After our big hike through Torres del Paine in Chilean Patagonia we crossed over into Argentinian Patagonia to see how things looked on the other side of the Andes. Our first stop was El Calafate, which was a 8 hour drive from Torres del Paine. The bus didn’t go faster than 60km/h, which made the […]
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The Weird and Wonderful World of the Atacama Desert
After the animal filled Galapagos Islands, and the lush cloud forests of Ecuador we went to a completely different landscape: the high altitude, dry, barren landscape of the Atacama Desert in Chile. The main town (for tourists anyway) is San Pedro and this is actually a green(ish) oasis in the middle of the desert. All the […]
Hummingbirds, The Equator and Quito
Ecuador has a lot of animals, and not just in the Galapagos. After we made it back to Quito we spent a day visiting the Bella Vista Cloud Forest to go see the hummingbirds. Bella Vista Cloud Forest This place used to be farmland, but an English expat bought the land 20 years ago and […]
The Amazing and Incredible Galapagos Islands – Part 2
Since there wasn’t enough space to fit into one post all the photos of what the Galapagos has to offer, here is Part 2 for you. (If you haven’t seen Part 1 you can see it here) Day 5 – Isabela Isabela Island is the biggest island in the Galapagos so we made a few […]
The Amazing and Incredible Galapagos Islands – Part 1
I’m going to stay it straight away. The Galapagos Islands are the most amazing and incredible place we have seen in our lives. We spent 8 days here cruising around the islands on a boat, which meant we got to visit some of the more distant islands. But even in the populated islands, and near […]
