21-26 October, 2024. We went from the best day of the trip to the worst day of the trip. Chris got very ill with vertigo. I won't go...

October 20, 2024, from the Itinerary: Drive 95 miles to the lodge at Jirira Hike Chituca which goes up 12244 up to 12500- 2 miles. San...

October 19, 2024 - From the itinerary: Las Apechetas We leave the mountain lodge to San Juan del Rosario.  Then we move to the valley of...

18 October 2024, from the itinerary: Drive 95.6 miles to the Chituca Lodge. We will stop at 3 lagoons, one of which will bring us very...

From the itinerary - October 17, 2024: Hike Yardangs. A circular 4 mile walk where we walk through an area of wetlands until we reach...

October 16, 2024 - From the itinerary: Leave Explora Atacama at 8am and drive to the Bolivian border which will take abut an hour. ...

October 15, 2024, from the itinerary: At 8am meet at the lobby to meet for your adjusted White Volcano experience. We will drive 40...

(Gentle Readers: It has taken me 5 days to repeatedly publish this post. WIFI is minimal in rural Bolivia, so the rest of the posts may...

13 October, 2024 from the Itinerary: drag yourself to the airport in time for your 7am flight on LATAM LA148. You will be met by an...

October 12, 2024- from the itinerary: catch the 12:30 Iberia flight to Santiago and sit on the plane for 13 hours. Stay at the airport...

October 11, 2024 and today we start on our adventure to Chile and Bolivia. It was freezing cold in Liphook this morning, I wore a down...

As I've told several followers, I had the impression that the land portion of our trip was "same animals, different island". That said,...

From the Itinerary: A 9am pickup for a half day city tour with guide Pedro Pastor. Then off to the airport for our return flight....

From the itinerary: April 11 - North Seymour Island. Afterwards, transfer to Baltra Airport for flight back to Quito. Transfer back to...

From the itinerary: Santiago Island: Egas Port / Espumilla Beach / Buccaneer Cove Egas Port is lava and black sand. After sunrise I saw...

From the itinerary: Fernandina Island: Espinosa Point / Isabela Island: Vicente Roca Point Up with the sun again. The volcano was...

From the itinerary: Isabela Island: Tagus Cove / Urbina Bay We were awake for the sunrise And the welcoming penguins! And ready for our...

From the itinerary: Santa Cruz Island: Black Turtle Cove / Bachas Beach Michelle left us this morning- we will miss her. Now we started...

From the Itinerary: Rabida / Santiago Island: Sullivan Bay Today was probably the best day of the trip. We woke up to see the red sands...

The title of this blog was our itinerary for today. We had lots of activities! After a soft sunrise breakfast was a fried egg and bacon....