Julie Warner Travel Plans

25/02/2025

Day 18-19 we were at Sea making our way to Antarctica passing many icebergs. We also passed Elephant Island (a significant part of the Shackleton story) as it was getting dark.

25/02/2025

Day 16-17 were spent circumnavigating South Georgia with 3 wet landings, 2 zodiac trips & we cruised close by 2 days in the ship.

16/02/2025

Day 15, After 2 days at sea we reached South Georgia & the South Sandwich (SGSSI) Islands where we went ashore at Grytviken, a former whaling station.

We saw our first King Penguins and fur seals here, along with the graves of Henry Shackleton & his 2nd in command Frank Wild.

12/02/2025

Day 12 Falkland Islands, Stanley: A quick snapshot of the town.

12/02/2025

Day 12 - Falkland Islands, Stanley: Nature walk first and then a look around the town. Lots of birdlife including Magellanic & King penguins, Magellanic Oystercatchers, Rock shags & pretty native flora.

10/02/2025

Day 11, 2nd Landing - West Island with population 2 and more rockhopper penguins & albatross.

10/02/2025

Day 11 - After a day at sea we had sight of the Falkland Islands and we had our first landing on New Island with its 6 residents where we saw a lot of rockhopper penguins, albatross & their cute babies & shags.

10/02/2025

Day 10 - Ushuaia, ready for the main adventure to begin! Boarding the boat here for the next 17 days.

07/02/2025

Day 7-9 we travelled to Buenos Aires to explore a little before our Antarctic Cruise begins. It was lovely to reacquaint ourselves with this beautiful city.

07/02/2025

Day 5 - Uyuni Salt Flat tour, Day 3. Today was a 5am start, pretty chilly! We drove cross country to view some geysers, then made a trip across the Chile border to drop a few people there to end their tour with us. Then it was a beautiful drive through some wetlands with so many llamas, then another stunning area of rock formations before our journey back to Uyuni.

06/02/2025

Very behind on trip posts as have not had proper Wi-Fi whilst in Antarctica. I will slowly catch up on the rest of our trip. Day 4 - Uyuni Salt Flats Tour, Day 2
Today we changed to desert landscapes, volcanoes, rock formations, lagoons & so many flamingoes, just stunning!

17/01/2025

Day 3, Uyuni Salt Flats & Surrounds tour begins. We were so lucky to have a layer of water on the salt flats giving us the stunning reflections. We started at the Train graveyard, then drove across a small portion of the flats & it just went as far as the eye could see in every direction for a number of hours - just spectacular.

17/01/2025

La Paz day 2 was spent exploring more areas using the cable car network. Then, on an overnight bus to Uyuni to start our 3 day salt flat & surrounds tour.

11/01/2025

After a 28 hour travel day with 3 flights (Sydney to Santiago, Chile, the on to Lima, Peru & final destination La Paz, Bolivia) & 1 long layover in Lima, we made it to our La Paz hotel around 5:30am. Luckily we slept well on all flights & at Lima airport so we had a few hours sleep then went exploring. We were in La Paz 13 years ago & a few things have changed. There's more street art for one and, there is a new transport system, the "Mi Teleférico'
Mass transportation system. Its an above ground cable car, metro system. Its really amazing & a great way to minimise the impact of the high altitude by reducing our walking a little as we landed right in La Paz's 3,600 feet from sea level!
It was such a great way to get around the city, with awesome views.
Safe travels if you have trips planned.

31/12/2024

Happy New Year, I look forward to sharing more travel adventures with you in 2025. Do you have any travels planned this year?

23/12/2024

14/10/2024

Day 10, last day before we fly home tonight. We used the train & headed out to visit the Marakina Shoe Museum featuring former First Lady Imelda Marcos's shoe collection (749 pairs as of 2020). We then found our way to the ferry which cruised past the Malacañang Palace, the official residence and office of the president of the Philippines (no photos allowed).

Everywhere we went they had Christmas decorations up & were playing Christmas songs (so early!)
Now it's time to head home. We saw a lot in our 10 days with heaps more left to explore.

14/10/2024

Day 9 we woke up with views of the Rice terraces in Batad from our guest house & then trekked out to where our jeepney met us. Then it was a short drive back to our main van & driver for the 9 hour drive back to Manila. Less traffick being Sunday but still busy as we reached the outskirts of the city, which goes on forever. Beautiful scenery along the way, plenty of rice fields, tropical vegetation and small towns.