Reply #5: If only pictures did it justice...I could spend a year there easily.

[Lucky Luciano]

I criss-crossed from Argentina into Chile 8 times (pain in the ass bringing cars over with all the papers being checked!) Started in Bariloche...crossed to Chile (Pucon)...tried to take a ferry from Puerto Montt to the Carreterra Austral, but got turned back due to volcanic activity...so had to drive back to Argentina by way of Lago Tigua Tigua...got blocked again..bad map info since the road was only passable by foot...no problem..I love to explore (good thing the girlfriend was not with me as she would have gone crazy on me for not planning!)...so went back to Argentina by way of Volcan Osorno and to where I started at Bariloche...then made it to the northern part of the Carreterra Austral and had to turn back around the time I got to the mirror lake pictures below since I had a flight to catch the next day...back to Bariloche again for my flight to El Calafate in the deep south to play with glaciers and jagged mountains like Cerro Torre...then drove on to southern Chile to Torres Del Paine National Park...and drove on to Tierra Del Fuego - took a ferry with the car from Puntas Arenas to Porvenir and crossed a dirt road to get to the Argentinian side of Tierra Del Fuego - this is not the usual way people get to Ushuaia - very very remote and windswept road...then on to Ushuaia and Tierra Del Fuego National Park..sadly no time for Cape Horn or Antarctica...I will be back...