Buenos Aires
28 октября 2017 г., Аргентина ⋅ 🌙 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 andЧитать далее
El Chalten
29 октября 2017 г., Аргентина ⋅ ☀️ 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
30 октября 2017 г., Аргентина ⋅ 🌙 21 °C
14km hike to the Laguna. Pretty cloudy so didn't see as much as we wanted to.
Lago Del Pliegue Tumbado
31 октября 2017 г., Аргентина ⋅ ⛅ 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 circlingЧитать далее
Laguna Torre
1 ноября 2017 г., Аргентина ⋅ ⛅ 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
2 ноября 2017 г., Аргентина ⋅ ⛅ 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
3 ноября 2017 г., Чили ⋅ ☀️ 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 sortedЧитать далее
Day 1 Torres del Paine - Las Torres
4 ноября 2017 г., Чили ⋅ ⛅ 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 theЧитать далее
Day 2 Torres del Paine - L.Nordernskjöld
5 ноября 2017 г., Чили ⋅ ⛅ 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 someЧитать далее
Day 3 Torres del Paine - French valley
6 ноября 2017 г., Чили ⋅ 🌧 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 forЧитать далее
Day 4 Torres del Paine - Grey glacier
7 ноября 2017 г., Чили ⋅ 🌙 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 threeЧитать далее
Day 5 Torres del Paine - On the boat
8 ноября 2017 г., Чили ⋅ ☀️ 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!
10 ноября 2017 г., Чили ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Punta Arenas
10 ноября 2017 г., Чили ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
This is as far South as we go on this adventure.
Villarrica
12 ноября 2017 г., Чили ⋅ ☀️ 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
13 ноября 2017 г., Чили ⋅ ⛅ 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 intoЧитать далее
Valparaiso
15 ноября 2017 г., Чили ⋅ ☀️ 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 fromЧитать далее
Vina del mar
16 ноября 2017 г., Чили ⋅ ☀️ 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
17 ноября 2017 г., Чили ⋅ ☀️ 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.
Santiago
18 ноября 2017 г., Чили ⋅ 🌙 20 °C
Sleeping in the airport tonight as check in opens at 4am. We are off to deepest, darkest Peru tomorrow!
Lima
19 ноября 2017 г., Перу ⋅ ☁️ 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)
20 ноября 2017 г., Перу ⋅ ⛅ 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 theЧитать далее
Amazon adventures
21 ноября 2017 г., Перу ⋅ ⛅ 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 timeЧитать далее
Cusco
22 ноября 2017 г., Перу ⋅ ⛅ 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 3400mЧитать далее
Ollantaytambo (In the Sacred Valley)
23 ноября 2017 г., Перу ⋅ ⛅ 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 tooЧитать далее


























































































































