We have just waved Fi off after a great couple of weeks checking out the South of Uruguay. After a whistle stop tour of Buenos Aires in 36hrs that left her feet sore and questioning whether Hiles Tours was such as good idea, we took the boat over to Uruguay for 10 days. Here Uruguay's weather did its best to blow us all the way back to Argentina, but we clung on and survived a day of storms in the capital Montevideo. We set off on a tour of museums (pretty mu...

We left you at the End of the World but are most definately back in the hustle and bustle of civilisation now. Dancing a Tango, partying until 8am and guzzling down an offal barbeque - all things team Hiles have studiously avoided here in Buenos Aires. We have had a great time in our own little way however, walking our socks off to see all the sights - markets, harboursides, tango show, La Boca, Casa Rosada (although with great disappointment we weren't allowed...

It's taken nearly 7 months and we are over 13,000 kms from home but we are finally at 'Fin del Mundo' (End of the World). It's all north from here. After completing the trek in Torres del Paine we headed further south in Chile to Punta Arenas aiming to see some Penguins and for the rest period to begin. Luckily there was a colony that hadn't headed south yet and we visited an island of over 120,000 of the smartly dressed beauties. The noise and smell were someth...

Things we have learned on a 5 day 'W' trek in Torres Del Paine National Park, in Southern Chile. 1. Team Hiles are not natural campers 2. It is possible to walk over 100km in 5 days with a full backpack and remain married 3. When given unseasonably good weather, the treking is actually quite pleasurable (no sign of the trademark 120kph gusts of wind or rain - sorry Jey & Amy) 4. 5 days only really requires one shower, tops 4b. and no razor 5. Dan does n...

This entry comes after a couple of weeks of walking our socks off in Argentinian Patagonia. Superlatives are becoming rather useless as the landscape gets increasingly stunning and regularly render us (one of us who grew up with the magnificence of Cheddar Gorge on his doorstep) speechless. We arrived in Baroliche via a surreal border crossing where all the mountains are covered by ash and rock from Chile's 2010 massive volcanic eruption. After the somewhat hi...