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 given to the
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. From he heights of the High Altiplano we dropped down to a mere 2,400m, the altitude at which San Pedro
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
Potosí 🇧🇴
In 1544, Diego Huallpa, a local Inca was out searching for an escaped llama when he stopped to build a fire in the shadow of a mountain. In Quechua the name of
