Machu Picchu For many a visit to the Inca city of Machu Picchu is the long-anticipated highpoint of their trip in South America. In a spectacular location, it’s the best-known archaeological site on the continent, and possibly in the world. This awe-inspiring ancient city was never revealed to the conquering Spaniards and therefore was forgotten and preserved until the early part of the 20th century. Despite the great tourist influx, up to 3000 per day, the s...

Brasil A short recap for a short stay. With initial plans not encompassing brazil at all, we naturally hadn't developed much expectations. We knew it to be a vast country both in size and population and that it is one of the more costly nations in the continent, so we didn't think to stay there long. Additionally, knowing that the national language was Portuguese we were in for some adventures! We entered Brazil from Uruguay along the Atlantic Coast on route f...

Fun and philosophy "Awe my throats hurts, and I'm sitting on a bus for the next 15 hours." Alright that's all the whinging and b****ing allowed. Life is good, life is slow, no point focusing on those things that bring us down huh, another drink?! Like the islands of the pacific, this was the theme of our time on the Uruguayan coast. Dreadlocks and surfboards flock to the coast to enjoy the tranquil bliss of Uruguay. What seems like the little brother of Bra...

It has been some time since my last post, both due to being lazy and generally just having lots of things going on. In the last few weeks we have travelled some distance, and gone against our original plans and intrepid style, to end up now in Uruguay of all places. A little out of the ordinary, well for us anyway. We have relaxed and enjoyed some luxuries and not being super active. Kinda being normal tourists in a way, I suppose. Exploring the interior and ex...

Feeling alive: An intrepid travel adventure. A bit of context: Futuro Parque Patagonia provided the platform for our latest trekking epic. The park is a recent conservation development by Conservacion Patagonia, headed by Kris and Doug Tompkins - owners of North face and Patagonia clothing brands. In 2004, some 15 million was spent purchasing estancia chacabuco, a sheep and cattle ranch in the aysen region of Chile, for the previous 90 years. The land totalled ...