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- 23 mar 2018, 17:40
- ⛅ 20 °C
- Altitudine: 143 m
- Hong Kong Central and Western District Sheung Wan 22.282541, 114.14466122°16’57” N 114°8’41” E
Leaving on a jetplane
23 marzo 2018, Hong Kong ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
All packed and finally ready to go. On route to the airport in Hong Kong. First stop Sydney! ✈️👋🏻
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- 24 mar 2018, 12:16
- ⛅ 24 °C
- Altitudine: 33 m
- Australia State of New South Wales City of Sydney Haymarket Bahnhof Town Hall -33.872518, 151.20768633°52’21” S 151°12’28” E
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Sydney stopover
24 marzo 2018, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
After a 3 hour delay last night, I’m finally in Sydney! Morning from the hotel! 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻
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- 25 mar 2018, 10:45
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Altitudine: 8 m
- Australia State of New South Wales City of Sydney The Rocks Museum of Contemporary Art -33.860222, 151.20964233°51’37” S 151°12’35” E
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I can see a rainbow
25 marzo 2018, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Walked down to Circular Quay and managed to catch this amazing rainbow over the Opera House. How lucky! 🌈🌈🌈
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- 25 mar 2018, 09:09
- ☀️ 10 °C
- Altitudine: 524 m
- Chile Santiago -33.462502, -70.66819833°27’45” S 70°40’6” W
Giorno 2
Almost in South America!
25 marzo 2018, Chile ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
Currently sitting on the plane - 12hr flight - on my way to Santiago de Chile. Starting to get excited now, that I’ll be landing in SA very soon! 😲😁👊🏻
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- 26 mar 2018, 13:30
- ⛅ 13 °C
- Altitudine: 15 m
- Chile Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena Punta Arenas -53.160438, -70.91102153°9’38” S 70°54’40” W
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Finally in Patagonia...
26 marzo 2018, Chile ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
After a long day spent mostly sleeping (!) in a hotel near Santiago Aiport, I’ve finally arrived in Punta Arenas - right down south of SA on the Chilean side. It’s windy, cold (6degrees) and the clouds are moody. Went to the Puntas Arenas Museum after a heavy breakfast of toast, scrambled egg and a hot chocolate. Tomorrow is going to be a day of driving from Punta Arenas to the Ecocamp in Torres del Paine. Can’t wait! Have been ‘en route’ for days now! 💺💤🚍Leggi altro
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- 28 mar 2018, 10:10
- Altitudine: 283 m
- Chile Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena Torres del Paine Laguna Amarga Laguna Orozimbo Barbosa -50.997753, -72.79444150°59’52” S 72°47’40” W
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Ecocamp Patagonia
28 marzo 2018, Chile
After a long day’s drive from Punta Arenas, through Puerto Natales, I’ve now arrived at the wifi-free ecocamp in the middle of Torres del Paine national park.

Stayed in an ecodome with no electricity last night - ie. No heating and no lighting! Made good use of my headlamp! The wind was pretty strong, and at one point I thought the whole dome would come off! It was somewhat comforting hearing the rain and not getting wet.

Now sitting in the communal ecodome with a nicely lit fire, listening to the rain pattering down outside and Dido’s ‘Thank You’ song playing in the background. It’s a perfect day so far 😊

... perhaps I won’t say the same if/when I get back from this 6km walk in the pouring rain!! Lucky I have my waterproof pants and jacket with me!Leggi altro
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- 29 mar 2018, 09:29
- Altitudine: 114 m
- Chile Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena Torres del Paine Cerro Castillo Airport -51.259239, -72.34386451°15’33” S 72°20’38” W
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Base of the Torres Trek
29 marzo 2018, Chile
Made it! 24km of trekking up the mountain, through a forest, with huge gusts of winds, snow, slush, boulders, mud, you name it. Luckily we didn’t have any rain. Hands down the most difficult hike I have ever done... 🍂🏔

We started from Ecocamp at 8am amd finished back at the domes at 5:30pm. Not bad timing considering! Thank god for the hiking sticks. The last 1km clambering up rocks was a killer. For me at least! We had a couple with us who were American and another Australian who was called Colin. Our guide was Vartan who set us on a good pace. He was great - nice and new a lot about the flora.

When we finally made it to the top, the view was absolutely worth it. Those towers rise up another 2000m in front of us. It was windy up there but clear with quite a bit of snow.

What a day. Will never forget it 😁🏔👊🏻Leggi altro
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- 30 mar 2018, 15:04
- Altitudine: 200 m
- Chile Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena Torres del Paine -50.988037, -73.26689150°59’17” S 73°16’1” W
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Lago Grey Glacier Boatride
30 marzo 2018, Chile
My last day at the ecocamp was spent with a 1.5hr bus ride to Lago Grey and then a 3 hour boatride to the glaciers. We went past los Cuernos (the horns), which are these magnificent, towering mountains with spiky black towers. They looked a bit like Mordor from LOTR.

We had an extremely windy and wet half hour walk across a black pebbled beach to get to the boat. Thank goodness for the waterproof everythings! The Shanghainese guy who was with us had his trousers all soaked.

Saw a couple of rainbows during the day! 🌈🌈
Sat in front of a Swiss couple and was listening to their conversation with a Chilean older man. I understood quite a bit of it! Hopefully my Spanish is somewhat improving. I’ve learnt that ‘Sipo’ is a purely Chilean way of saying and emphasising ‘yes’ in Spanish. Almanece is sunrise in Spanish.

Anyway, the glaciers were SO blue... it’s something to do with less oxygen being trapped in them, that makes them appear bluer.

Overall, I loved the Ecocamp experience. Everynight we’d have dinner with the group who we’d spent the day with. People were very warm and the ecodomes were cosy.Leggi altro
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- 1 apr 2018, 13:32
- ⛅ 27 °C
- Altitudine: 207 m
- Argentina Santa Cruz Province Perito Moreno Glacier -50.489048, -73.05505450°29’21” S 73°3’18” W
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Perito Moreno
1 aprile 2018, Argentina ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
After a day of travel to the quaint down of El Calafate, I joined a tour to visit the glacier Perito Moreno. You can see the glacier from space! It’s part of the Southern Andes. Apparently a few weeks ago a large part of it broke off (which happens regularly every few months).

It was a bit of a miserable day weatherwise, although no huge gusts of wild wind like in Torres Del Paine. We walked over the glacier for a while, looking at the crevaces and tasting some of the pure water! Not sure just how pure it was give how many people walk across it every day, but it was so blue! The cool thing was we were drinking water that was 400 yrs old in the making!

Luckily this glacier is stable and not receding apparently. Let’s hope it stays that way.Leggi altro
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- 3 apr 2018, 09:15
- ☀️ 19 °C
- Altitudine: 31 m
- Argentina Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires San Telmo Plaza Dorrego -34.620308, -58.37233134°37’13” S 58°22’20” W
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First day in Buenos Aires
3 aprile 2018, Argentina ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Staying in the old square, Plaza Dorrego, in San Telmo area. First impressions of BA - European, almost Parisian. San Telmo has lots of delapidated buildings - but it’s not too shabby.

Had blue sky today, with temperatures around 26 degrees. So, hot, compared to the four layers I was wearing in Patagonia. I miss Patagonia - the views and the lack of people!

BA is bustling. Walked a while to el Teatro Colon and did a walking tour. It was built over 100 years ago, and they recently spent 100mill USD over 7yrs to refurbish it. Unfortunately the actual theatre was in darkness as the crew were in the middle of testing the lighting for a new show!Leggi altro
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