Having moved on to the Atacama, we’ve had a busy day. San Pedro is a funky little place with unmade roads, everything hidden behind low mud walls, and a very lovely hotel for us. This […]

Well, Torres Del Paine to Punta Arenas to Santiago actually!  Sad to leave the National park, and the drive was long but pretty in places, and then a few hours on the plane. I take […]

This thing about about Patagonia being windy is clearly nonsense! The lakes were like mill ponds again this morning, the sun rose as we left the hotel at 7:30 for  a 45 minute drive to […]

On advice we changed our plans for todays activities, based on the fact that much of what we would have seen was already bettered by what we saw yesterday. Today dawned bright, sunny and as […]

It seems that it has not been possible to add any comments to the blog. I have now tracked that down and fixed the issue. Please feel free to add you comments now! Richard

We have moved on… catching up… since Perito Merino Glacier, we have.. Spent  a quieter day in El Calafate – visiting the lagoon to see birds, and searching for an optician to mend my sunglasses! […]

An early-ish start for the drive out to Punta Banderas, where we boarded the Chonek for a 7 hour cruise on Lago Argentino. This took us to nearby the front of Upsala Glacier, where we […]

We left El Chalten and the “impossible to ignore, impossible not to photograph” Fitzroys. A remarkable wild west town that was only founded in 1985, it is full of character, but has a few shortcomings […]

 We started out by visiting a couple of viewpoints near to town with great views of the mountains. Hung around for ages waiting for the last wisps of cloud to blow away. We saw a […]

Today’s weather started out ok, but cloud descended. We were mostly in sun and dry, but higher up things were not great. The above shot was from half way into our hike, later views were […]