Ben and Ange - On the Road

Trip: South America

There are [90] stories from my trip: South America

Wines in Mendoza - Pisco in Valle Elqui

ARGENTINA | Thursday, 17 Apr 2008 | Views [602]

Bit hard to visit THE wine region of South America - well Argentina at the very least - and not include a wee few comments on said beverage. Of course it must be said that there are three very important points about the wine over here: It´s ... Read more >

Ascensores in Valparaiso

CHILE | Friday, 11 Apr 2008 | Views [621]

This place is so quirky, retro, ecclectic that it even had me taking pictures of graffiti! Tis an old coastal city perched on the hills around a bay. Some clever one from way back decided to save the townsfolk from oversized calf muscles and built ... Read more >

Santiago - The Big Smoke

CHILE | Friday, 11 Apr 2008 | Views [672]

So we made it to our second South American capital - Santiago! Which incidentally is also a fairly common name given to boys here in South America and its shortened to "Santi" which is pretty neat. Anyhoo. We were forewarned ... Read more >

Gallery: Santiago, Valparaiso and Mendoza

ARGENTINA | Friday, 11 Apr 2008 | Photo Gallery

Cities cities cities
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Fanta or Fanta

ARGENTINA | Monday, 7 Apr 2008 | Views [1232]

So two and a half months in we feel like maybe we´re making a teeny bit of headway with this whole Español language thang. Maybe. Certainly the vocab is slowly increasing... but we´re doing a fine job of butchering any structure or grammar that might ... Read more >

Climbing an Active Volcano

CHILE | Friday, 4 Apr 2008 | Views [1069]

Our final stop in the wonderful Patagonia was Pucon! An irresistably gorgeous wee town snuggled up to an active volcano! Volcan Villarica is a classic pyramid shaped volcano of about 2800m and is still active! It huffs and puffs away and apparently ... Read more >

Gallery: Climbing an Active Volcano

CHILE | Wednesday, 2 Apr 2008 | Photo Gallery

The Volcano near Pucon, as well as the lake and hotsprings!
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Gallery: White Water Rafting

ARGENTINA | Friday, 28 Mar 2008 | Photo Gallery

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Barriloche, Circuito Chico and Ben plays the Spoons

ARGENTINA | Friday, 28 Mar 2008 | Views [713] | Comments [1]

Pheeee-ew!!! Have just updated the photees! So our belated Glaciar and El Chalten shots are now up. As are the ones of this area - the Lakes District and Barriloche! Actually its San Carlos de Barriloche but hell thats way too much of a mouthful ... Read more >

White Water Rafting

ARGENTINA | Friday, 28 Mar 2008 | Views [543]

Yee Har!! That´s the words that best describe the day, rafting down the river in Bariloche near the Chilean border. The day started with being picked up at 9am and being asked if we had our passports after we had already left our hostel. Of course bloody ... Read more >

Gallery: Barriloche, Circuito Chico and Ben plays the Spoons

ARGENTINA | Friday, 28 Mar 2008 | Photo Gallery

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Gallery: Glaciars, Lagunas & the Flu

ARGENTINA | Friday, 28 Mar 2008 | Photo Gallery

El Calafate & El Chalten!
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Glaciars, Lagunas and the Flu

ARGENTINA | Wednesday, 19 Mar 2008 | Views [691] | Comments [3]

Well hey again. A couple of pre ramble points: 1. Photees will have to follow shortly. Sorry - current internet is painfully slow (read; Ange tries not to smash head into screen repeatedly). 2. The COMMENTS function has been switched on. For all ... Read more >

Gallery: Torres del paine

CHILE | Friday, 14 Mar 2008 | Photo Gallery

The Torres
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Torres del Paine!!

CHILE | Thursday, 13 Mar 2008 | Views [834] | Comments [1]

We´re back!! Back from a 9 day hike around the Torres del Paine national park (had to do something about those handles). The Torres del Paine is a series of mountains formed by granite pushing it´s way through the earths crust, that´s what the brochure ... Read more >