Category: Argentina

Long before arriving in South America, we identified the Iberá Wetlands as one of the top places that we wanted to visit on this trip. After reading various reviews on wildlife sightings, visitor numbers and accessibility, we chose to visit through the Cambyretá Portal and stay at a free campsite inside the National Park. We Read more

Arriving at the national park After the Telteca Forest Natural Reserve we only had a short 2 hour drive to our next destination – Sierra de las Quijadas National Park. This national park protects a combination of dry Chaco and mountain plains and plateau environments that are important not only for the wildlife that lives Read more

Introduction Phil is back on the road! If you’ve read our last blog then you’ll know that our van, Phil, has been having some major work done by a mechanic in Temuco, Chile. Luckily, the work all went smoothly and we were able to resume our road trip on 12th April. From Temuco, our initial Read more

With the exception of Cueva de Las Manos, the well-known archaeological site famous for its wonderful cave art, the majority of Argentina’s Patagonia National Park is surprisingly little visited considering how close it is to the popular Paso Rio Jeinemeni border crossing into Chile. Having said that, our journey to get there along Ruta 40 Read more

El fin del mundo After driving over three thousand miles, and exploring a wonderful selection of wild and beautiful places in eastern Argentina, we finally made it to Ushuaia, the most southerly city in the world, at the start of February 2025! The journey down through Tierra del Fuego was breathtaking. For the most part Read more

Mas pingüinos! We don’t think it is possible to see too many penguins! So, although we had just seen hundreds if not thousands of Magellanic penguins at Punta Tombo, we decided one early morning in late January to head to Pingüinerra Punta Entrada, located just outside of Monte Leon National Park in Argentina. Monte Leon Read more

Our first proper penguin encounter! Established in 1972, Punta Tombo is a protected natural natural area along Argentina’s central coastline, and is home to one of the largest colonies of Magellanic penguins in the world1. We had seen Punta Tombo described online as a ‘penguin city’, with at least 200,000 breeding pairs across the 210 Read more

From one of the least-known nature reserves to one of the most popular! Peninsula Valdés is a UNESCO World Heritage site in the northern part of Patagonia, in the Argentinian province of Chubut. The peninsula is home to a wide variety of marine fauna, including Magellanic penguins, elephant seals, South American sea lions and killer Read more

Established in June 2022, Parque Nacional Islote Lobos is one of Argentina’s newest national parks and was the next stop after Lihué-Calel on our journey through South America. Islote Lobos roughly translates to ‘the sea lion islets’, and along with a large colony of South American sea lions this coastal national park is also home Read more

Guana-go see guanacos? The second national park we visited on our South American adventure was Parque Nacional Lihué-Calel (‘Sierra of Life’ in the Mapuche language) in La Pampa province of Argentina. We had pinpointed this place as somewhere we wanted to visit as, for us, the La Pampa region encapsulates exactly how we imagined much Read more

Laguna Loma Alta is not in any guide books and it is not somewhere that we had heard of before setting off on our travels. However, Laguna Loma Alta is a beautiful fishing lake that we happened upon by chance and we were pleasantly surprised by what we found there! If you read our last Read more