Chilean fjords, glaciers, waterfalls and shipwrecks
One of the attractions of taking a cruise from Santiago to Buenos Aires via Antarctica, rather than one from Ushuaia to Antarctica and back, was the chance to sail down…
Tag: Patagonia
Santiago to Puerto Chacabuco by sea
The main reason I took my first cruise was to be able to see things you can’t see by land, primarily Antarctica, but also the coast of South America, mainly…
Puerto Chacabuco, Chile
The port for the Aysen region of Chile, Puerto Chacabuco is a small, evocative place, surrounded by sea, lakes, misty forested hills, and snow capped mountains. We anchored in the…
Best of 2016 – Photography – Further afield
I took ~10,000 photos overseas this year on my travels to Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, the Galápagos, Georgia, UK and Australia. Here’s a far smaller subset of some of my favourites. All…
Best of 2016 – Tramping / hiking – further afield
Other than a few day walks around Sydney this was my first real experience of tramping / hiking outside of New Zealand. No overnighters but went for some pretty amazing…
Patagonia, Argentina & Chile v South Island, New Zealand
Two of the most beautiful places on earth, home to snow capped mountains (the Andes and Southern Alps), lakes of every shade of blue, epic and easily accessible glaciers, and some…
Further afield – South America 2015 Highlights
I’ve captured three weeks worth of travel around Argentina, Chile and Ecuador in seven posts, so thought I’d provide a summary of the highlights, and learnings, from visiting Buenos Aires, Argentinian…
Further afield – Tierra del Fuego
rgentThe ‘land of fire’ is literally at the end of the earth, at the bottom of South America, next stop Antarctica. Having said that it is only as far south…
Further afield – Puerto Natales & Punta Arenas, Chile
I was only in Puerto Natales for 45 minutes but rather liked this small touristy town one and a half hours south of Torres del Paine National Park. Lots of…
Further afield – Torres del Paine National Park, Chile
Understandably the most popular national park in Chile, home to the famous three granite peaks of the Paine mountains, numerous glaciers, many beautiful lakes of varying shades of blue, and…
Further afield – Argentinian Patagonia
The heart of Argentinian Patagonia is the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, home to some of the finest walks in the world, and as the name suggests many glaciers. I had…