As 2017 was closing its doors, we decided to create one last awesome adventure, to wrap up yet another amazing year!
The cherry on top, over so many exciting and interesting trips and things that happen to me, the past 12 months – it was time for the last epic adventure I was about to take! Rio Turbio is a river, that runs down one of the valleys in Chubut, a southern Argentinian province.
The area was hardly ever really explored by tourists or visitors. Maybe some climber dudes, once in a while, but that’s it. Besides the people that actually live there, nobody hardly ever comes. And that was the part that got us interested the most, of course.
Takes only a couple hour drive, from the town that my family lives, Bariloche. Once we got to the lake, there was a boat, waiting for you that took us over the lake. From then on, we changed the transport and each rode a horse, for the next couple days.
Luckily a friend of my mom has been building a house there for a while now and it’s planning to move in permanently. He hooked us up with some great connections where and how to rent horses and book a boat. Because frankly, horses are your only option of transport, when it comes to that valley. Unless you want to hike for a week straight, through no-road areas and try to break the trails, full of bushes.
The area is beautiful.
Glacier river runs along the tall mountains and true Patagonian jungle. Making it easy for you to get lost in – if you’re not ready. The people living here reminded me of Indonesian families. They don’t have much, yet they’re so happy. Life is simple, they make their own houses, produce their own fresh greens and hunt animals. About 28 families live in the valley and each neighbor is about an hour away from the other. Crazy?! It’s a completely different lifestyle, that many of us wouldn’t even imagine running it. But hey, you never know where life takes you + they are really happy. And aren’t we all looking for that? Happiness?
Couple days here and there. Our original plan was to further up and get some actual climbing done, but the weather messed up things and the river got bigger than we even thought. We ended up going to Cerro Plataforma. Such a cool mountain, with a huge platform on top – hence the name. My friend was actually talking about flying up a Cessna and landing up there! A sweet spot to go, for sure – if you’re visiting 😉
If, by any chance – anyone is interested in doing the trip on their own… shoot me an email, and I’ll pass you their numbers along with some names that you can contact and get a great experience!
This trip was for the books. Yet another that sets a great experience of beautiful Patagonia.
GIVE YOURSELF A FAVOR AND SEE WHY YOU SHOULD TRAVEL TO THE SOUTHERN ARGENTINA
Happy New Years, Alenka
3 Comments
nanc87
Always awesome to hear your stories about Argentina. It feels like you were really connected to the land 🙂
Alenka Mali
Thank you 🙂