There were no semicama seats left when we booked so we splashed out and booked fully reclining cama seats for the bus to Santiago. This was much more comfortable but for some reason I didn’t sleep (classic Emma). We arrived early in the morning, figured out the metro and travelled to the area we were […]
Another bus trip, but this was quite an ok one and the scenery was pretty – Tom enjoyed looking at the farmland because it was similar to home. The number one thing we wanted to do is climb Vulcan Villarica and the weather for this was supposed to be good on our second day so […]
Travel day… probably not the smartest idea for our tired muscles but we were keen to head north to Bariloche so had first a 6hr and then a 26hr bus. Well, the 26hr bus turned into a 29hr bus. The scenery was the same for about 25 of those hours. We watched a movie, the […]
Day three This was going to be our longest and hardest day but also had lots of different scenery so, in spite of tired feet and many blisters, we were looking forward to it. First we had a couple of hours easy hike to Italiano campground here we could ditch our big packs and make […]
Up early again after a short night we caught the bus to Torres Del Paine national park with hundreds of other excited / nervous looking hikers. It was a 2hr drive to the park where we paid our entrance fee, had a safety briefing (basically, don’t set a fire or we will not only kick […]
Stocked up with supplies from the best bakery in the world we boarded the 5hr bus to Puerto Natales, Chile. Because we booked our seats late we were not next to each other but this turned out totally fine as I was able to sleep and read and Tom made a friend (Aussie Tom) and […]
We would be in El Calafate three times over the next couple of weeks. First was via a flight from BA which was about 5hrs. While the town was quite small when we arrived we initially managed to walk 20min in the wrong direction… after getting some wifi and directions from a friendly pizza shop […]
Is it too soon to declare this my favourite place in SA? Probably. However driving into El Chalten was super pretty with the mountains bang in front of you – now we really felt like we were in Patagonia. A lot of people told us we would be at the mercy of the weather here […]
We were actually really pleasantly surprised with our bus. It was pretty comfortable and we were even given a meal (a questionable almost inedible meal, but still). It was freezing cold though – noted for the next bus ride! We arrived in Puerto Iguassu and were able to walk a short distance to our hostel. […]
We arrived in BA on the 26th December and would be there until the evening of the first of Jan. The start of our trip had its moments – we were trying to get our head around how South America worked and at the same time get used to the idea of being unemployed. It […]
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