Not long to go before we board the plane to start the long flight to visit our Gondwana cousins in South America. Always the last minute dash – washing, clean out the fridge etc - but we finally closed and locked our bags in readiness. We didn’t get much done in garden except harvest the parsley seeds (great crushed in just about everything), feed the fruit trees and give the mint a big haircut. All will be OK in our absence.
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| Travelling along the west coast of South America (Pic: Google Earth) |
Not long to go before we board the plane to start the long flight to visit our Gondwana cousins in South America. Always the last minute dash – washing, clean out the fridge etc - but we finally closed and locked our bags in readiness. We didn’t get much done in garden except harvest the parsley seeds (great crushed in just about everything), feed the fruit trees and give the mint a big haircut. All will be OK in our absence.
Santiago here we come then 6 weeks of amazing contrasts await. From Cape Horn in the south, past waddles of penguins, in and out fjords and glaciers in Chilean Patagonia, up through Chiles’s high dry Atacama desert with its huge candelabra cacti, salt caves and lakes, by volcanoes and flamingos, skirting brilliant turquoise and red high lakes of Bolivia only to then feast our eyes on hyacinth macaws and swim with the Amazon pink river dolphins (fingers crossed) on a journey to the headwaters of the mighty Amazon in the heart of Peru’s rain forest over 6000km in the northwest from where this journey began.
Enjoy this journey with me! South America is a bit of the unknown for us so I’ll try to post pix along the way.
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