Arequipa, Peru
After small town Nazca I was looking for big things from Arequipa, and I wasn't let down. Arequipa is the second largest city on Peru and most people use it as a base for checking [...]
Tierra del Fuego. The Land of Fire.
You can't expect the most southerly inhabited town in the world to be easy to get to by road. Leaving Puerto Natales in Chile the journey went a little something like this... 2 buses, one [...]
Torres del Paine – Puerto Natales, Chile
Puerto Natales as a town is a small, relatively out of the way kind of place. There's not a whole lot going on there, and it's not the sort of place you'd visit for the [...]
Knee Deep in Snow – Hiking Frey, Patagonia
"A bit of snow maybe, but you should be fine if you've got some hiking experience", was the information from the guy at Club Andino Bariloche, the local hiking association. A great resource and the place [...]
Oops – an accidental run-in with Punta del Este
Uruguay was never on our Itinerary but I'd heard good things about a resort town called Punta del Este on the southern tip of Uruguay, which was only 6 hours form Buenos Aires. So we decided to take [...]
Overnight bus travel in South America – A Survival Guide
I love travelling by night bus in South America. There's a sentence you won't hear often. But I do, I LOVE IT. Most people will give an array of horrid cramped experiences. And they're telling you the truth, it's a tough experience. But a wonderful one. Why do I love night bus travel in South America?
Childhood Dreams – San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
San Pedro de Atacama Street, Chile Ever since I was a child I’ve been enchanted by Chile. Maybe it was a past life, who knows, but I have always longed to visit the [...]
Bariloche, Argentina
There's one way into Argentina by road from Pucon in Chile. And it consists of a 4 hour bus ride south to a town called Osorno, a 3 hour wait, then a 5 hour bus ride [...]
Copacabana, Bolivia
I took my first bus named Copacabana to Copacabana… how fitting. Little did I know there would be many more buses bearing this name on my South American journey. Copacabana is a small hippy type town on [...]
