First post from Mexico, and it turns out that crossing the border isn’t as bad as it’s made out to be. The border crossing between San Diego & Tijuana is one of the busiest in the world. With 25 lanes of car traffic and 15 lanes of pedestrian traffic. But we took a special bridge […]
Animals
California Dreamin’
First up for the worried parents: Pedr’s fine, no problems, he survived the long flight over. (I hope I’m not going to have to put this at the start of every new post!). So we celebrated his surviving by going to a nice restaurant and ordering some healthy food. Around a year ago we jumped […]
Welcome To The Jungle – Part 2
If you haven’t read Part 1 of our trip to the Peruvian Amazon, you can read it here. Day 4 – Exploring Deep In The Jungle Cocha Salvador Because the rivers in the Amazon Rainforest change course regularly, they can leave behind big oxbow lakes like Cocha Salvador. So you get animals that prefer the […]
Welcome To The Jungle – Part 1
Not long after our arrival in Cusco for Inti Raymi (Festival of the Sun) we set off east, down from the Andes and into the lowland jungle of Peru. We were headed for the Manu National Park. A remote part of the Amazon Rainforest which has the highest biodiversity in the world. It’s so remote […]
Hiking the W in Torres del Paine – Part 2
This is the second part of our hike through Torres del Paine in Chilean Patagonia. Part 1 is here. Day 3: Paine Grande Refuge to Grey Glacier – 17km, 5 hours Luckily for us this was a shorter day through some “easier” terrain so we could recover a bit from the previous days. We were […]
