by Sarah Duff | Mar 1, 2015 | Argentina, Around the world, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, South America
The second part of this year-long around-the-world trip (after a three-month stint in the USA), was South America, a continent I had never visited. It had always seemed so far from South Africa, so I felt like a normal-length two-week trip would never cut it. I saved...
by Sarah Duff | Nov 18, 2014 | Around the world, Chile, desert, South America
“This is where all life came from”. The Chilean version of David Attenborough, our guide Gonzalez Cruz, peered into a hole the size of a truck tyre, out of which spewed forth boiling sulfuric steam. I assumed he wasn’t referring to the eggs some...
by Sarah Duff | Oct 24, 2014 | Argentina, Around the world, Chile, South America
For years before I even knew exactly where it was, the word Patagonia conjured up a magical idea of the unknown, the untouched, the wild. When I found it on a map it seemed so remote to be the kind of place I thought I’d never get to. It was my fantasy travel...
