Te pego el comentario que puse en otro hilo, que está bastante completa la respuesta.
Its a public recruitment process that take place every year to work on the argentinian antartic bases. There are twelve of them, seven are permanent that work year-round, and five that stays open only during summer (december / march). I was selected to work on one of the permanents, base San Martin, the second southernmost (Belgrano II is the southernmost). I'm an Electronic Engineer (in Argentina there are electric and electronic engineering), but being a technician is enough to get the job.
I don't do research, I operate equipment and do maintenance. I have a coworker who is a technician, but is about to start writing his thesis to get the communication engineer degree. The rest of the base is staffed by military personnel with a wide range of expertise . We are 25 total. We get here by an icebreaker boat, the RHAI Rompehielos Almirante Irizar. on April. The boat left and we will have no other people coming here until about november-december (we cannot leave either).
While we don't do research , we did have several training courses on the research topics of which the equipment here is working. We measure ionosphere, magnetosphere, space noise, tectonic plate movements (by gps glonass galileo etc), sismogrpah, do glacier mesurements, and also birds and plants census.
I did see penguin, whales, seals and sea lions.
How much is the pay if your comfortable in asking that question. I just wonder how much they pay a technician in the most harsh enviorment in the world.
We get paid a bonus, "suplemento por zona desfavorable", it is around usd 700. About the salary, it depends. As I am a state worker, (I work at CONICET, the biggest argentinian science institution) I get an annual licence to go to work to the IAA ( instituto antartico argentino). I keep my current job and my salary. If thats not the case, you get an annual contract to work for IAA. They pay around usd 500.
Historically you would get paid quite well. The usual frase you got to hear 10 years ago was " con la invernada me hice la casa" , meaning the year working here was enough to build your house. Thats not the case anymore.
I guess it'd have to be the middle of the Chihuahuan desert. We were driving from Guadalajara to Monterrey, and we took the... scenic route. That was one of the longest, flattest, straightest roads I've ever been on. Nothing but yuccas and the occasional car every once in a while.
Second would be in the Jalisco part of the Sierra Madre Occidental. We were in a small town that, if you were to trace a straight line to the nearest town, was actually less than 100 km away, but the roads were so fucked and curvy, it took hours to get there. God knows why my parents decided my first communion would be there.
A primeira vez que fui a Argentina foi com uma Tenere 250... Entrei por Concórdia e faltou motor pra aquela pista...Tudo plano e reto. kkk
Mas se um dia for a Ushuaia esteja preparado, por que a Ruta 3 além de interminável é maçante... mas no verão só começa a ficar frio a partir de Comodoro Rivadavia.
Tambem é muito cansativa a Ruta 16 no Chaco, são quase 800km de retas e cidades bem precárias.
Nós entramos por Foz do Iguaçu com um Corolla que deu conta do recado. Paramos para almoçar em Concórdia antes de chegar a Buenos Aires.
Acho que o maior medo seria a infraestrutura de postos de combustíveis nessas regiões mais remotas. Reta é maçante mesmo, tem que ter uma música animada ou alguma companhia porque o risco de distrair ou cair no sono é grande
o problema de posto é pra quem vai de moto. gostaria de ter feito com a Tenere, mas em 15 dias é pouco. fomos para o sul pela 40 desde Bariloche e voltamos pela 3. te contar que pela primeira vez na vida dormi ao volante, foi como um apagão de 1 segundo, espero que minha esposa não tenha notado. estavamos muito cansados por que a balsa interditou por causa dos ventos e só conseguimos chegar em rio gallegos as 2h da madrugada. então tambem recomendo ir pra lá com tempo, mesmo se for de carro. agora vou te falar o valor que gastamos: menos de 6000 reais. raras vezes comemos mal (por que estavamos passando por regiões remotas), dormimos bem, geralmente em quartos compartilhados. se precisar de contatos de pousadas é só me chamar ou nos buscar no instagram tatierafanaestrada
Nah near Medellin there are many towns and communities surrounded by nature without internet access. Nothing has been more remote than that 🤣 although Costa rica is a close choice too. (My uncle lives there and I visited him 2 years ago)
Puerto Nariño, Amazonas, Colombia. It's at the heart of the rainforest, near the Amazonian border with Peru and Brazil, and is only accessible by river.
I have a few options:
A nature reserve in Lake Yavari in the Amazon. Its not that remote since its like 1 hour from Puerto Nariño, but there are almost no modern world commodities, it has no Internet, electricity is just solar panels and just the employees live there.
Also Bastimentos in Bocas del Toro, Panamá.
And a Biological Reserve in Tortuguero, Costa Rica.
