Craig and Tanja on Career Break!

This blog is a travel diary for our great 2007 adventure exploring Latin America. We travelled through Brasil, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia for 8 months and are now back in Europe visiting friends in Greece, France, the UK and Germany before emmigrating to Australia at the end of November 2007. Stay in touch and let us hear your news from home. Lots of love, Tanja and Craigo xox tanja.engel@gmail.com craigmillis@hotmail.com

Thursday, March 08, 2007

Los Glaciares National Park - our first big trek!


Our first big trekking adventure was absolutely fantastic! 5 days of walking in the national park and 4 nights in a tent with temperatures dropping to zero in the night! Great! Ever tried washing dishes in a glacial lake??? You only have time for about 3 items until your fingers go numb. Quite a challenge! But the water tastes amazing (before washing dishes!).

We had an amazing time and the mountains are stunning. This is us in front of the Cerro Torre - very proud indeed!
Massive birds and beautiful blue skies, emerald green glacier lakes and wonderful old forests with little streams which you can drink delicious water from... Absolutely wonderful. The highest moutain Fitz Roy is only 3500m but a sheer granite face, vertical like a sharp tooth covered in snow on the top and surrounded by glacier ice at the bottom. A beauty!

This is just a quick one to let you know we made it back safely.

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