Archive for the 'South America 2008' Category

I’ve gone through all our GPS tracks and uploaded maps (where available) and satellite views of the trips we did during our holiday.
Have a look through the blog entries from South America 2008 to see the map info - I’ve uploaded them as images.
If your screen resolution makes the map and satellite images look a bit [...]

Just a quick note to say we just arrived home from our 6 week tour of Patagonia.
We had a fantastic time - really enjoyed our trip and are glad we did it.
We would love to go back and explore some of the areas of Patagonia we didn’t get to spend more time in at some [...]

I’ve now uploaded photos from the rest of our trip:

Day 21 - Puerto Natales
Day 22 - Puerto Natales and Torres del Paine
Day 23 - Puerto Natales and Parque Nacional Bernado O’Higgins
Day 24 - Puerto Natales to El Calafate
Day 25 - El Calafate
Day 26 - El Calafate and Glacier Perito Moreno Ice [...]

Up at a reasonable time this morning to finish our packing and discard the last of the gear we wouldn’t need for the return trip.
Decided to wear our Teva’s on the plane rather than our boots - also pulled out our Thermarest pillows to carry on, so there’s plenty of room to pack the boots [...]

Up reasonably early this morning to finish our packing and check out of the hostel and book a taxi to the airport.
Our flight to Buenos Airesleft a bit later than the 12:05pm scheduled time. At least it was a direct flight - about 3.5 hours.
Our transfer driverwas waiting for us when we arrived and we [...]