over two days here, and quite a few of those hours were spent waiting on our delayed Flybondi flight out (if you think Spirit sucks, come to Argentina). The actual arrival into Cordoba was easy, with only an Continue reading
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Buenos Aires, Argentina – Happy New Year!
The final week of 2024 was spent mostly on the road, as we ultimately planned to enter 2025 in Argentina. As we left Puerto Natales after the trip to Patagonia, we came back to Santiago for a few days to enjoy some Christmas – we did however elect to add one more Chilean activity before Continue reading
Rachel & Radu Retire (ish) 