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 […]
Glaciers
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 […]
Hiking the W in Torres del Paine – Part 1
Patagonia is the southernmost part of South America and it’s famous for it’s fantastic scenery and hiking. And one of the most famous hikes is the W Trek in Torres del Paine National Park. It’s called the W because when you draw the route on a map it looks like the letter “W”. It takes […]
Fjords Galore in Western Norway
So after our trip to the High Arctic we headed back to mainland Norway, to the town of Tromso. From there we caught a Hurtigruten boat to take us down the coast to Bergen. The Hurtigruten ships started out as mail delivery ships a bit over 100 years ago, sailing up and down the Norwegian […]
Up in the High Arctic
It was a bit of a last minute decision that we decided to go to Norway but when we saw a trip advertised for Svalbard for what seemed like a reasonable price so we jumped on it. Svalbard is a group of islands way up north in the high Arctic, it’s about as far north […]
