South America 2011 Preview

In less than one week we will be on a flight to Santiago to begin our tour of five South American countries. Needless to say, we are really excited about this part of our journey as neither of us has ever been to the continent.  We plan to spend over a month each in Chile and Argentina, about three weeks in Bolivia and Peru and ten days in Uruguay. That’s the rough plan, anyway. A few things are confirmed, however and we just wanted to quickly share them with you.

We will be:

• Trekking for a week in Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park

• Hiking the Inca Trail to reach Machu Picchu in Peru

• Attending a fabulous friend’s wedding in Buenos Aires

• Spending a couple of weeks (at least) in Chile’s lakes district and climbing Volcan Villarica in Pucon

• Visiting Bariloche, Mendoza, Cordoba, Iguazu Falls, Salta as well as several other smaller towns in Argentina

• Taking a drive on the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, the world’s largest salt lake

• Exploring Northern Chile

• Checking out a number of other cities, towns and activities - the unplanned experiences are always the best!

As always, we’ll be posting frequently with photos and stories from the road so you can get current information from each area and go exploring with us. Don’t forget to subscribe to our blog via your reader or email. It’s completely free and you’ll receive only our posts (no spam or junk mail).

If any of our readers are going to be around while we're in South America, we'd love to catch up. Drop us a line!

See you across the Pacific!