Our second exotic skiing trip took us again to Southamerica - but this time Chile and Argentina. Why again? Well there were still plenty of skiing resorts to see and still are (even after that trip). This time we decided to go in the high winter season - that in mid to end of July.

So this time, we decided to give Chile a try, before skiing the famous Las Lenas. Therefore we flew directly to Santiago de Chile and directly organized transportation to the nearby skiing resorts: La Parva, El Condor and Sierra Nevado. You can see these resorts from town, and so it took us roughly one to two hours driving from the airport. Very nice, but also very steep road. There are plenty opportunities to stay, from cheap hostels to cabanas and luxurous 5-star hotels. After 5 days we had the more difficult task of getting to Los Andes. But again - with private transportation it is no problem. But allow at least 4 hours driving. Why Los Andes can rightly ask - the is no snow in Los Andes.

Correct, but there is Ski Arpa nearby! Ski Arpa is the perfect resort for freeskiing - no lifts, no tracks, no runs - just Toni and his snowcats. Due to the difficult access way, you may think about a good 4×4 rental car! We were lucky and Toni picked us up for the hotel - so we had some really interessting rides to the resort.

Back to the big resorts - After 3 days it was time to fly to Argentina and to Las Lenas. So we flew Santiago to Buenos Aires, took the bus to the national airport and a flew again to San Rafael. San Rafael is a small town in the Argentinian pampas - no mountains, no snow. So the bus trip took 4 hours to Las Lenas (pretty tiring hours, as the bus was a piece of garbage and was sometimes driving below 20mph! little advice: buy something to dink in advance, but zip only a little every once in a while, because there are no stops!). Las Lenas is a typical ski only resort - little like the French stations like Val Thorens, Avoriaz, or Tignes. You can normally book one week-packages - so we did as well.

So like on the first trip - after a 14 skiing intensive days - we enjoyed Buenos Aires again before flying back. Perfect to acclimatize again for the European summer

Stay tuned for the freeriding tips and details for Las Lenas, Ski Arpa, Valle Nevado!