All Our Posts from #offaroundtheworld

Andalusia 🇪🇸
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

Brazil’s Costa Verde 🇧🇷
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 🇧🇷 🇦🇷
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 🇺🇾
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 🇺🇾
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 🇦🇷
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 🇧🇴 🇨🇱 🇦🇷
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 🇧🇴
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
