BACK TO COLOMBIA
REWINDING A LITTLE 9 July. It’s 5:30am. I’m awake early again. Too many things running through my head to sleep. The truck ships in 2 days, there’s paperwork to organize, flights to book, insurance to arrange and endless jobs to tick off before we leave South America. We’re sitting in Cartagena, back where this adventure […]
UYUNI, BOLIVIA – THE WORLDS LARGEST SALT PAN
OUT OF ARGENTINA – INTO BOLIVIA 4-9 May 2026. The plan had been simple enough: drive to Uyuni then on to La Paz where we would leave the camper at a campground outside the city, and spend a couple of nights in a hotel exploring the chaos and energy of the capital. But Bolivia had […]
TORRES DEL PAINE NATIONAL PARK, CHILE
I felt it immediately coming over the rise above the Río Serrano Entrance. This was different. More beautiful than expected—dramatically so. After six months in the Andes, living among mountains, we’re not easily surprised by big landscapes anymore. But this… this landed somewhere deeper. I feel it in my chest, it actually took my breath away. […]
TIERRA DEL FUEGO – CHILE
A REMOTE BORDER CROSSING After saying goodbye to Manuel who had 10 days to ride to Buenos Aires for his flight home to Switzerland, we crossed back into Chile. Rio Bella Vista is a tiny, relaxed border post miles from anywhere. Marked by these neat rusted steel markers I struggled to get a good photo […]
BACK TO EL CHALTEN
28 Jan – 1 Feb. Can’t get enough of this great place. This time we found a slightly better spot at camp, up at the front where the wind carried a little less dust. Camped across from us was a French family from Réunion Island travelling with their four children. Introductions were easy. The kids bonded quickly, and ours were relieved to find others their age. Plans of hiking quickly disappeared. The kids now dictated the day, and it was all about them — hanging out with the other teens and not about schoolwork. So for the next couple of days we lingered — sharing stories, swapping travel tips, and learning about far-off French islands scattered around the world. The kids had fun during an indoor climbing session in town. Nicholas and Sandrine, both doctors, were travelling for seven months before moving to one of those small French islands off the coast of Newfoundland. RETRACING FURTHER NORTH We had actually missed Perito Moreno National Park entirely. We passed through the town of Perito Moreno and visited the Perito Moreno Glacier, but hadn’t realized there was also a Perito Moreno National Park. Confusingly, all three places share the same name yet are spread more than 600 kilometres apart. Huw and Sara were heading there for the hiking, as were Nicholas and Sandrine. The AllTrails app suggested an epic multi-day hike that seemed to have our name on it. The following morning we pointed the truck north to explore what many call one of the most beautiful parts of Argentina. Post Views: 150
EL CALAFATE & GLACIERS NATIONAL PARK
24-27 January 2026. With the wind finally at our back, we pointed the truck south toward El Calafate. Beyond El Chaltén, the mountains fell away, replaced by vast open grasslands stretching in every direction. Patagonia laid bare. Nothing but long wire fences, endless steppe, and roaming guanaco for miles. The road ran straight and exposed, the […]
CARRETERA AUSTRAL – MARBLE CAVES AND TURQUOISE LAKES, CHILE
DUST, MARBLE AND THE COLOUR OF WATER 7 – 10th January. Leaving Cerro Castillo behind, the carretera carried us onward toward Puerto Río Tranquilo. The landscape opening out into wide valleys and 100km long, exposed stretches of very dusty gravel roads. Traffic was 80% adventure bikers and cyclists, 10% overland vehicles and 10% locals. Brazilian […]
CARRETERA AUSTRAL – HIKING CERRO CASTILLO, CHILE
Hiking Patagonia 6 January. Long, sweeping curves lead us down into the valley leading to the striking Cerro Castillo. We camped together with Sara & Huw in a windy, dusty carpark, everything slowly coated in fine grit each time a vehicle passed — which was far too often. The next morning we set out early-ish, […]
CARRETERA AUSTRAL – Yelcho Lake to Futaleufú, Patagonia Chile
Rivers, Rapids and a Slice of Old Patagonia 26 – 29th December Boxing Day morning Our plan was simple: drive until something beautiful made us stop. We left Chaitén the same way we had arrived — wrapped in rain. Low cloud pressed down over the hills, the volcano fading behind us as the road pulled […]
CHILOÉ ISLAND, CHILE
Ancud 19-21 December. Chiloé lies off Chile’s southern coast, where the mainland begins to unravel into fjords, islands, and open sea. Separated by a narrow channel, it marks a quiet threshold between the more ordered landscapes of the north and the wilder, rain-soaked south. The island sits low and green in the Pacific, shaped by […]
SAMIPATA & SUCRE, BOLIVIA
15 – 19th November The road from Santa Cruz to Samaipata winds steadily up into the cool, green foothills of the Andes, trading the heat of the lowlands for misty curves, dense cloud forest, and sudden viewpoints that made us pull over just to breathe it all in. SAMIPATA Samaipata is a relaxed, bohemian little […]
SANTA CRUZ, BOLIVIA
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia’s largest and most modern city, sits low in the tropical plains of the eastern lowlands—a world apart from the chilly Andean altiplano most travellers picture when they think of Bolivia. Founded by the Spanish in 1561 and later relocated to its current spot after repeated Indigenous resistance, Santa Cruz […]