Chile Archives - Duff's Suitcase /south-america/chile-south-america/ Mon, 02 Mar 2015 21:10:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Four months of South America in photos /four-months-of-south-america-in-photos/ /four-months-of-south-america-in-photos/#respond Sun, 01 Mar 2015 19:57:02 +0000 /?p=4060 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 up South America for a time when I […]

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]]> /four-months-of-south-america-in-photos/feed/ 0 Life on the edge in the Atacama Desert /life-on-the-edge-in-the-atacama-desert/ /life-on-the-edge-in-the-atacama-desert/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:50:23 +0000 /?p=3738 “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 other guides were boiling in the ferociously bubbling water a few […]

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]]> /life-on-the-edge-in-the-atacama-desert/feed/ 2 In Patagonia /patagonia/ /patagonia/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:55:44 +0000 /?p=3673 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 destination – […]

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