Andalusia 🇪🇸
Jon
20/10/2019
Top tip…. If you want to visit the Alhambra, one of the finest palaces in Europe, book your tickets at least two months in advance. On the website it advises you to
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Brazil’s Costa Verde 🇧🇷
Jon
25/05/2019
Brazil’s Costa Verde stretches from Rio de Janeiro, around the coast to the city of São Paulo. It is a stunning, verdant coastline, with jungle and and Brazil’s Atlantic Rainforest reaching the
Iguaçu (Iguazu) Falls 🇧🇷 🇦🇷
Jon
18/05/2019
The name, “Iguaçu” in Brazil and Iguazú in Argentina, comes from the Guarani words “y“, meaning “water”, and “ûasú“, meaning “big”. Literally “Big Water”. Not quite as poetic as Mosi-oa-Tunya the name
Life as a Gaucho 🇺🇾
Jon
16/05/2019
The Estancia Panagea is a working cattle ranch, located deep in the Uruguayan countryside and miles from anywhere. It is a 970 hectare working ranch about 40 km northwest of Tacuarembó with 1,100 cattle, 1,800 sheep and 74 horses.
Our home for three days to experience life as a gaucho…
Colonia del Sacramento 🇺🇾
Jon
13/05/2019
Uruguay, or more specifically Colonia del Sacramento, is just across the Rio de la Plata from Buenos Aries. When I say ‘just across’, the River Plate is some 50km wide at this
Buenos Aires 🇦🇷
Jon
12/05/2019
Internal flights in Argentina are, for some reason, particularly strict about the weight of your checked in bags. Packing up, and leaving our hotel in Salta therefore, was a frenetic exercise in
From Bolivia to Argentina 🇧🇴 🇨🇱 🇦🇷
Jon
07/05/2019
Once over the border and back into Chile it was all downhill. Literally. From the heights of the High Altiplano we dropped down to a mere 2,400m, the altitude at which San
The Salar de Uyuni and the High Altiplano 🇧🇴
Jon
04/05/2019
The journey from Potosi took us through some dramatic Andean scenery, mountainsides becoming increasingly barren and the rocks changing colour through brown and black and red due to the mineral deposits. We
