At 07.14 in the morning as we were getting ready to leave Santiago, Chile experienced in world terms a large earthquake, some 6.2 on the Richter Scale. The epicentre was at Punitaqui some 400 kms …
Continue readingTag: Photography
Santiago de Chile – Centre of Chile
Chile’s capital city of nearly seven million dominates the country with nearly 40% of Chile’s population, sits in a big bowl surrounded on all sides by the Andes mountains that protect it from the Pacific …
Continue readingPucón – Smoking Volcano
On Easter Sunday we headed North out of Bariloche through the picturesque Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi, with its autumnal colours and attractive lake and mountain backdrop on our journey back into Chile. The border crossing …
Continue readingSan Carlos de Bariloche – Chocolate and Lakes
We arrived in Bariloche just before Easter and the town was getting ready for its Easter celebrations. Bariloche sits in the Argentinian Lake District and has a distinct Alpine feel to it, and indeed the …
Continue readingRuta 40 – Journey back North
We left El Chalten at sunrise and the beguiling Mount Fitz Roy was standing proud bathed in orange, in complete contrast to the various shades of blue in the previous days. It is a stunning …
Continue readingEl Chalten – Changing Mountains
The tourist town of El Chalten sits at the northern end of the National Park and has been massively developed in recent years to service the nearby tourist industry as Argentina has created facts on …
Continue readingIn Patagonia!
The journey North from Ushuaia, took us back across Tierra del Fuego and a repeat visit to the famous bakery at Tolhuin to pick up supplies on our journey North. After passing through the border …
Continue readingTierra del Fuego – The End of The World
From Torres del Paine we carried on down South to Ushuaia, the most Southerly permanent settlement in the World on the Island of Tierra del Fuego. The border between Argentina and Chile at the Southern …
Continue readingTorres del Paine – The W Walk
Into Chile our first destination was the awesome Torres del Paine National Park, the location for four days trekking on the W Walk, a trek shaped like the letter W that goes up and down …
Continue readingEl Calafate – Perito Moreno Glacier
After driving through the dry landscape of Argentinian Patagonia we reached the massive Southern Peaks of The Andes at El Calefate, a tidy tourist town on Lago Argentino, that services the nearby UNESCO World …
Continue reading