After leaving Chile we headed up to Peru, which has one of the best preserved Amazon regions in South America including many different...

After our Patagonian sausages (see previous post) we continued our general northerly direction of travel heading to the region of Chiloe...

Other than the sheep, a rather smug looking specimen of which appears on the flag, the most famous animal of the Falklands must be the...

The Falklands has extremely large breeding populations of Black-Browed Albatross. The Albatross in flight is an extremely graceful,...

Far away in the South Atlantic in the midst of the ‘Furious Fifties’ lie the Falkland Islands, a region whose only association in the...

Well, we made it to the Falklands and are making our way through the planned 3 week penguin extravaganza (with a few hundred nesting...

Another great few days enjoying the rugged (and in appearance disconcertingly Scottish looking) terrain on Easter Island. We also had the...

We’ve arrived on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) for the first of our relatively extended sequence of island stays. After all the chatter about...

The Chilean port city of Valparaiso (also called ‘La Joya del Pacifico’ as in the title of the post) used to be one of the major Pacific...

Now and again you find a situation when instead of squashing all local opposition a global brand finds it can’t really compete with all...