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…
Hiking in spectacular Torres del Paine with the kids
The main draw of the Torres Del Paine national park are the world famous mulitiday hikes, the so called W and O routes around the mountains, named after the rough shape the trails take. These trails are something we would…