My last day in South America today. Has been just over 3 months now and seems strange that I´ll be heading home soon. Got the little matter of New Zealand, Oz and Hong Kong before that though and looking forward to catching up with quite a few people. Am also glad to get out of my dorm. The hostel is excellent and I pre-booked it. However, my dorm happens to have not just the worst snorer I`ve encountered on the whole trip but also the 2nd worst! Was har...

I flew up to Bariloche with the military airline (who use serving military pilots). Had one of the scariest landings I´ve ever had - was quite a lot of turbulance and also the pilots went low early and continued fast until the last minute. I think they just know what the plane can do but certainly felt different to your normal comercial airliner landing. Bariloche is in the "Lake district" here and I did very little apart from chill out/read. Did...

Back to Argentina... I´ve been in El Calefate and the main thing here is the big glacier 80Km down the road (Moreno). It is a massive glacier that is slowly sliding into a lake at the bottom and bits break off every few minutes or so. Very big and very spectacular. Apart from viewing it from infront I also got to go on a short boat ride and do some hiking on the ice for an hour and a half. All very exciting and I managed not to fall down a hole in the ice ...

Torrs Del Paine national park - the "towers of pain..." Most people seem to hike here for about 5 days but I did at least manage to spend one night in the park. I had a tough 7 hours of hiking up to the towers and back to one of the refugios (small huts/hostles that you can sleep in). It was all pretty tiring but I enjoyed it a lot and the view of the towers from the look-out point was amazing. I was lucky with the weather because last night adn today ...

"The end of the World..." I´m at the Southern tip of South America. More Southerly than New Zealand or Austrailia and in fact the most Southern town in the World. Below is only Antartica. The town is pretty isolated and has a good "feel" to it. It reminds me of Norway down here with the rugged natural landscape and the fresh cool wind. I checked into a great hostel (freestyle) and met quite a lot of people. I did 2 main excursions -...