A lake with two names

For the last three nights, we have been in the border region of Argentina and Chile in Central Patagonia near Lake Buenos Aires/ Lake Carrera. It's one lake where the border runs through the middle north to south.

We stayed in two sleepy but very charming towns on either side of the border, Los Antiguos and Chile Chico. Both have beautiful mountain and lake surroundings.

The only weird thing was crossing the border, which is only allowed on foot, and just for fun, the two border control posts are 4km apart. Hmm, how to manage that on crutches. When there's is no bus, no taxi allowed?

The answer is to ride with a local who comes to Argentina to tank up on cheap petrol, but not officially of course. Get out before the border, cross on foot, and jump in again on the other side. The Argentinien border guard looked incredulous when Flo, with her crutches, claimed she was on foot, but then he shrugged and stamped all the passports.もっと詳しく