We were in Ancud after a trip from Puerto Montt. The day was overcast and we were not really eager to continue our journey. We had rented a car and we were going to use it to...]]>We were in Ancud after a trip from Puerto Montt. The day was overcast and we were not really eager to continue our journey. We had rented a car and we were going to use it to...]]>
The thought of not reaching the resevoir was such a disappointing one that I knew I had to plough on. At km 11 I had a mini break-down, my legs were screaming for me to stop, my whole body in pain and I felt as though all the energy had been sucked ou...]]>
Cooking together tomato and chicken, I attempt to make space for it among the medley of flavours that stains the moist air of Saket, a residential neighborhood in southern Delhi. I couldn't swea...]]>
The still air carries the smell of New Delhi in the summer: The spices of the street food, the sweat of the people, the dregs of the city sneakily abandoned in every corner, with minimum discretion....]]>
Late January, summer in the southern hemisphere. Heat and a single idea: Lets walk Lake General Carrera, Patagonia, the largest lake in Chile which is situated between Chile and Argentina where it is known as Lago Buenos Aires. So in the blink of an eye we are a...]]>
Finally the feeling was too strong and my best mate Kineret convinced me to find a guiding job in the deep south.
Tierra Patagonia is the hotel I now guide for here in Parque Nacional Torres Del Paine, a world Unesc...]]>
"Where are you?" asked my favourite person in the world, my uncle Mike in England. "You live near Antarctica now?" asked my friends and family down under in the land of kangaroos.
This place boas...]]>
The alarm clock rings at 3:30 AM. We are camping at San Pedro, in the Atacama Desert, the driest of the world. We wake up early in the morning for a trip of almost 100 kilometres that will take us to the Tatio Geysers, one of the highest locate...]]>
Apart from the natural beauty and abundant wildlife that can be found in the Torres del Paine National Park, the wind plays a crucial role here, both good and bad. The good, in this region near the end of the world, is that the weather changes al...]]>
A few days ago I visited one of the most beautiful and unique parts of northern Patagonia, Chile. The place I am going to write about is truly one of the most unexplored by tourists, there are no roads that lead to this place and can only be reache...]]>
The classical civilisations have left important in-prints throughout Greece, Italy and the Mediterranean. The question that arises is: where today do you go to experience the world as it once was? The museums a...]]>
The surprises of the mountains
By Aike Parvex Pichaida
In early 2010 I worked as an expedition guide and logistics commander for geothermal geologists studying geothermal energy in the Maule Reg...]]>
Friends of mine had moved to Toronto, I had a holiday due and thought why not go to visit them, they had told me the city was interesting with plenty to do and during the summer with the hot da...]]>
I was born in Germany, just outside of Frankfurt. My parents are Chilean, both of them are of European descent, my father's side from England, my mother Germany.
I was a child when I moved to Mexico with my family. My first memory is traveling by car and being mesmerised by the neon signs as they changed colours. Like all my memories of Mexico it is colour tha...]]>
"My hair is getting messy and going frizzy", my friend said as we walked towards the Torres del Paine in the Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia, Chile.
The wind that day in March was intense, ...]]>
I wanted to cross the Andes Mountains by coach. I felt that having flown over them on several occasions, and having seen them in different seasonal states, it was time to get a view of these majestic mountains fro...]]>
In the summer of 2011, just before my 70th birthday, we went up the Norwegian coast on a ferry through the fjords and past North Ca...]]>
For a European, walking along the shore with the view of the Strait of Magellan it must mean that I am travelling again as my mind wanders back to the history books from school lessons. Along with the Egyptian p...]]>
During the winter in this part of the world (May to September), the influx of tourists is low, the days are short and cold, which does not mean it is closed for the adventurous. Despite low temperature...]]>
They will tell you that Dubrovnik is beautiful they will tell you that you must see it and I will tell you the same, it is not to be missed.
Perhaps the most striking feature of Dubrovnik is its old town surrounded by...]]>
When I first visited Antarctica on an Argentine supply ship in 1986, I knew little about the continent. Mostly I imagined that it was a place where explorers had suffered and thought that it was hug...]]>
A blank page lays before me. A pad of paper. It is a virtual space, but the fact remains that it is, empty. An invitation: to fill it with your word, what I love, what it represents to me. It seems easy: think, write and paper becomes ma...]]>
I left Poland over 10 years ago, before we joined the European Union, I had friends that had already moved over to the UK and I felt that there were more opportunities for me over there. I had the basics of English, but I wor...]]>
It was January 2008. My best friend, Karla and I had decided that we needed to reconnect, having drifted apart since we had started university. We had gone our own seperate ways, catching up may...]]>
Within my close circle of friends there is an in joke with regards to my traveling. I’m not sure where it came from, or which of them started it, but there is a phrase they use to describe my adventures – movie mo...]]>
An archaeological wonder: Pompeii, Italy It is a journey that makes great day trip, if you are staying in Rome. We caught a train from the central train station to...]]>
My first visit to Romania was an unforgettable experience. It was a country that impressed and surprised me in many ways. I left with some great memorie...]]>
I could not believe how isolated the place I was going to live was. It was 1942 when I made the decision. I had met my husband while on a holiday, in the south of Chile, we met, we maintained contact by...]]>We had fun in the country, we liked to explore the forests in the area and swim in the river Maule in whose waters all of us learnt to swim. As we swam in the rive...]]>
I grew up in Lima, Peru and my musical influences came ...]]>
I know a 11 year old boy who had forced his parents to spend a Sunday in Monteriggioni, near Siena, Italy ju...]]>
We left the capital, Ulan Bator, and despite the discomfort of the transport one became distracted by the landscapes. Mongolia is a no...]]>
On New Year ...]]>
That is the light that keeps me forever on the alert. The light that compels me to walk for hours just to lie in sometimes patient, often fretful wai...]]>
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The Serengeti and Ngorongoro parks are marvellous! Serengeti means in Masai language “infinite plains” and they continue as far as the eye ca...]]>