Today we took a nice boat trip down ´Ultima Esperanza Sound´. This translates to ´Last Hope Sound´ which is a large valley carved out by Glacial action a long time ago not far from our current residence of Puerto Nateles. We boarded our boat and off we went down the sound, after a few hours of sailing past beautiful landscapes we arrived at a colony of Cormorant birds which look a bit like small Penguins but all perching rather precariously on the almost ver...

Off Dave and Emily trotted to see some penguins. It was a bit of a mission to get there - a 3.5k walk, then 2 hour ferry ride, but 100% worth it. The whole of Isla Magdelena is completely covered with over 150 000 penguins. Mums, dads, teenagers and babies and all amazingly cute. The Magellan penguins swim all the way down from their beaches in Brazil, past Argentina and through the straight to the barren island every September. Why? Because this far south has s...

Punta Arenas is our most Southern destination on our travels, and what we have been aiming for since we landed in Mexico last August. Located at the bottom of the world it is the most southerly part of mainland America with only some rugged landscapes and large islands to the south that run to the southern tip of the continent, and then only the cold dangerous ocean to Antartica and the South Pole. The town is the largest in the entire Patagonian region, but onl...

From the start we thought it might be a long shot getting all the way down south of the Americas, due to time and money but we made the commitment and booked a flight from Santiago down to Punta Arenas in Patagonia. And here we are flying across the wild and desolate lands of Patagonia, where the mainland of the Americas starts to split up and become a haunting mix of countless mountains, glaciers, islands and rugged wastelands. You cannot get a bus directly th...

So the time came to say farewell to our lovely b&b and owners in Vicuña and head back on the road in our quest to go south. A 7 hour bus from Vicuña to the capital of Santiago was on the cards, and this one is very likely to be our last long distance bus journey of our trip, two very happy travellers there will be if no more long bus trips are required! On we jumped onto a nice comfortable Chilean bus and we headed out of the valley to the Pacific coast an...