Buenos Aires
October 28, 2017 in Argentina ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
We spent a few days walking around the city's tourist sites. Visited the famous cemetry, took a visit down to the old port of La Boca, wandered through an art museum, checked out the cathedral andRead more
El Chalten
October 29, 2017 in Argentina ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
We arrived in Patagonia! The journey here makes it into the top 5 of turbulent flights. Looking forward to some treks over the next few days. Bit cloudy today but weather promising for trekking.
Laguna Capri
October 30, 2017 in Argentina ⋅ 🌙 21 °C
14km hike to the Laguna. Pretty cloudy so didn't see as much as we wanted to.
Lago Del Pliegue Tumbado
October 31, 2017 in Argentina ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
24km hike in great weather, it was cold but the sun was strong. Perfect views of Fitz Roy and surrounding mountains. Spotted some icebergs in the distance as well as a few big condors circlingRead more
Laguna Torre
November 1, 2017 in Argentina ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
An easier 18km trek to the glacier lake today.
We saw signs of pumas in the sand but no luck in spotting any. Enjoyed a spot of lunch at the lake side and then fished out some small icebergs.
El Calafte
November 2, 2017 in Argentina ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Woke up at 4:30am to catch the bus but the 8:30am connecting bus does not exist. Instead we are hanging about the town for the 4:30pm bus. Phoebe had resorted to sleeping on a park bench.
Puerta Natales
November 3, 2017 in Chile ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Admin and laundry day. It's not always adventure and beautiful scenery! Spent most of the day walking back and forth between travel agents and grocery stores but our next trekking adventure is sortedRead more
Day 1 Torres del Paine - Las Torres
November 4, 2017 in Chile ⋅ ⛅ 7 °C
A new trek started today when we arrived early into Torres del Paine national park. Once we pitched our tent we set off to view "the towers" (we didn't fancy setting off at 2am to watch theRead more
Day 2 Torres del Paine - L.Nordernskjöld
November 5, 2017 in Chile ⋅ ⛅ 5 °C
Today we trekked a long 13km in 6 hours. Our backpacks were heavy (20kgs) but we managed to make it to camp without any injuries. Scenery was magnificent with better views than yesterday. We saw someRead more
Day 3 Torres del Paine - French valley
November 6, 2017 in Chile ⋅ 🌧 9 °C
We walked along the French valley to the Mirador Britannica, a 13km hike (without our back packs thankfully) with a stunning 360 degree view of the mountains.
We then headed to our next campsite forRead more
Day 4 Torres del Paine - Grey glacier
November 7, 2017 in Chile ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
It was an easy 12km hike to the glacier today. There was a wow factor after a couple of hours walking when we first spotted some icebergs. Then the glacier appeared!
We treated ourselves to threeRead more
Day 5 Torres del Paine - On the boat
November 8, 2017 in Chile ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
It was Chile (sic) in the tent last night but thankfully we had no rain. Time for us to take the catamaran and return to civilisation.
We found the penguins!
November 10, 2017 in Chile ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Punta Arenas
November 10, 2017 in Chile ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
This is as far South as we go on this adventure.
Villarrica
November 12, 2017 in Chile ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Relaxing in Chile's lake district. Plenty of volcanoes in this area. Fingers crossed there's no eruptions whilst we are here.
Volcan Villaricca
November 13, 2017 in Chile ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
We woke at 5:30am to climb up Volcan Villaricca (2847m). Phoebe had no idea what lay ahead, neither did I. It took us 5 hours to zip zag or way to the top. Views were amazing, we could see down intoRead more
Valparaiso
November 15, 2017 in Chile ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
This city has a very bohemian feel to it. It's a stark contrast to the south of Chile. We took a stroll through one of the local neighborhoods, famous for its street art graffiti. "Artists" come fromRead more
Vina del mar
November 16, 2017 in Chile ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
A hot day on the beach but the water was freezing! Headed back to the hostel to have some dinner on the terrace.
Con con dunes
November 17, 2017 in Chile ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
A small trip to the sand dunes of Con Con. Then we went back to the beach and watched some sea lions fight with pelicans over the fishermen's leftover scraps.
Barry Clark
People were sandboarding. I used an old satellite dish that was lying around.
Santiago
November 18, 2017 in Chile ⋅ 🌙 20 °C
Sleeping in the airport tonight as check in opens at 4am. We are off to deepest, darkest Peru tomorrow!
Lima
November 19, 2017 in Peru ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
7 hour wait to catch our next flight to take us into the jungle. Make that a 9 hour layover as flight is now delayed!
The Amazon (near Puerto Maldonado)
November 20, 2017 in Peru ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Today we travelled 45 minutes up the Rio Tambopata to the jungle lodge. Our group consists of 5 Australians in their 60s, Trevor from Malta and our guide Uriel. As we are in low season we have theRead more
Amazon adventures
November 21, 2017 in Peru ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
We woke up at 4:30am and headed out to an ox bow lake. We hoped to spot the resident family of giant otters (they grow up to 2m in length) but they were keeping to themselves.
We then spent timeRead more
Cusco
November 22, 2017 in Peru ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
We had our first flight upgrade today. Row 2 in business class, however the flight was only 40 minutes so no drinks or food service.
I'm feeling the affects of altitude today. We are now at 3400mRead more
Ollantaytambo (In the Sacred Valley)
November 23, 2017 in Peru ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
A short road trip from Cusco is the small town of Ollantaytambo. Plenty of tourists here walking around the Inca ruins. We went for a small walk up a hill that overlooks the town, nothing tooRead more
