South America

This week’s Polaroid features an accordion player at the Feria de Mataderos, a craft market and street fair in Buenos Aires that embraces the country’s gaucho culture.

Yes, laptops can get altitude sickness, and malfunction! We tell you from what altitude on you have to be careful, and how you can prevent your hard drive crashing when traveling in high altitudes.

Our Hotel Tip of the Week series offers accommodation tips from around the world. All are places where we have stayed in and personally recommend. This week: Casa Kreyenberg in Valparaiso, Chile.

Visiting the Nahuel Huapi National Park with its mighty Mount Tronador and the unique Black Glacier was one of our highlights in Argentina!

Cafes con piernas – literally coffees with legs – are all over Santiago de Chile! Find out more about this quirky, unique kind of coffee shop.

Santiago’s street art scene make for a creative, intelligent vibe throughout the city.

This week’s Polaroid features the rare phenomenon of black ice, which we saw at the Ventisquero Negro glacier near Bariloche in Argentina.

This week’s Polaroid features one of the many sea lions we ‘met’ in Valdivia, a small town in Southern Chile, this week! Check out this cheeky sea lion attack!

We spent this last week exploring the steep hills of Valparaiso, a charming bohemian port town in Chile that is famous for its street art and colorful houses.

If you follow us on Facebook, you already know that we keep getting surprised by Santiago’s subway! This week’s Polaroid depicts a rare, calm moment in the metro.