Julie Warner Travel Plans

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.

12/10/2024

Day 8 was spent exploring the rice terraces, two of which are Unesco World Heritage listed (Batad & Bangaan). We were lucky to have nice sunny viewing for the morning but showers came in as we were finishing a walk in the terraces & has settled for the evening. Stunning scenery & amazing to hear how the rice growing works here. It's all organic & all grown for personal consumption as apparently none is exported from the Philippines.

11/10/2024

A 9.5 hour driving day today, heading north from Manila to the rice terraces around Banaue & Batad. It's a bit wet tonight, fingers crossed no rain in the morning as we explore this area & walk around the terraces.

10/10/2024

Day 6, a day exploring Cebu with a few rain interruptions, which kept the humidity & temperature down a little.

10/10/2024

Day 5, a 4:30am pick up to start our day trip to Bohol Island. We visited The Chocolate Hills area, a butterfly & sugar glider sanctuary and we saw Tarsier monkeys (smallest primates), had a river cruise lunch & finished the day visiting The Blood Compact memorial and the very well done Mirror of the World & Botanical Gardens.

09/10/2024

Day 4, a travel day today heading to Cebu. A quick look at a small wetland area on Boracay, then taxi (Grab actually, the Uber equivalent here) boat, plane to Cebu & another Grab car where we asked to go to our hotel via Mactan Shrine as it was not too far from the airport. A quick stop at the Shrine then onto our hotel in the city, ready for a 4:30am pick up 😥