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- Dag 100
- lördag 28 oktober 2017 21:52
- 🌙 18 °C
- Höjd över havet: 51 m
ArgentinaRecoleta34°35’39” S 58°23’44” W
Buenos Aires
28 oktober 2017, 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 andLäs mer
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- Dag 101
- söndag 29 oktober 2017 19:29
- ☀️ 31 °C
- Höjd över havet: 401 m
- ArgentinaEl Chaltén49°19’53” S 72°53’2” W
El Chalten
29 oktober 2017, 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.
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- Dag 102
- måndag 30 oktober 2017 15:38
- 🌙 21 °C
- Höjd över havet: 729 m
- ArgentinaEl Chaltén49°17’57” S 72°55’19” W
Laguna Capri
30 oktober 2017, Argentina ⋅ 🌙 21 °C
14km hike to the Laguna. Pretty cloudy so didn't see as much as we wanted to.
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- Dag 103
- tisdag 31 oktober 2017
- ⛅ 23 °C
- Höjd över havet: 1 434 m
- ArgentinaDepartamento de Lago Argentino49°20’24” S 73°0’37” W
Lago Del Pliegue Tumbado
31 oktober 2017, 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 circlingLäs mer
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- Dag 104
- onsdag 1 november 2017 15:11
- ⛅ 18 °C
- Höjd över havet: 627 m
- ArgentinaDepartamento de Lago Argentino49°19’49” S 72°59’25” W
Laguna Torre
1 november 2017, 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.
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- Dag 105
- torsdag 2 november 2017 13:49
- ⛅ 12 °C
- Höjd över havet: 200 m
- ArgentinaEl Calafate50°20’18” S 72°15’47” W
El Calafte
2 november 2017, 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.
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- Dag 106
- fredag 3 november 2017 23:01
- ☀️ 23 °C
- Höjd över havet: 24 m
ChilePuerto Natales51°43’29” S 72°29’15” W
Puerta Natales
3 november 2017, 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 sortedLäs mer
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- Dag 107
- lördag 4 november 2017 15:19
- ⛅ 7 °C
- Höjd över havet: 852 m
- ChileTorres del Paine50°56’32” S 72°56’57” W
Day 1 Torres del Paine - Las Torres
4 november 2017, 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 theLäs mer
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- Dag 108
- söndag 5 november 2017 18:04
- ⛅ 5 °C
- Höjd över havet: 160 m
- ChileEstancia Pudeto51°1’33” S 73°1’37” W
Day 2 Torres del Paine - L.Nordernskjöld
5 november 2017, 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 someLäs mer
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- Dag 109
- måndag 6 november 2017 11:26
- 🌧 9 °C
- Höjd över havet: 702 m
- ChileTorres del Paine50°59’1” S 73°3’20” W
Day 3 Torres del Paine - French valley
6 november 2017, 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 forLäs mer
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- Dag 110
- tisdag 7 november 2017 14:16
- 🌙 16 °C
- Höjd över havet: 110 m
- ChileTorres del Paine51°1’33” S 73°9’13” W
Day 4 Torres del Paine - Grey glacier
7 november 2017, 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!
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- Dag 111
- onsdag 8 november 2017 11:53
- ☀️ 17 °C
- Höjd över havet: 31 m
- ChileEstancia Pudeto51°5’15” S 73°0’14” W
Day 5 Torres del Paine - On the boat
8 november 2017, 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.
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- Dag 113
- fredag 10 november 2017 16:15
- ☁️ 11 °C
- Höjd över havet: 8 m
- ChileIsla Magdalena52°55’1” S 70°34’8” W
We found the penguins!
10 november 2017, Chile ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
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- Dag 113
- fredag 10 november 2017 20:13
- ⛅ 11 °C
- Höjd över havet: 20 m
- ChileRío de las Minas53°9’37” S 70°53’41” W
Punta Arenas
10 november 2017, Chile ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
This is as far South as we go on this adventure.
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- Dag 115
- söndag 12 november 2017 18:07
- ☀️ 24 °C
- Höjd över havet: 222 m
- ChileVillarrica39°17’2” S 72°13’19” W
Villarrica
12 november 2017, 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.
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- Dag 116
- måndag 13 november 2017 13:04
- ⛅ 21 °C
- Höjd över havet: 2 814 m
- ChileVolcán Villarrica39°25’8” S 71°56’22” W
Volcan Villaricca
13 november 2017, 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 intoLäs mer
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- Dag 118
- onsdag 15 november 2017 10:16
- ☀️ 16 °C
- Höjd över havet: 48 m
- ChileMatiz Grande33°2’52” S 71°37’35” W
Valparaiso
15 november 2017, 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 fromLäs mer
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- Dag 119
- torsdag 16 november 2017 13:10
- ☀️ 23 °C
- Höjd över havet: 16 m
- ChilePlaya Acapulco33°0’47” S 71°33’18” W
Vina del mar
16 november 2017, 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.
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- fredag 17 november 2017 14:19
- ☀️ 21 °C
- Höjd över havet: 110 m
- ChilePunta Cabras32°56’31” S 71°32’54” W
Con con dunes
17 november 2017, 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.
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- lördag 18 november 2017 21:15
- 🌙 20 °C
- Höjd över havet: 494 m
- ChileComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport33°23’50” S 70°47’41” W
Santiago
18 november 2017, Chile ⋅ 🌙 20 °C
Sleeping in the airport tonight as check in opens at 4am. We are off to deepest, darkest Peru tomorrow!
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- Dag 122
- söndag 19 november 2017 08:15
- ☁️ 18 °C
- Höjd över havet: 46 m
PeruCarmen de La Legua12°2’33” S 77°5’57” W
Lima
19 november 2017, 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!
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- måndag 20 november 2017 18:21
- ⛅ 26 °C
- Höjd över havet: 221 m
- PeruHermosa Grande12°48’10” S 69°17’59” W
The Amazon (near Puerto Maldonado)
20 november 2017, 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 theLäs mer
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- Dag 124
- tisdag 21 november 2017 09:19
- ⛅ 28 °C
- Höjd över havet: 213 m
- PeruLaguna Treschimbadas12°47’19” S 69°20’21” W
Amazon adventures
21 november 2017, 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.
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- onsdag 22 november 2017 22:03
- ⛅ 13 °C
- Höjd över havet: 3 374 m
- PeruCusco13°31’30” S 71°58’31” W
Cusco
22 november 2017, 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 3400mLäs mer
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- torsdag 23 november 2017 12:52
- ⛅ 22 °C
- Höjd över havet: 2 851 m
- PeruOllantaytambo13°15’29” S 72°15’56” W
Ollantaytambo (In the Sacred Valley)
23 november 2017, 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 tooLäs mer
