Heading south, well kind of...

Our best friends Mauritz and Manolo

If you search the web about long distance horse riders you will find people that cross entire countries or even continents. Well for us it seemed an overkill to force ourselves into a single direction as well as commit to make a certain distance in two months.

Instead we decided that our general direction would be south, starting from San Carlos de Bariloche (Argentina), but that we would take side trips here and there, just to break the monotony and visit nice places. In El Bolson we 'stopped' for 10 days and took side trips in Cajun Del Azul, and Mallin Ahogado, just because a guy had invited us to his farm. In lago Puelo we went to Chili, well first on horse (the crossing was too difficult so we turned around) and then took a boat. After that we went up the Rio Turbio river just because someone told us the place was nice. From there we were invited by gauchos (farmers) to celebrate the New Year. And so on...

What do I want to say here: Well if you ever decide to take a horse trip like this you might want to be flexible and not force yourself into a very specific departure/destination. Horse riding is all about enjoying yourself and given the pace at which these grass eating machine go, you might as well take it easy!!! Also your horses will most likely become your friends (well they better be, they are your taxi) and sometimes they really need a rest.