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I spent a few months living and traveling in Patagonia when I was in South America. Although I enjoy getting away once in a while, I'm a city girl at heart, so after a few days it started to look all the same to me-trees, lakes, rocks etc. In retrospect tough, I was extremely fortunate to see the things I saw.

I lived in Bariloche for a bit before I entered Chile and spent a few months traveling from Santiago, Chile to all the way down to Ushuaia, the most southern city in the world(which was surprisingly beautiful).

There were many things that were kind of out of the way from the main "high way," Carretera Austral-now, this is nothing like the developed countries' high ways, imagine narrow dirt roads with no traffic passing by for hours.

Since I had neither the money nor the knowledge of driving a stick shift car down there, I had to resort to hitchhiking which meant waiting for hours in the middle of nowhere. I fantasized about hitchhiking forever so that's why I did it in Argentina and Chile but I'd never do it in the U.S. or even recommend it to others, especially if you are a girl traveling alone. I was fine and fortunate to meet a few very nice local people along the way but it's just risky.

If you want to really see Patagonia, the proper way to do it is by having a private means of transportation because if you were to hop on a bus, it will pass by small gems hidden along the way.