For serious mountaineers, trekkers, and outdoor enthusiasts, you have to visit El Chaltén. Our 4 yr old completed a 3-hour, 6km, mountain hike to Mirador del Torre, making me a super proud mama.
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A glimpse of our travel pace in South America in general, and a zoomed in experience on our second day in El Calafate to see Lago Roca and Lago Argentina.
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We followed our Airbnb host’s recommendation and took on a full day Mayo Spirit Trek boat tour from Southern Spirit. It turned out to be our favorite full day guided excursions in South America.
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My best friend from Argentina suggested we take the epic road trip from San Carlos de Bariloche to San Martin de los Andes as a must-do in Argentina. And we did!
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Bariloche is so far my most anticipated destination of this South America trip, as we are finally touching the lips of Patagonia.
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I haven’t had much alcohol the past few years. It seems I’m catching up all within one week in Mendoza, Argentina.
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Our urban exploration in Santiago, Chile, featuring a mom-son day at KidZania, a great learning place for children.
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A great example of how I photographed landscape during sunset with less than 10 minutes in hand, a common theme I had while traveling with kids.
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We passed the highest point in our travel, at 4900m elevation, on the Colca Canyon trip, saw many alpacas, vicunas, and a few Andean condors, the largest flying bird in the world.
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We took our 9th flight of our South America trip yesterday and landed in Arequipa, the second largest city of Peru. I somewhat fell in love with it more than Cusco and Machu Picchu.
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We spent one day in Sacred Valley today, and ran into a crowd of indigenous dance in Pisac. We spent our last evening in Cusco, with the mission to enjoy another authentic Peruvian meal.
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Find out why we changed route, and wasted 4 plane tickets from Lima to Cusco, and instead, went from Lima to Chile and back to Lima. No regrets! Orion became popular on our first day in Cusco.
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Mars Valley, Valle de la Muerte, also called Death Valley, is a must-see in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. We had to hike in the flying sand for 30 minutes to the valley top to photograph landscape during sunset.
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Can you imagine how it feels when traveling in the driest place on earth and seeing an oasis like this? Words can’t describe it.
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Traveling with young kids often means little or no landscape photography during my favorite sunset hours. I had to come up with different scenarios to photograph landscape. Check out the sunset scene and the milky way I captured at our remote desert hut.
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