Dipping a toe into Patagonia

Patagonia is not for the faint of heart. Interminable bus journeys, inhospitable terrain, bone-chilling temperatures and sky high prices mean that many travellers skip it all together. I was planning on going, I really was, but when I met traveller after traveller heading down there with sleeping bags and tents as basic necessities, four week…

Walking in the steps of Incas

Sleep deprived and with my legs feeling like lead, I hobbled up to the Sun Gate – a walled platform high up in the mountains. I  peered through a gap in the bricks to catch my first glimpse of the iconic view that adorns almost every guidebook of South America. I’d been walking for four…