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The idea behind this trip started around two years to eighteen months ago.James and I were discussing trips and South America entered the conversation.We were then looking into trips and had a brochure sent out.Never to do things by half's we flicked straight to the back of the book for the longest trip.Low and behold it was 26 weeks, however we did check a number of websites to make sure this was indeed the longest trip. We then looked at other options while in South America.I came up with Antarctica as an option. We pondered and then in typical style we went why not, it is only money and will already down that way!!! James then did more searching around on mountain options.We had a few ideas but then James found the challenge, an it was the highest mountain in South America, the highest mountain in the southern hemisphere and the highest mountain in the world outside of the Himalayas.It sounded like a big challenge and once again we went why not, it would be a shame not to do it.So the mountain part of our trip was then decided.We would 'walk' up Mt Aconcagua.I say walk up as you don't need any special mountaineering skills or experience just the ability to walk to an altitude of 6959m.That left us with 8-9days to fill in between Aconcagua and Antarctica.We then spoke to the travel company and decided on an 8 day hike around the Patagonia national parks to fill in our 9 day gap.That decided we then booked on to a overland tour with Dragoman which would take us from Santiago to Rio via Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and then the amazon.Not to stop there we decided that while in Quito (Ecuador) we may as well go to see the Galapagos islands on an 8day cruise.So that is the plan for the next 7months and how it came to happen.Hopefully if you do manage to follow these pages and if I manage to keep this updated (that is the biggest factor) than you can get an idea of the adventure we are having.Also please leave a message on the message section if you get the chance.Thanks
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