We spent five weeks in Argentina on our first trip in 2005 but didn’t manage to make it to the northwest. So we decided to spend some time in this corner of the country this time around. This was an area we knew little about; our main Argentinian memories were bustling Buenos Aires and pretty…
Month: July 2016
San Pedro de Atacama: (allegedly) the driest desert in the world
San Pedro de Atacama in northern Chile is a place like nowhere else on earth. Where else can you see pink flamingoes, steaming geysers, white salt flats, multi-coloured high altitude lakes and conical volcanoes? San Pedro sits at 2,500m above sea level in the world’s driest desert where it only rains 15mm per year. Our visit just happened to…
The melting pot that is Miami
With our short jaunt through Central America over, we hot-footed it to Miami for a few days. It wasn’t somewhere we’d ever considered visiting but as we were passing through we thought we’d check it out. After our month in Panama, Costa Rica and Honduras; we were so used to speaking (our pigeon) Spanish we automatically…
Some of the best and worst things about travelling in Panama, Costa Rica and Honduras
One month gone already so a few observations on where we have been… Some of the best things: Beer is cheaper than water, always There are lots of cool and stylish hostels Delicious homemade chilli sauce is always available You can try and talk bad Spanish to everyone It’s not hard to get good coffee and wine There are…
Couple on Tour 