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 | Feb 16, 2015 | Around the world
I’ve got a confession to make: I’m a bit of scaredy cat. I’m afraid of flying (turbulence has me gripping the handrests with white knuckles), horse riding, being on boats, and generally going fast on anything I don’t have total control over....
by Sarah Duff | Feb 6, 2015 | Around the world, Colombia, South America
Sweat ran in thick rivulets down my back, soaking through to my heavy backpack. My face felt as hot as a pizza oven. My thighs burned and my dodgy knees were aching. My breath came out as an unpleasant sounding rasp. I was less than two hours into a four-day trek...
by Sarah Duff | Feb 6, 2015 | Around the world, Conservation, Ecuador, South America
I have a special place in my heart for cloud forests. There’s something undeniably magical about being in a world of trees, where every view is of hills of green wrapped in thick bands of mist, and every piece of moss is covered in jewel-like droplets of water....
by Sarah Duff | Jan 28, 2015 | Around the world, Ecuador, South America
“No area on Earth of comparable size has inspired more fundamental changes in Man’s perspective of himself and his environment” said ornithologist Robert Bowman of the Galápagos Islands, which he surveyed for UNESCO in 1957. Humans first stepped...
by Sarah Duff | Jan 23, 2015 | Around the world, Peru, South America
Photos of famous sights can be misleading. The Pyramids of Giza look like they’re in the middle of the desert, surrounded by empty horizons of sand, while they’re actually on the edge of the dirty, chaotic city, a Pizza Hut and KFC just across the road....
