Tamlyns on Tour
The unexpected surprise of Chile
Making a last minute decision to travel up north through Chile took us by surprise, a lovely surprise as it turned out! Unfortunately, our four-hour bus journey over the Andes, from Argentina, was shrouded in fog. The anticipated mountain views were therefore...
Autumn in the Argentine Lakes
As the bus neared San Martin de los Andes, a town in the north west of Patagonia, we were blessed with this fat rainbow guiding the way. Getting off the bus, we were greeted with pouring rain! Taxi! Thankfully, our apartment was super cosy and reminiscent of an alpine...
The Gateway of Puerto Madryn
The first of many bus journeys begins! Having first caught a bus from Puerto Pirámides on the Valdes Peninsula to Puerto Madryn, we had a day to organise our onward travel plans. This was to be our gateway between the Peninsula and wherever we decided to go next!...
Peaceful, paradise, picture-postcard: Puerto Pirámides
Having read about the extremely short season for watching orcas hunt in a unique manner, on the Valdes Peninsula, Patagonia, we’d debated whether it was worth the cost/time of flying down south. Realising that nature moments such as this are one of our favourite...
Touring the Tigre Delta
Leaving the hustle and bustle of Buenos Aires (BsAs) behind us (but still carrying jet lag with us!), we headed just an hour north of the city to Tigres - so named by the big cats that used to roam the area. The town was bigger than we expected, and we luxuriated in...
Ciao New Zealand…Hola Argentina!
The day has come to leave New Zealand (and for Jake to get a hair cut!!). We’re all feeling mixed emotions: a sense of excitement and anticipation about Argentina, tinged with apprehension about a new country, culture and language. In addition, we’ve felt at home in...
Subtropical Northland
Haere Mai! Welcome to subtropical Northland, the birthplace of New Zealand and where ancient pohutukawa trees (more on these later) and giant Kauri trees merge with white sandy beaches and gorgeous hidden coves. Northland is the place where Maori and Europeans first...
The Coromandel Peninsula
Our road trip from the Bay of Plenty up the Coromandel. We met a couple in Pukehina who told us about ‘Beach Hop’, a 50s/60s nostalgia event taking place at various places on the Peninsula whilst we would be there, so exciting! We made a decision based on this to stop...
Shhhh, don’t tell anyone about Pukahina!
We’d had the Bay of Plenty on our must-visit list, because of the active marine volcano (Whaakari or White Island, named by Cook for its permanent shroud of mist and steam) that lies 50km offshore from the township of Whakatane. Ideally, we would’ve loved to have...
Happy at Hobbiton!
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. Do you recognise...
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