Land of Ice and Snow
The thing that strikes me most about Antarctica is the vast emptiness. It is endless thousands of miles of nothing but ice and snow. There are no trees just the occasional simple lichen or moss […]
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Antarctica
Now this is an adventure. We get on our ship, the ‘Ushuaia’, from (surprise) Ushuaia, right at the bottom tip of Argentina. As we are sailing out of the Beagle Channel towards Antarctica, we see […]
Torres del Paine
Standing on the street in icy sleet before I’m properly awake isn’t the best way to start the day. We were waiting for the bus to the Torres del Paine National Park at ridiculous o’clock, […]
In Patagonia, Chile
Patagonia is a huge and mysterious area of wilderness that stretches across both southern Chile and Argentina, bisected by the Andes mountains running down the middle and forming the border. It covers over a million […]
Adventurous Hermit 