Today I bade a fond farewell to valparaiso. In retrospect I really loved the place and it was such a welcome change after all the heat and dust of s…

Another 'nuah' day today. Walked up the hill to visit the Pablo Naruda house in Valparaiso.It's a beautiful place. Set high on the hill overlooking t…

We took an early morning bus to Calama for the flight back to Santiago. The plan was then to bus from Santiago to Valparaiso. Met an interesting Belg…

It was kinda a coincidence that it was sunday and we had absolutely nothing planned for the day. We got up late had our usual Pachamama breakfast and…

The alarm rang at 345 am but we were so not keen on getting up. Shawn hit the snooze button and we carried on in blissful ignorance. To our surprise …

I´d read about the Sala de Tara. It was supposed to be the jewel of the altiplano lakes. A difficult 1 day journey requiring a 4 wheel d…

We had originally planned to go star gazing last night but it was cancelled due to the clouds. Surprising really as san pedro only gets about 30 cl…

San Pedro is an oasis at the head of the great Sala de Atacama. The Sala was was a great lake bed tween 2 mountain ranges the andes on the east and a…

It was an early start to the day. I had my 1st hot shower in awhile at Punta Arenas last night. I can't tell you how good that feels. The l…

The next day we were to take a boat at 12 to our lamb barbeque at an estensia. But before that German offered to take us for a short kayak trip up an…

Today we decided to explore the river at the end of lago azure and see how far up we could go. It started out easily enough, clear skys and a mild c…

Woke up to a much better back the next day. The ferns had obviously really helped.   We discussed with German or more precisely he suggested …

Woke up to another bright sunny day in pantagonia. You'd think from all the sunshine we were getting that it was florida or something. Guess we broug…

It finally rained on our great pantagonian adventure. We woke up to the sound of rain drops tapping against the fly of our tent. With great difficul…

So the next day I took the early bus and reached the western trail head for the torres walk. It was another beautiful sunny day. I looked at the map …

Checked with the refugio it turns out that there is a tour boat that comes up from the hosteleria at the end of the lago that visits the glacier and …

The flight to Punta Arenas was pretty uneventful till the landing which was kinda hairy owing to the crosswinds. The views though were fantastic. Fly…

Shawn arrived from vancouver via housten and as expected hit the streets running. He´d gone up the cristobal but couldn´t find his way down and so …

Finally made it to santiago after 22hr flight from singapore. Must say it must have been one of my longest flights ever with a 3 hr lay over in sydne…