Fresh, or perhaps not too fresh! from 2 months sailing around Antarctica and the Subantarctic Islands, we had barely 3 weeks to unpack and get our house, visas and vaccinations in order before it was time to start packing for South America. In spite of, or maybe because of, the crush of time, excitement mounted daily in anticipation of new unknown places and experiences. Finally we closed and locked our bags ready for the long flight halfway around the world to visit our Gondwanan cousins in South America. Such a huge and mysterious and to us unknown continent. Santiago here we come!
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| We'll be travelling mostly along the west coast of South America (Google Earth) |
Six weeks of amazing contrasts awaited us. From Cape Horn in the extreme south we were to journey past waddles of penguins, in and out of the fjords and glaciers of Chilean Patagonia, up through Chiles’s high dry Atacama Desert with its huge candelabra cacti, salt caves and lakes, by volcanoes and flamingos, then skirt around the brilliant turquoise and red high lakes of Bolivia. If that weren't enough we hoped to finally feast our eyes on hyacinth macaws, exotic plants and monkeys and if possible to swim with the Amazon Pink River Dolphins on a journey to the headwaters of the mighty Amazon in the heart of Peru’s steaming rain forest over 6000 km northwest from where this exciting journey begins.
So sit back, turn the pages and enjoy this journey with us!
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