wanderlust and other stories: January Blues ... yeah right!

January 2012 has been a blast! What a way to start 2012. Now, although I didn’t conform and have the January blues this year, I realised the other day that January 2012 for me has inadvertently been very active and pretty healthy … bordering on the classic January detox. (Minus giving up alcohol – I’ve been in Argentina and Chile for heaven’s sake and not drinking the gorgeous vino tinto would be ridiculous!!)

Firstly I was in the eco yoga park living on vegetables, meditation and yoga … very zen! And then we headed off on a trip covering the Lake District of Argentina, Patagonia and South Chile doing lots of outdoorsy things like trekking and camping – check out the map above for the places that I visited.(View Full Size Travel Map at Travellerspoint)

It was such a great trip. I have seen spectacular scenery of snow capped mountains and ice blue lakes; I have seen penguins and sea lions and lots of other wildlife that I don’t know the name of! I have been so far south that if I continued further I would have ended up in Antarctica; I have camped, I have trekked, I have gone from 40 degrees to 4 in the space of 48hours, I have gone from flip flops to long socks, I have gone from drinking cold beer to hot chocolate, I have scaled a rock face – that wasn’t planned actually … we were pretty lost at the time … and I’ve jumped into a glacial lake … another activity that wasn’t necessarily thought through either!

Oh and to do all of this and cover a huge area (approx 3500 miles!) in a short space of time meant that I spent about 6 days on a bus in total! This has been classic travelling and after spending my first few months of the trip in one or two places it was great to quite literally get on the road.

So here are a selection of the pictures… which, let’s face it are the most interesting parts of blogs!