High Water
As it takes only 10 mins for the people boats to cross, we have a 20-minute wait before our bus arrives to drive the very scenic last hour to Copacabana. […]
As it takes only 10 mins for the people boats to cross, we have a 20-minute wait before our bus arrives to drive the very scenic last hour to Copacabana. […]
Part 1: A Wild Ride to Sucre When a booked bus from Uyuni to Sucre went awry, dropping us off at the wrong transfer station in Potosí, we had to […]
Our entry to Bolivia was by way of a land crossing about 45 minutes from San Pedro de Atacama. The only way to travel over the desert and salt flats […]
Back to Chile our next adventure started with a 2.5 hour flight from Montevideo to Santiago, a 3.5 hour wait in the airport, and a 1.75 hour flight to Calama. […]
Just a 75-minute ferry ride from Buenos Aires lies the diminutive country of Uruguay. With a population of 3.5 million people, the majority living in the Montevideo area, this country […]
Following immediately on the heels of Rio (population 13.8 million), we cannot avoid a quick comparison of 2 ‘world-class’ cities 3 air hours apart (in South America, this might be […]
Rio de Janiero at autumn’s onset… We found it really difficult to stop using Spanish, which after a couple months was becoming almost automatic. And Brazil is a big deal country […]
As Santiago is the portal to Isla de Pascua (aka Easter Island), we felt immensely privileged to have the opportunity to visit this most westerly and remote part of Chile. […]
Another overnight bus ride (18 hrs) had us arrive in Mendoza around 8:30 am. The scenery was stunning. While there are several wine producing areas in Argentina, Mendoza is by […]
The holidays around Carnavale meant that we could not find a flight to head north, so a 24-hour bus ride was the alternative to transport us to Bariloche (full name […]
While Ushuaia is part of Patagonia, there are 2 more parts of Patagonia that we visited…the southern area of El Calafate / El Chaltén and the northern area around Bariloche. […]
An 11-hour bus ride took us across the Straight of Magellan by ferry, then “stamped out” of Chile an hour before the border crossing into Argentina, on our way to […]
A 3+ hour flight from Santiago to Puerto Natales, in the heart of Chile’s Patagonia. Puerto Natales (pop ~ 20,000) This town has no direct road connection to the rest […]
Exploring South America Well! We’ve finally run the technological gauntlet of seemingly global control over accessing your own accounts when not on your home computer! The entire google-sphere seems hell-bent […]
Glacier-Waterton National Parks 2023 We are delighted to share some of the highlights of our recent mountain hiking as we test our bodies and our gear in preparation for the […]