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November 10, 2018July 16, 2019Emily Pippard1 Comment on Day One in Latin America! | Casco Viejo, Panama City

Day One in Latin America! | Casco Viejo, Panama City

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Who knew you can find little German villages in the middle of Argentina??. . I for one did not and it wasn’t until I arrived in Cordoba, Argentina’s second biggest city that I found out there was one not too far away (in Argentinian distances anyway) called La Cumbrecita. From Cordoba, we drove two or three hours into the middle of nowhere to find this German village. They were built when Germans migrated to Argentina after the war and are now seen as more of a tourist attraction. . Once there, we walked around and found some natural pools and this waterfall where we had a picnic of German beers, bread and cheese. Lovely day! 😁 🥨🧀🍻

Happy World Elephant Day from myself and my gal Malee! 🐘 . . I volunteered at ‘Elephants World’ sanctuary in Thailand back in 2013 on my first ever backpacking trip.🎒All the elephants were absolutely gorgeous but Malee was my fave - she was so lovely and calm. . . I returned to the sanctuary in 2015 but this time, just to visit. The place had changed a lot but still felt magical - and I still got to feed Malee, and from her smile here I think she might have enjoyed it as much as I did! . . They say elephants never forget... but I’ve definitely never forgotten her! Or my time at the sanctuary. Elephants deserve the world 🌏💕

Happy Friiidaaay!!! 🎉🙈🎉 Cheers to beers in Buenos Aires! My new found favourite city in the world. 🍻🌎 . . What’s everyone got planned for the weekend?? Got that Friday feeling??🍾🥂🕺🏻

This was the UNREAL sunset we watched from base camp before we climbed Mount Chachani (see last post!) 🗻 It was soooo special - being surrounded by snow capped mountains, clouds, listening to complete silence, watching these vivid colours cross the sky. Literally HOURS from civilisation, not another soul around. 💖🧡💙 . .Can you spot the volcano erupting far in the far distance? 🌋. . .Link in bio for blog post 📝

Base camp! ⛺️ Home for the ‘night’ before getting up at 1am to try and summit Mount Chachani at 6,075m. It was a very secluded campsite- at a very unforgiving altitude of 4900m, my small group of five were the only people around, wherever you looked - weirdly we couldn’t even any see any animals or birds!! (Perhaps because of the altitude and temperature?🤷🏻‍♀️). . All we did here was watch the INCREDIBLE sunset and then try to go to sleep once it was got dark around 7pm... we couldn’t do much else as it was difficult to walk around anywhere without getting really breathless, and we figured we should save our energy for the climb! 🥾 . Link in bio if you want to read more about this adventure! One of the best/ worst experiences of my South America trip/ life 🏔❄️💕 . (P.s. Mine was the little green tent!)💚⛺️

New blog post! 🥳 This one is about my biggest achievement of my South America trip - summitting my first 6000m+ mountain.🏔 . Honestly it was the hardest thing that I have ever attempted, both physically and mentally. I cried with exhaustion when I reached the summit, and cried even more when I reached the bottom- with relief! . If you fancy having a read of my dramatic account, the link is in my bio. 🙏🏼(And if you don’t, fair enough but there are some great sunset snaps in there too!!) 👀🥾❄️

Buenos Aires 🌟 Within days it quickly became my favourite city in the world. It’s amazing- full of character, history and colour. If I could move anywhere tomorrow, it would be here! 🌎

Don’t listen to anyone telling you to not chase waterfalls 💦🎼 (especially not the longest waterfall in the world that crosses borders from Brazil to Argentina) 🌈 . Amazingly last week, an interviewer mentioned that they had looked me up and found my blog- and that they were really impressed with it! I was well happy!! And then I remembered my most recent article had been ranting about anti-travelling/ gap year recruiters haha 😳😂😂 He was probably scared of me kicking off 🙈 . Link in bio if you fancy a read! 📝

Looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! 🌈 This was taken at the Iguazu Falls, the largest waterfall system in the world, which borders both Brazil and Argentina. 💦. . It’s definitely worth taking a day to explore the waterfall from each side/ country because they are both spectacular in their own right- but I think I liked the Argentinian side just ever so slightly more! . . Just because of all of the rainbows we found along the way- I have never seen so many in my life! All as clear and bright as this one. 😍🌈

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