Went to Iquitos,Peru from there took a boat to the amazon.. saw pink dolphins, sailed on that till we were in Brazil and then trekked to a village deep in the jungle.
once took a boat from belem to macapa. and another time from manaus to santarém. i’m pretty sure somewhere during these trips was the one of the most isolated places i’ve ever been.
I once traveled from the Andes to the Atlantic coast through southern Patagonia, across the desert. It did feel very remote, it was hundreds of km in a dirt road with very few signs of civilization besides the road itself. We had a mechanical issue in the car and my dad fixed it with glue.
A small town called encino in the andes region of Colombia south of Bucaramanga where my dads from, was not much but some small favela style homes, maybe two markets and no cars but the view, animals and people alone made me wants to stay
Nearby the Putumayo river in the Colombian southwest, when I did my mandatory military service. Jungle is hell
Y’all have mandatory military service?
Compa cuente ese chisme que está como bueno
Im in Antartica right now. And I stayed a couple months in Mexico, being from Argentina that is pretty far.
Whaaaa, tell more about it! You're literally commenting from Antarctica!
Te pego el comentario que puse en otro hilo, que está bastante completa la respuesta. Its a public recruitment process that take place every year to work on the argentinian antartic bases. There are twelve of them, seven are permanent that work year-round, and five that stays open only during summer (december / march). I was selected to work on one of the permanents, base San Martin, the second southernmost (Belgrano II is the southernmost). I'm an Electronic Engineer (in Argentina there are electric and electronic engineering), but being a technician is enough to get the job. I don't do research, I operate equipment and do maintenance. I have a coworker who is a technician, but is about to start writing his thesis to get the communication engineer degree. The rest of the base is staffed by military personnel with a wide range of expertise . We are 25 total. We get here by an icebreaker boat, the RHAI Rompehielos Almirante Irizar. on April. The boat left and we will have no other people coming here until about november-december (we cannot leave either). While we don't do research , we did have several training courses on the research topics of which the equipment here is working. We measure ionosphere, magnetosphere, space noise, tectonic plate movements (by gps glonass galileo etc), sismogrpah, do glacier mesurements, and also birds and plants census. I did see penguin, whales, seals and sea lions.
How much is the pay if your comfortable in asking that question. I just wonder how much they pay a technician in the most harsh enviorment in the world.
We get paid a bonus, "suplemento por zona desfavorable", it is around usd 700. About the salary, it depends. As I am a state worker, (I work at CONICET, the biggest argentinian science institution) I get an annual licence to go to work to the IAA ( instituto antartico argentino). I keep my current job and my salary. If thats not the case, you get an annual contract to work for IAA. They pay around usd 500. Historically you would get paid quite well. The usual frase you got to hear 10 years ago was " con la invernada me hice la casa" , meaning the year working here was enough to build your house. Thats not the case anymore.
Que hace ahí culiau, que buena onda
Vine a laburar y ver auroras, pero cuando hubo esa tormenta solar enorme el mes pasado, estuvo nublado y nevando aca. La puta madre
Are you from the military?
We are 25 total, 2 civilians and 23 from the armed forces, armada, ejercito y fuerza aerea. I am one ofthe civilians
un amigo mio ex militar de comunicaciones va todos los años a revisar/reparar los equipos de radio/antenas, etc (Edgardo)
No lo conozco, quizas va a otras bases, aca en la dotacion hay dos encargados de las comunicaciones y arreglan ellos las antenas.
A qué sabe el pingüino?
Son demasiado lindos como para que a alguien se le ocurra hacerles daño.
Porvenir, Tierra del Fuego, Chile 🇨🇱 Not sure if it’s Latin America because it’s in Polynesia but it belongs to Chile, so Easter Island 🗿
Tierra del Fuego is probably my most remote too. I also went to the Cuyabeno Reserve in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
I guess it'd have to be the middle of the Chihuahuan desert. We were driving from Guadalajara to Monterrey, and we took the... scenic route. That was one of the longest, flattest, straightest roads I've ever been on. Nothing but yuccas and the occasional car every once in a while. Second would be in the Jalisco part of the Sierra Madre Occidental. We were in a small town that, if you were to trace a straight line to the nearest town, was actually less than 100 km away, but the roads were so fucked and curvy, it took hours to get there. God knows why my parents decided my first communion would be there.
Ushuaia, en un Fiat Uno. El viaje total fue de 10.000 km recorridos.
