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Lago Caviahue and Volcan Copahue

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December 1, 2018 – December 2, 2018

Our guide book for Argentina is not very good. It highlights a few regions of Argentina, but is more focused on luxury hotels and expensive restaurants, and gives only a few highlights of things to do, in only a few regions of the country. So we didn’t really have a plan for what we wanted to see and do in between the larger, well known sites in Argentina. We looked at our map and at iOverlander, and decided to head to Lago Caviahue for a night.

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Hot Springs and World Cup Soccer

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June 25, 2018 – June 28, 2018

The drive to Salento (about 267 km) was going to take us 6.75 hours, according to Google Maps. We started the long drive, single lane most of the way, and were sharing the road with many trucks. On top of that, there was a lot of road construction to repair damage done by land slides (it has been a very wet year for most of Colombia). We could see that we were not going to make Salento before dark (we do everything we can to avoid driving at night on this trip, one of our few self imposed rules). iOverlander showed a free spot in a rest area above the town of Perreira and it turned out to be great; clean washrooms, fairly quiet after it got dark and an amazing view.

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Rio Dulce

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Many travellers have heard of Lago Atitlan in Guatemala, but the largest lake in Guatemala is the less visited Lago de Isabel, at the outlet of which lies the small harbour town of Rio Dulce.  The Rio Dulce river then flows about 40 kilometres out to the town of Livingston and the Caribbean Sea.

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Ruta de Rio Sonora and beef ribs by the river

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The lesser known Ruta de Rio Sonora is a tourist route along a road built in the 1970’s to connect colonial towns along the Rio Sonora.  Most of the towns were established in the 1600’s, the earliest we saw was in the late 1500’s, and before the road was built people would travel on the river bed and banks to get from one town to the other.  The area is rich in history, with old mission churches and ranch lands that have been in the works for centuries.  The Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (unfortunate name…Cabeza de Vaca means cow head) followed the Rio Sonora in the 1500’s, as did the Coronado expeditions of 1540.

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