Well, New Year’s Day has come and gone. We are now at Ministro Pistarini International Airport in Buenos Airport about to our board our flight out of South America and on to New Zealand (but more on that later . . .) Admittedly we really only scratched the surface of...
The trip from Bariloche in Argentina to Puerto Varas in Chile by boat is one of the most popular tourist activities in Patagonia. And so we decided that Jo and Viv would embark on this excursion while yours truly volunteered to drive the rental car round. The term...
When I read up on Buenos Aires in travel books and websites I was struck by the exuberant, yet slightly unhelpful nature of the descriptions. Lonely Planet, for instance, describes the city as combining “faded European grandeur with Latin passion. Sexy and alive, this...
Interestingly when you Google “Bariloche and . . .” one of the instant fillers supplied by Google is “Nazis”. Over 9,000 high ranking third reich officers and collaborators reportedly fled to South America in 1945, and one of the favoured destinations was the...
Most tourists travelling to Machu Picchu from Cusco would take the train direct to Aguas Calientes which takes about three and quarter hours. But no – not our adventurous crew . . . Instead we decided to take an alternative route – by minibus up and down mountainous...