There’s nothing more miserable than winter. Actually, there is. Winter in the UK. When it’s raining and cold and grey and everyone’s grumpy. Bah humbug, indeed.
So what if we told you there was a way to escape the winter months? Not just for a few weeks, oh no. We can get you a round the world ticket that’s valid for 12 months, so you could enjoy a whole year of summery goodness, my friend.
Yep, with a bit of careful planning, and a helping hand from our Travel Experts, eternal sunshine could all be yours.
So pack your sunnies and slap on the sun cream – we’re going to show you just how you can enjoy 12 months of summer lovin’.
Patagonia, the sprawling region at the bottom of South America shared between Argentina and Chile, is many things. It is beautiful. It is adventurous. It is vast. And it’s all there waiting to be discovered.
Travelling overland through Patagonia is an insight into the region in itself. A drive down Argentina’s Ruta Nacional 40, will take you down long streches of huge, empty roads, past wild, barren countryside and awe-inspiring nature. This is a glimpse at the real South America.
But how should you whittle down what to do when you’re there? Let’s give Patagonia a big High Five, and we’ll give you a few ideas.
Last week, I sent out the warning. Llamas are (possibly) eating the internet. So I set you a task, to round them up using the hashtag #onemorellama on Twitter and Instagram, or simply lock them down on our Facebook Timeline.
@EmmaJPRCo: @STATravel_UK #onemorellama Trekking with Llamas in #Gstaad, Switzerland pic.twitter.com/W37jsYRS And then Emma sent another…
Now, I’ll be the first to admit that some of these llamas look mighty alpaca-ry — and one of them is quite frankly bizarre — but I don’t pick the karma for our llama, so it’s really no drama.
So slip on your pyjamas, pick up your iguanas, and walk with me through the electric meadow of our dear little llamas. Continue reading →
A man walks into a pub in Glasgow with his video camera, and he says to his friend, where shall we go? And she says, “South America?” And he says, “Peru!” And they finish their drinks and totter off to the airport.
That’s (almost) exactly what happened to young film maker, Fraser Gibb, and his friend Kirsty. When Fraser returned, he locked himself in his editing suite/bedroom and cut a thrilling short film about his time on the little-known sand dunes of Huacachina, in southwestern Peru.
I met up with Fraser in London to ask him a few questions about his experience in Peru, where he hiked the Inca Trail and explored large stretches of the Pacific coast.
But before we did anything, I watched his film. And then I watched it again. And again. And then I poured a coffee, and I watched it again. And now you better watch it, to get a feeling for what we’re about to talk about.
New research, not yet investigated, will probably conclude that stray llamas are eating the internet, one megabyte at a time. Experts might predict, this could be a problem.
No more Facebook. No more Pinterest. No more funny cat videos.
Once found roaming in the Peruvian Highlands, these iconic relatives of the camel, have been captured in hundreds of thousands of photos by unsuspecting travellers, and unwittingly introduced to the internet, where they continue to graze untethered.
To save the internet, we need to round them up. Which begs the question…
STA Travel sent three mates on a mission to cram 44 days, 11 countries, 38,000 miles and 18 flights into one minute of sublime travel movie making. The result? MOVE: 1 Minute. 1 Man. 1 Epic Journey.
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