That’s amazing! I made the trip from Rio to Buenos Aires and the roads seemed endless. Would like to go all the way down one day, though
A primeira vez que fui a Argentina foi com uma Tenere 250... Entrei por Concórdia e faltou motor pra aquela pista...Tudo plano e reto. kkk Mas se um dia for a Ushuaia esteja preparado, por que a Ruta 3 além de interminável é maçante... mas no verão só começa a ficar frio a partir de Comodoro Rivadavia. Tambem é muito cansativa a Ruta 16 no Chaco, são quase 800km de retas e cidades bem precárias.
Nós entramos por Foz do Iguaçu com um Corolla que deu conta do recado. Paramos para almoçar em Concórdia antes de chegar a Buenos Aires. Acho que o maior medo seria a infraestrutura de postos de combustíveis nessas regiões mais remotas. Reta é maçante mesmo, tem que ter uma música animada ou alguma companhia porque o risco de distrair ou cair no sono é grande
o problema de posto é pra quem vai de moto. gostaria de ter feito com a Tenere, mas em 15 dias é pouco. fomos para o sul pela 40 desde Bariloche e voltamos pela 3. te contar que pela primeira vez na vida dormi ao volante, foi como um apagão de 1 segundo, espero que minha esposa não tenha notado. estavamos muito cansados por que a balsa interditou por causa dos ventos e só conseguimos chegar em rio gallegos as 2h da madrugada. então tambem recomendo ir pra lá com tempo, mesmo se for de carro. agora vou te falar o valor que gastamos: menos de 6000 reais. raras vezes comemos mal (por que estavamos passando por regiões remotas), dormimos bem, geralmente em quartos compartilhados. se precisar de contatos de pousadas é só me chamar ou nos buscar no instagram tatierafanaestrada
Nah near Medellin there are many towns and communities surrounded by nature without internet access. Nothing has been more remote than that 🤣 although Costa rica is a close choice too. (My uncle lives there and I visited him 2 years ago)
Cabo Corrientes, Chocó, Colombia.
Easter Island, considered the most remote and isolated inhabited island in the world :-0
A jungle reserve near Iquitos. No internet connection there
Puerto Nariño, Amazonas, Colombia. It's at the heart of the rainforest, near the Amazonian border with Peru and Brazil, and is only accessible by river.
This was also going to be my answer!
There are direct flights to Leticia, to be fair. Is there much wildlife there still?
Border with Bolivia
Galapagos or Tierra del Fuego.
My hometown
I have a few options: A nature reserve in Lake Yavari in the Amazon. Its not that remote since its like 1 hour from Puerto Nariño, but there are almost no modern world commodities, it has no Internet, electricity is just solar panels and just the employees live there. Also Bastimentos in Bocas del Toro, Panamá. And a Biological Reserve in Tortuguero, Costa Rica.
Went to Iquitos,Peru from there took a boat to the amazon.. saw pink dolphins, sailed on that till we were in Brazil and then trekked to a village deep in the jungle.
Puerto Gallegos, Argentina and Taim, Brazil.
Taim, Rio Grande do Sul?
Yes
I've been there twice, in 2018 and 2023. It's 700km from my house.
Middle of nowhere Nicaragua
[Probably Porto Velho, in the Amazon](https://maps.app.goo.gl/x4XTHUi6YZKeWzgb6)
Cabo de la Vela, La Guajira
La Guajira feels like another planet
Also my answer. Or perhaps some place in the Bolivian desert.
Parelheiros
Far corner of the region: Ushuaia. Far from most civilization: Cerros de Mavecure near Inírida.
Easter Island, Galápagos and Tierra del Fuego
Usuahia Also Rio Gallegos, it was a three day road trip
Isla de Pascua.
Went to Encarnacion Paraguay for like half a day also Chaco Argentina both pretty remote for me as a Canadian
morro de sau paulo, but close to the 4ta praia, not remote but there were no tourist there. all brazilians and me + 10 friends.
once took a boat from belem to macapa. and another time from manaus to santarém. i’m pretty sure somewhere during these trips was the one of the most isolated places i’ve ever been.
Farmland a couple hours boat ride from Brus Laguna in the Mosquitia, Honduras
Chihuahua Sierra
Probably Salar de Uyuni…or my own country
I once traveled from the Andes to the Atlantic coast through southern Patagonia, across the desert. It did feel very remote, it was hundreds of km in a dirt road with very few signs of civilization besides the road itself. We had a mechanical issue in the car and my dad fixed it with glue.
A small town called encino in the andes region of Colombia south of Bucaramanga where my dads from, was not much but some small favela style homes, maybe two markets and no cars but the view, animals and people alone made me wants to stay
Nazca lines in Peru.
Bariloches Argentina.
a gyspy village in patagonia. yes it exists