We did this high altitude trek in Catamarca to get to El Arenal which we used as a base to climb a few mountains. It’d be a nice 6-7 day loop to hike anyway even if you don’t want to…
Pedalling to the Puna – 29/11/10-1/1/11
After Peru we were tired and even skinnier than usual, so it was 10 days after reaching Aplao near Arequipa before we set off up the tedious hill from San Pedro de Atacama to the Paso Jama and Argentina. The…
Laguna Blanca (6,008m) – Provincia de Catamarca, Argentina
This is the second lowest 6,000er in the Andes, and lies just east of the road from Antofagasta de la Sierra to Belen. Like on Nevado Queva, we had little information about the mountain (just a GPS co-ordinate for the…
Nevado Queva (6,155m) – Provincia de Salta, Argentina
We first saw Nevado Queva (or Quevar as the locals all seem to pronounce it) when crossing the Paso Sico from San Antonio de los Cobres to San Pedro de Atacama back in June 2010. From Olacapato it had looked…
La Rioja, Catamarca, Salta Provinces – Argentina and Region II, Chile 18/5/10-17/6/10
We spent a few days in Chilecito trying to fix my drowned camera (didn’t work) and nuke Haz’s giardia with drugs (seems to have worked), before cycling north through the colourful Famatina valley. On emerging from this near Tinogasta we…