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Colors No. 1
Colors No. 2

In Argentina’s northern region of Jujuy there’s another multicolored spot that’s simply must-see: the Quebrada de las Señoritas valley. Here it is on Google Maps, and on Yandex Maps. The whole valley is made up of brightly colored rocks, and it also boasts… expressive cacti. But the main attraction for sure is an impossibly bright red canyon about half a kilometer long:

“Welcome to the Señoritas!” ->

There not much walking to be done here, though the altitude would suit hikes perfectly at just 2500 meters instead of the 4400 meters at the previous Jujuy-colors spot.

The cacti look like they’re… gesturing to the tourists wandering around. Or maybe they’re trying to warn them about something?…

The views: woah!

Here’s the entrance to the “main course” – the canyon:

Oh my gawdy-gorgeous! Mind-blowing! And we certainly didn’t expect something like it here…

The canyon winds this way and that, and with every turn a new scene emerges:

Then, suddenly, we see a ribbon strung across the canyon. What?! Our guide told us there’d been rain and landslides posing a risk to tourists. Or could it be a ruse of the guides – so they don’t have to take groups all the way to the end of the canyon?!…

// I was still reeling (and still am today if reminded!) that they close the Mountain of 14 Colors to visitors at 6pm and don’t let you enjoy the sunset. WHY? It makes no sense! Could it be that they’re just too lazy?!..

On the way back, we heard excited shouts from a nearby tour group. They noticed that one of my travel companions had a telephoto lens on his camera, and started pointing excitedly at the mountains. Their gestures were accompanied by cries of “Viscacha! Viscacha!” So said travel companion zoomed in and…you guessed it: Viscacha! ->

In closing, a few colorful shots from my ever-present travel companion, DZ ->

Hi-res photos from LatAm-2026 are here.

// If anyone missed Jujuy №1 – here it is.

The undisputed highlight of our trip to northern Argentina was the Mountain of 14 Colors, aka the Serranía de Hornocal, in the Quebrada de Humahuaca region – a World Heritage Site. And it (rather – they, but in Spanish the name’s in the singular) really is (are) multicolored! Through some geological miracle, the sedimentary rock here ended up layered in different colors. Then erosion ground some of it down (over millennia) and washed it away, and what we’re left with today is this:

Look closer and it gets even more OMG! ->

And if you grab the binoculars or crank up the zoom on a telephoto lens – it’s all just fantastic! ->

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Our trip to and around South America early this year had taken us to the north of Argentina and the mountains of the Jujuy province – famous for its bright red (and other colors) mountains. And I just love staring at views like this: the distances, the scale, the colors – it all just blows your mind! We checked out several different locations with these colorful mountains, and now I’m wondering which to start off telling you about. Unlike my usual “at the beginning”, today I’ll go for “in ascending order of awesomeness”: from the modest to the monumental!…

First: where? Here. Also here ->

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LatAm-2026 so far:

• Mount Fitz Roy – approached
• Cerro Torre mountain – viewed
• Fitz Roy again – seen properly
• Huemul Glacier – nearly reached )
• Perito Moreno – observed up close

Next up – Jujuy Province and its multicolored mountains, salt flats, and roads that seem to go on forever…

Note: none (0!) of these photos is Photoshopped! This is exactly how it all looks. No, really!…

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Though our first attempt of getting up close to a glacier on our LatAm-2026 tour didn’t go quite to plan, our second sure made up for it. And so – introducing (to most of you, I think, dear readers): the Perito Moreno Glacier! ->

And here it is on Google Maps:

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Hola everyone!

As per (of late), I’m mixing up the geography – and climates – of my blogposts, just so things don’t get samey…

And that means: no Siberian winter-roads today; instead: picturesque Patagonian mountains – albeit featuring something very cold and icy (and massive). Confused? Of course you won’t be – the give-away’s in the title!

So far down in Argentina:

Mount Fitz Roy – approached;
Cerro Torre mountain – viewed;
Fitz Roy again – seen properly;

More walkies and more views of the both mountains – done.

So what was next for us? Next was when things went somewhat awry…

The plan went something like this: a hike to and then upon the Huemul Glacier (“Deer Glacier”) and a look at the lake (“laguna”) of the same name formed by the glacier. Such a lake is actually a common thing: a glacier drags along stones, clay, and all sorts of mountain debris that forms so-called moraines with lakes inside them. I might not have described them perfectly accurately; apologies if so: I’m no real glaciologist…

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From wintry Siberia back to summery Patagonia, and another installment from Los Glaciares National Park (Argentina)…

Already covered:

– First day (trekking toward Mount Fitz Roy)
– Second day (getting to Laguna de los Tres for the best views of Fitz Roy)

Coming up, day three: getting to and checking out mainly Cerro Torre, plus a glimpse of Fitz Roy again…

Cerro Torre is the second top-spot for tourist contemplation in Los Glaciares. The views are stunning: sheer granite pillars, or teeth, or – better – fangs:

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On the first day of our trek around Los Glaciares National Park in Patagonia most of the potentially awesome views were unfortunately hidden by thick clouds. Come the second day, and we were headed toward the Laguna de los Tres mountain lake, which promised wonderful views of Fitz Roy – somewhere up there ->

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Hola amigos!

Welcome, everyone, to the Argentine Patagonian village of El Chaltén – a place fully deserving of your close attention due to the insanely mind-blowing concentration of landscapes all around it. This mountain village is also where all (or almost all) routes heading to the mountains, glaciers, and multicolored lakes begin – into Argentine Patagonia and the national Parque los Glaciares ->

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Hola Folks!

And so this here blog of mine has finally caught up with my late-2025 globetrotting escapades to bring me (almost) up to date – at least firmly into this year and its first touristic adventure. And that adventure, as you already know from the title of this blogpost, took place down in South America. But not Rio, and not Iguazu/Itaipu either – though there was a Brazilian installment…

The touristic adventure was an extended vacation – to fill in the lull early in the year, as per tradition. And “extended vacation” can mean only one thing for my blog: an extended series of posts thereon – coming right up! Today – also as per tradition: intro post, to get the juices flowing…

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