The final push!! It rains all night and the wind howls through the now broken tent zip, which means we’re awake early, and inside the campsite refugio warming up and drinking tea. We can’t get going until 10am as we have to pick Chris’ blood glucose reader up from the post office (we left it …
El Calafate to Torres del Paine
We take a bus to Perito Moreno Glacier, and it’s well worth it. Even the views from the bus are impressive! The glacier itself is huge, and it’s difficult to take in its enormity. It looks surreal, huge seracs standing upright on top of one another for miles onto the distance! We walk along boardwalks …
Cycling the Carratera Austral.
We head inland for seven miles after leaving the ferry and finally getting going. We reach Puerto Aysen and find a good coffee shop. We drink coffee and catch up on the phone with friends and family, before finally leaving with supplies, and heading east to join the Carratera Austral. The Carratera Austral is a …
Heading for Patagonia!
We get a bus to Temuco. It takes 8 hours overnight and suddenly we’re in central Chile surrounded by green forests, flowing rivers and glaciated volcanoes! Our other option would have been to weave in and out of built up areas for two weeks to get here, and we’re at the point now where we …