1st April 2008 Tuesday: One unexpected highlight of visiting the Torre del Paine National Park was that we actually got to hold a piece of a glacier! And that glacier is the Glacier Grey. Glacier Grey is in the south end of the Southern Patagonia Ice...
Topics: Chile, Patagonia

29 March 2008: The Magellanic Penguin is the most common and numerous penguin species found in South America. The size of its population is estimated to be a total of 1.5 million couples. 2500 couples can be found in Seno Otway which we visited...
Topics: Chile, Patagonia

27 March 2008: After a long flight from Mexico to Santiago de Chile, we then flew on the same day from Santiago, the capital of Chile, down south to Punta Arenas. Punta Arenas is by the Strait of Magellan, in Brunswich peninsula, and was once called...
Topics: Chile, Patagonia

We already miss being world travelers. After nearly a year of traveling around the globe, we are back! 32 flights, 14 countries and a lifetime of memories.These are the countries we went, in chronological order: Macau, Hong Kong, Borneo (Malaysia),...
Topics: Thoughts

22 June 2008 Sunday: Getting to Galapagos was an adventure on its own. First of all we had to book flights from Guayaquil to Galapagos. There are two companies you can fly with: the military-linked company Tame and the private Aerogal. Aerogal...
Topics: Galapagos