Travellers Tales

The walking trail is a metre wide space where the biggest and most dangerous boulders have been removed. After stumbling for half an hour, taking tortuous, slippery steps and trying not to sprain an ankle, it comes as a bit of a shock that this rocky terrain is both take-off and landing strip for the

When Captain Cook first dropped anchor on the southern edge of this tiny volcanic speck in the Southern Antarctic Ocean, he called it Desolation Island. Mention the name Kerguelen to most people and you will be met with a blank stare; for few have heard of the place and even fewer have seen it. But

At the southern end of Sun Island, on Lake Titicaca, is a sacred place, used by the local Andean Indians and their Kallawuaya for rituals and offerings to Pachamama, the Earth Mother. The Kallawuaya is a fortune teller, or native doctor of the Andean Altiplano; and this one is a small man, dressed inconspicuously in

The Alta Puna, Altiplano, or high plateau, lies at an altitude of over 4,000 metres to the east of San Pedro de Atacama, in the remote border area between Northern Chile, Bolivia and Argentina. It is a landscape of visual feasts created by extreme conditions; of volcanoes, salt fields and shallow lakes; where high winds,