Food & Drink, Country by Country - All of the things worth trying in South America
Chile Empenadas: Typical Chilean fast food, it's sort of like a baked calzone, but Empenadas Pinot, the typical Chilean empenada, comes with meat, onions, hardboiled egg, and olives. They are so cheap and so good, we had one every day. Alfajors: Dulce de leche (delicious caramel, directly translated...
Colombia and Casa en el Agua
Let’s start this post by just talking about Colombia in general, because it was our favourite country in South America. Forget about the fresh fruit falling from trees everywhere on the street, the coffee, or the incredible Caribbean weather, Colombia is the best country in South America because of...
Galapagos Islands - A Week in Paradise
When we arrived at the Baltra Airport, just North of Santa Crus Island, we read that you can sometimes see iguanas roaming the area around the airport; we were so excited, we had our eyes glued to the ground outside the bus. Little did we know that there were thousands of iguanas everywhere you look...
Cusco, Machu Picchu, and the Sacred Valley
We had a whirlwind adventure in Cusco, Machu Picchu, and the Sacred Valley. We arrived in Cusco by plane, and spent the first few days exploring the city, getting ready for our big Lares Trek, and exploring the nearby archaeological sites. We were excited to find a delicious french bakery two doors...
Colca Canyon
Colca Canyon is the second deepest canyon in the world, only to another canyon a short distance away in Peru. We decided to do our own trek through the canyon and take our time to enjoy the scenery a bit more. The first day we had a 3:30am pick-up from our hostel for the bus to take us to the trailh...
Salar de Uyuni
Uyuni is one of those adventures that, while it is always an adventure, does not always end up being a positive experience depending on the company you go with. Luckily for us, we had a great guide who (shockingly, I know) remained sober for the full duration of our drive through the national park a...
Desert Adventures in the Driest Place on Earth
While we only spent about five days in San Pedro, they were packed with tours every day. The town itself was really cool, aside from the desert heat that we hadn’t experienced in years. It was a tiny little colonial town, almost entirely built around tourism. While that meant a lot of tour companies...
Work, Wine and Holidays in Buenos Aires
Brad’s friend Nick from Australia contacted us to say he and his wife, Jen, were coming to Buenos Aires, so naturally we had to stick around to enjoy New Years with friends. In order to fund this extended stay in “BA” we had to work for a couple weeks. Our first workaway was at Caseron de Palermo, a...
Cabo Polonio: A Luddite's Paradise
We arrived at the bus station outside the national park, and hitched a ride on a massive 4x4 truck to take us through the sand dunes to get to the village of Cabo Polonio. Cabo could best be described as a hippie beach town that has rejected the modern lifestyle for a more simple way of life. The h...
El Fin del Mundo, Tierra del Fuego
Ushuaia – “el fin del mundo” – is the southernmost city on Earth in Tierra del Fuego, and considering the cold, rainy, windy misery that has been our weather up until this point in Patagonia, we were pleasantly surprised by the end of the world. Ushuaia was a quaint, picturesque (and sunny!) city su...
'W Trek" - 5 days of Beautiful scenery spent hiking 80km
With our new friends Jamie and Sam, we started our five day long “W” trek through Torres Del Paine National Park. We were told to expect terrible winds and non-stop rain our entire trek, but we somehow managed to have awesome weather our entire five days, which we were very thankful for. Our first d...
Valparaiso
The city of colour, life, and fiesta! We stayed at Hostel Po that worked with local street artists to decorate each room, and each was more interesting than the last. Valparaiso was a four day food and drink vacation. We had some amazing squid ceviche, Chilean meats and cheeses, and tried as much Ch...