We’re not in Kansas anymore!
Dateline Purmamarca, Argentina. Saturday 15/04/2023 We leave Salta and make the short 158km run north to the quirky and charming village of Purmamarca. We start the day in cool rain and fog as...
Author: Rex and Sally
Salsa in Salta
Dateline Salta Province, Argentina. Thursday 13/04/2023 Ok so not exactly the Salsa but a high energy blend of Salsa, Flamenco and Tango all performed at volume eleven accompanied by a four piece Latin...
Bonito
Dateline Bonito, Pantanal Region, Brazil. Friday 07/04/2023 Bonito is the Portuguese word for beautiful. It is also the name of a small town in the edge of the Pantanal region of Brasil, except...
Rio de Janeiro
Dateline Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sunday 02/04/2023 Brasil is a country of over 200,000,000 people in a land area just marginally larger than Australia. All those people need to be fed so agriculture...
Meltdown in the Tropics.
Dateline Foz Do Iguacu, Brazil. Sunday 26/03/2023 When travelling in new parts of the world it is probably appropriate to lower ones’ expectations and thus avoid disappointment. It is fair to say that...
Buenos Aires!
Dateline Buenos Aires, Argentina. Wednesday 22/03/2023 Buenos Aires is ridiculously large. Some 16 million people live in the greater metropolitan area. It is also a ridiculously long way from Ushuaia. When we last...
A Yank, A Pom and an Aussie Walk Into a Bar.
Dateline Cerro Sombrero, Chile Wednesday 15/03/2023 If the weather last night looked awful then it is downright diabolical today. We leave Ushuaia, finally heading north after 4,600km of southward travel, in pouring rain...
The End of the World
Dateline Ushuaia Argentina. Monday 13/03/2023 Southward, ever southward the road beckons. From Torres Del Paine we leave the mountains again and return to the endless treeless steppe. Sheep, guanacos and the occasional rhea...
Glaciers and a Good Telling Off from the Argentinian Navy
Dateline El Calafate, Argentina. Thursday 09/03/2023 We leave El Chalten in our mirrors under clearing skies with the relentless Patagonian wind at our backs. Without the pouring rain of our arrival we are...
Cerro Fitzroy
Dateline Cerro Fitzroy, El Chalten, Argentina. Monday 06/03/2023 Cerro Fitzroy is perhaps the most photographed mountain in all South America. The soaring vertical granite spires tower menacingly over the tiny tourist town...
