After many weeks of fun and adventures, we finally left Argentina and headed for Chile. A scenic 5 hour bus ride from El Calafate to Puerto Natales found us on the West side of Patagonia. Puerto Natales is another small functional rural town, and like El Chalten it is beginning to close down for the season as the winter rolls in. It is a gorgeous little place sitting on a lake a couple of hours from the main attraction around here ¨Torres Del Paine National Park¨. This National Park is the home to some monster mountains and arguably the most stunning [View Full Entry]

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written by Miss Wendy O Hello Antartic Conditions, Hello Sunsets, Goodbye Sunshine. Our last stop, and the coldest stop bbbbbrrrrr, in Argentina was El Calafate and El Chalten in South Patagonia. After muchos research and frustrating broken spanish conversations with various bus companies we decided to cop out of the 3 day bumpy bus ride from Bariloche to El Calafate and instead jump on a one hour flight! In hindsight we probably can't really afford it after Stuart spent AG$96 in the postoffice posting a letter back to Oz (don't ask but let's just say there may have been a break [View Full Entry]

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We thought Mendoza would be hard to beat as a great place to spend a few days, then we got to Bariloche…… Bariloche is the first decent sized town you come to as you head south into Patagonia. Patagonia inspires thoughts of wide open spaces, huge mountains, glistening lakes and some of the last true wilderness areas on the Planet. It lives up to all of that. We caught our first glimpse of the Patagonian landscape with the dawn on our bus from Mendoza. It was gorgeous, desert landscape with scrubby plants and huge lakes. In the distance there are hills [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Mendoza fresh from an overnight bus journey from the most boring city ever - Cordoba, see previous blog for details… Mendoza immediately struck us as being a beautiful town, with wide tree lined streets, plenty of pedestrian areas, and a great casual air. It is also really easy to get around, with a big central park (Plaza) and four satellite plazas spaced evenly to make the town look like a 5 on a dice. We also quickly found a huge public park with a lake in the middle, where we were able to run in peace and safety [View Full Entry]

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written by Miss Wendy O Question: How many photographs can one take of waterfalls and butterflies? So after a very comfortable 18hr bus journey we arrived in Iguazu. Now I know the bus journey sounds aweful but I can´t express just how comfortable these buses are. Your seat reclines to almost a horizontal position, you´re greeted with champers on arrival and fed and entertained with movies. I of course slept like a demon all the way and Stuart ... well I think he got a few hours kip in between twiddling his thumbs and getting bored. We checked into a really [View Full Entry]

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written by Miss Wendy O Just when you think our rub-your-face-in-it blog was becoming a bit too predicatable, we decided to ditch our RTW itinerary, change our flights and change continents for a taste of Latin America. We´ve spent 2 weeks in Buenos Aires, Argentina, home to Che (the dude on the bike), tango and to the finest steaks in the world. Touching down was a welcoming return to civilisation from the basic African life. Finally .... shops, bars and restaurants. There is definitely a european feel about BS AS and being Europeans ourselves we fit right in!!! The Latin vibe [View Full Entry]

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written by Mister Stuart R The Mountain Kilimanjaro is a massive, hulking mountain dominating the plains of Northern Tanzania. At 5,895m (19,339ft), it is the highest free standing mountain in the world and the highest point in Africa. The mountain is an old volcano with two distinct craters - Kibo and Mawenzi. Mawenzi is the more dramatic, with towering rugged crags and incredible tightrope ridges. Kibo is higher than Mawenzi, but appears more docile, displaying a classic steep sided crater structure. As well as being the home to the highest summit on Kilimanjaro, U [View Full Entry]

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written by Miss Wendy O Jambo Jambo Bwana Habari Gani Mzuri Sana Check me out getting all Swahili! Arriving in Zanzibar, Tanzania was a relief to say the least. Compared to Lose-A-Week (Mozambique) is it warm, friendly and relaxed. The Tanzanians are open and warm spirited. OK a spot of history. Tanzania is where human beings are thought to have evolved from. The mainland, Tanganyika, was once a German colony (but let’s not hold that against them) and Zanzibar Island was a British colony. After WWI, the League of Nations mandated Tanganyika to Britain. Shortly af [View Full Entry]

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Mozambique ... by Miss Wendy O This blog is intentionally very detailed as a guide to others wishing to travel in Northern Mozambique, especially those looking for advice on who to cross the Nayuchi - Entre Lagos border between Malawi and Mozambique. Despite research, Stuart and I failed to find much information on this route which would have been most helpful and at the time of planning may have influenced our travel plans. For those not interested in the detail, you can skip this blog.... So setting off from Liwonde, Malawi our ultimate destination was Ilha De Mozamb [View Full Entry]

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