CHILE | Friday, 28 Mar 2014 | Views [606]
Simply the most beautiful place on earth. Immense mountains, wild landscapes and weather, surrounded by views on all sides which just make you fill up with happiness. Sheer towers, bristling ice glaciers, lakes of every colour blue - mountain spectaculousness.... Read more >
Tags: torres del paine, trekking
NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 19 Mar 2014 | Views [1592]
We ended our trip to New Zealand with two of the country's classic "Great Walks" - the Routeburn (3 days) and Milford Sound (4 days) treks. These are well maintained tracks with refuges (mountain lodges) to stay in at night.
Being once again blessed ... Read more >
Tags: milford sound, routeburn, trekking
NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 14 Jan 2014 | Views [368]
Not for nothing is this said to be one of New Zealand's most spectacular Great Walks. The walk takes a full-on day to complete, rising up from the scrub past steaming fumeroles, active volcanoes, desert-like plains, brilliant blue and green lakes and ... Read more >
Tags: trekking
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 29 Dec 2013 | Views [1379]
The Blue Mountains - never heard of them but so glad we came. Two hours out of Sydney is a high sandstone plateau, carved into canyons and cliffs by rivers which now tumble thousands of feet over the edges. Covered with trees and plants only ever seen ... Read more >
Tags: blue mountains, trekking