And so I am on a ferry and it is the truck carrying kind not the Sydney Harbour kind, crossing the second largest lake in Sth America (apparently Titicaca is the largest). The day starts out brisk but sunny. I drop my big bags off to be stored at the front of the boat and carry my hand luggage and food to a spot in the sun. I spend a relaxing co...

These last few days of traveling, there´s been a lot of time and lots of peace and quiet too, mixed with some adventurous moments. Í´ve been thinking about you all--mother and daddy (Jus and Eddie), you especially would absolutely love this scenery. I think that Patagonia is the best kept secret on this beautiful planet. Each bus ride on a dirt ...

Photos: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=3 7544&l=4a0c1&id=551865803 20th Jan Unfortunately we hadn´t spotted that the hotel was right next to a Discoteque and Pub. With it being Saturday night they didn´t shut till atleast 4 with al the music and shouting I didn´t get much sleep (Lucy can sleep through most things). We got up and t...

The bus we took down Ruta 40 was one way so we were contemplating the cheapest return way to Bariloche when Christine showing fantastic foresight made friends with two guys, Mike and Steve (so lovely) who were driving around S. America in a landrover and happened to be heading back up to Bariloche via Chile that day. We eagerly jumped at the cha...

After two weeks of small and even smaller towns, finally we got to a real city! There's even a home-center here! After wondering one day among the amasingly full shelves of the city's supermarkets, we decided that we are ready to go on. As we couldn't find anyway to escape the Caratera and return straight to Argentina, we bought a bus ticket to ...

After crossing the border from Los Antigous we spent a night in Chile Chico. It was a small town by a lake with not much to say about it, so we haven´t done an entry for it. It did have apricot trees along the streets tho and we got a bit excited by that. Up a heck of a lot of Patagonian Chile runs the Carratera Austral, this road weaves through...

Holy smokes the wind! Even the statues lean into it! The wind was at our backs, thankfully up the big hill before Coyhaique; which gave us a bit of time to enjoy all of the beautiful lupines. We dropped down into the Coyhaique valley and were suddenly presented with a large city (pop 45,000 or so) and so many choices! Where to stay? What to eat?...

There are dogs all over the place in Central and South America. No-one seems to do anything about strays so they wander the streets alone or in packs, apparently breeding and cross-breeding at will. Mostly they are very docile and harmless although they are often in a pretty wretched state, but occasionally you get the odd one here or there that...

Vendredi j´ai pris le bus avec John, Rachel et Pieter ainsi que 2 autres Sudafricains, Mark et Kevin. Rachel et John font un tour du monde: apres 6 mois en Asie, les voila en Amérique du Sud jusque début juin. Tout comme moi, ils ont un blog sur ce site, cliquez ici pour lire leur fabuleux périple... Départ du bus: 9h. Distance: 400 km, dont rip...

It was a long and nerve wracking return trip up the Carretera Austral, but within ten hours we were safely back in Coyhaique. We had duct-taped the windshield to the frame to keep the worst of the wind and rain out, and wired up the muffler as one of the brackets had broken yet again. Our friendly mechanic Santiago was very surprised to see us b...