well that´s it, the end of my trip, 20 months and a half and it´s time to get back home. i tried keeping it quiet that i was coming home but donal left a message on the board suggesting that i was coming to the end of my trip, bless him, he wasn´t to know.rio was a great place to finish my trip even if it did rain for the first 3 days we were here. when the sun comes out it makes any place better but rio is stunning when the suns out. we walked ...

we went to the brazilian side of the falls the first day we were here and it was really overcast and rainning at times but still the falls were beautiful. the next day we went to the argentinian side when the sun was shinning and the sky was blue and we spent the day with our mouths wide open!! this side was out of this world we did a boat ride up to the falls as well where they drive you under the falls and you get soaked. up early tomorrow to get to the brazili...

had a magic time here. we both had our bithdays here, went to see a boca jr´s football match, dee shopped the feet off me, went to a polo match, went to see swan lake at the theater and ate steak and drank wine like it was going out of fashion. there is always something going on at this place and i could (if i could speak spanish better) really see myself staying in this city for a while, i think you´d have to spend a month here to really do the place...

just a quick stop here to see the moreno glacier. after seeing fox and franz joseph glaciers in new zealand i wasn´t to botherd about coming here but dee really wanted to. she was right to want to! this glacier is completely different to the ones in new zealand. it runs straight out into the water and pieces are always cracking and falling off with a big explosion of noise and a big wave of water after it hits. the town of el calafate was really nice as wel...

After an 18 hour bus ride puarto madryn was a welcome sight. as soon as we got there we hired a car and decided to go out to a small town on the coast so we can do a bit of whale spotting in the morning.  the whale spotting was out of this world!! we saw a load of right whales on the surface, some doing full breaches other just lifting their tails out, all were fantastic one even came so close it bumped into out boat, this thing was about 3 times the si...