Great photography I enjoted your blog and wish you luck in tasmania. My wife and I loved our visit to Australia but did not get to see Tasmania. Ricky Ponting is from Tasmania. Have you any tips on how to publicize a blog?
Roger
wow! What a trip! I would like to ask about the cost of the trip. Also, how soon did you get to start the trip, was it like the day after you told the guides you wanted to do it?
Thanks for Mindo photos! We saw your posts on LP while planning our Ecuador trip. Very helpful. We could appreciate your photos and your "extra" about making cocoa. You made us want to go to Mindo!
getting there Hey there -
Loved your blog post! I'm planning a similar trip with my boyfriend. Our must-sees seem pretty in line with yours - start in Quito, hit Cotopaxi, Banos, Puerto Lopez/ Isla de la plata. We'll be there for 10 days or so. My question for you is how you got to all of those places. Is there a bus resource I can make reservations with ahead of time? Or if not, how did you manage the connections?
Thanks so much in advance for your help!
Vanessa
Bloody great summary We are coming close to the end of our trip and couldnt agree more on your assessment. Spot on with your comment on cheese. Looking forward to your next adventure
Torres the great Torres is our number one experience of travelling around South America. Sitting eating a stale sandwich above the Grey Glacier was actually my number one feed on this trip. So glad you got to get back there and experience it, and to write up a great blog about it. Hard to convey the beauty in words but i think you have nailed it superbly.....great work.
JEALOUS We are kicking ourselves that we didnt take the trip across to Puerto Williams when we were down there, it sounds amazing. Oh well there is always the next trip.
A great write up on Salvador...it is a very unique place. Shelley loved it but I am still unsure about it. It is one of those places that your mind still wanders back to and despite my general dislike of Brasil (yes i know i am in a minority), Salvador was one of the more unique places.
Great to see you back blogging
Congrats on taking a second chance! Great photos and prose, as usual, and what a fine place to end your adventures! I´m imagining that pre-dawn, mist-shrouded walk was to the Torres (I´ve heard that story before). I spent a week in P. Natales in March 2011 waiting for a break in the raging storms, so I could do the W. Instead, on the one day of light rain, I took a bus tour (where we also never saw the Torres) before the storms returned. So happy that you got to do the trek. As the I Ching saws, "perseverence furthers."
BOW TO YOU Fantastic trip...superb summary...wow, wow, wow. Thank you umpires...thank you ball boys...time to pull up stumps. You are very fortunate to have had such adventures...and you have the pics and the tales to remember and savour it for many years to come. Hope you continue the travel bug...there's plenty out there worth discovering.
So where/what is "the best dish in Chile"? Just wondering where you found that dish? I'm hoping you'll say it's something you found in Natales so I can indulge after my Circuit trek!
Fanstastic we have been following your blog whenever time allowed us to and we really enjoyed it. All the good stuff come to the end one day but your summary is brilliant;-) we can agree on some although our trip in South America was not that extensive. Hope to see more of your blogs in the future;-)
B&T
What a trip!!! I've enjoyed following your travels and hope to do some of the same areas in 2014...much shorter trip, however. Good luck on your future, and I'm looking forward to hearing from you in Tasmania.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE IN THE WORLD I've been to some spectacular vistas...but Torres del Paine...my Number 1. We were lucky with the weather...many I know not so. Congrats on returning and experiencing it in its splendour...bit like rectifying a regret...well done!
How busy were the camp sites? Hey Will, great set of blogs from SA - I'm planning a trip in the near future, so I'm finding them both entertaining and informative. I was wondering if I could bother you with a question: How busy were the campsites during your trek? If I make it down to TDP, it would be a last-minute side trip, and I'm wondering if it is possible to do the trek, staying at campsites, w/o making reservations.
Cheers,
- Kevin
Perfect almost-ending to your great adventure! Patagonia is also my favorite place so far in South America, but you really went the untrodden route in Isla Navarrino. What a fantastic balance between the cozy camaraderie of the refuge and the days of solitary camping! I'll miss your adventures and send best wishes for an unforgettable last two weeks.
Will repost If you don't mind, I'd like to repost this on my FB page (Lifeisacelebration) for my blogger friends here to read. I don't dive, but they do. Even I am amazed by all those underwater creatures-- so colorful, so lovely!
Just what I need Rio is my bucket list. Imagine me reading up on all the posts on Rio. And then this. It's just what I needed to know. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Rio. I'd be sure to be checking out your other blogs. Love the writing. ?[:)]
I had missed your blogs and was delighted to see this one... one of the best write ups of Salvador I've ever read. You wouldn't happen to be returning there for Carnival, would you?
Rotten weather back home... I can see why you would rather stay on a tropical beach...beautiful pictures by the way. Looking forward to your next blog to help us dream as we enter winter...a lot of snow due here next week, but that is expected for Colorado. Anyway, keep on blogging!
We live to travel - and we travel to live. We've been exploring the globe together for the past 13 years - and there's still so much to see. In March 2013 we moved from the United Kingdom to the other side of the globe - our new home is Tasmania and we look forward to getting to know this gorgeous part of the world.
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Roger Sutherland
Great photography
I enjoted your blog and wish you luck in tasmania. My wife and I loved our visit to Australia but did not get to see Tasmania. Ricky Ponting is from Tasmania. Have you any tips on how to publicize a blog? Roger