Monthly Archives: Jan 2020

I’ll briefly interrupt my usual string of exciting posts and recaps to deliver a quick public service announcement. If you’ve been following my travels on Instagram then you’ll notice that there’s a few days leg between the destinations I’m writing about and where I actually am (I suspected that might be the case before IContinue reading “A Quick Word About Antarctica”

Today we left Explora armed with trekking poles and the mindset that a full day hike would help keep the holiday kilos at bay. We’d committed ourselves to a full day adventure that would take us along twenty kilometres of the famous W trek to the French Valley. Our backpacks were heavy with wet weatherContinue reading “Day Eleven in Torres del Paine National Park”

We went to breakfast that morning still buzzing with the excitement of seeing a puma the night before. Luckily Franchita the deer had survived but she’d clearly had a sleepless night and dozed in the same spot for the rest of our stay. As we suspected, the puma was nowhere to be seen. This wasContinue reading “Day Ten in Torres del Paine National Park”

We were still in awe of the magic of Patagonia, from the sweeping pampas to the lakes, mountains and wildlife but it was time to pack up camp and move on. The majority of Day Nine was spent in a van crossing the border into Chile but there was never a moment of boredom. Here’sContinue reading “Day Nine in Chilean Patagonia”

We were quickly reacquainting ourselves with the adventure lifestyle but knew we needed to up the ante to really say we’d visited Patagonia. Without any second thoughts we comfortably settled on climbing a glacier, as you do. If we were abandoning the Australian summer then we needed to swing right to the other extreme: aContinue reading “Day Eight in Argentinean Patagonia”

I know I said when we left Buenos Aires that that was the end of civilisation but I don’t think the five star resort at Iguazú Falls could be considered particularly remote or off the grid – for proof look here. So I’ll say it again and with a little more sincerity, today was theContinue reading “Day Seven in Argentinean Patagonia”

Before we crossed the border into Brazil we had always been loyal to Argentina and their perspective of the falls. We’d hiked all three trails there and remained firm in our belief that it was superior as it was home to the only resort with views of Iguazú . We still think it was aContinue reading “Day Six at Iguazú Falls”

In the wee hours of the morning – realistically about 8am – we left civilisation as we knew it in Buenos Aires and flew into Iguazú Falls. We spent three days staring in awe at one of the largest waterfalls in the world, two from the Argentinean side and one from the Brazilian. Our itineraryContinue reading “Days Four & Five at Iguazú Falls”

In the build up to this trip we wondered if we were cutting our time in Buenos Aires short as we had scaled back our days there from four to three. Despite the fact we are away for a whole month we stuck to our adventure travel roots and prioritised our time in Patagonia andContinue reading “Day Three in Buenos Aires”

By Day Two we felt pretty acquainted with the bustling city so we decided to step it up a notch and explore the islands nearby. We’d managed to see most of the major sites the previous day so we jumped in a car with our guide and headed out to the Tigre Islands. Safe toContinue reading “Day Two in Buenos Aires”