Overland from San Pedro de Atacama to the magnificent Bolivian Uyuni Salt Flat with children
The Bolivian salt flat (the Salar de Uyuni) is the largest salt flat in the world. It covers more than 11,000 square kilometres, and is so flat that its altitude varies less than a metre across its entire surface; these…
Llama drama in the Atacama desert
The Atacama Desert lies 2500m up on a plateau in Northern Chile surrounded by the Andes to the east and the Chilean Coastal Range to the west. To say it is ‘parched’ is an understatement. It is the third driest…
A couple of days in El Calafate, Argentina
So, you’re ready to head off and visit Los Glaciares national park, but you’ve also got a couple of days to fill in El Calafate? Here’s what we did in town. El Calafate is a new town, only founded in…
An unforgettable day walking on the Perito Moreno Glacier with the kids
Located in the South Patagonian ice field, Argentina’s Glacier Perito Moreno is one of the world’s most impressive, and fortunately for us reasonably accessible, glaciers in the world. It is some 30km long and around 5km wide at the foot…
Out and about in Punta Arenas, southern Chile
Like many of the great polar expeditions (for example Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition), we visited Punta Arenas both on our way down to deepest southern Patagonia, and also on our return journey north. For tourists, Punta Arenas is often a…
Ushuaia, Argentina: Walking to Glacier Martial and in Tierra del Fuego national park
One of Rafe’s wishes for this trip around the world was to get up close to, and if possible to walk on, a glacier. In New Zealand we sighted the Franz Josef glacier but couldn’t get particularly close to it…
Ushuaia, Argentina: The wildlife of the Beagle Channel by boat
One of our aims on this trip has been to sample as many outer reaches of the compass as possible around the world, so we were keen to get as far south as we could – which led us to…
Puerto Natales – a Breeze
There is lot of GoreTex and Vibram soles in Puerto Natales, the capital of the Última Esperanza province in Patagonian Chile. The province is named after the Última Esperanza Sound which translates as Last Chance and is a reference to…
Adventuring Together
