TORRES DEL PAINE – EL CHALTEN

Hi everyoneFor people who love mountains Torres del Paine and El Chalten areplaces to go. The mountains are majestic granite pillars, in someplaces topped with back sedimentary rock, formed by an upheaval ofmagma but not a volcano. The glaciers are also amazing. We have seenquite a number by now, with lakes of blue, green and grey at theirbases. Mt Fitzroy [….]

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Patagonia Adventure Tour

Hola EveryoneWell we arrived in Buenos Aires about 3pm on 4/2and were collected and taken to our hotel.The hotel was quite up market so I tookadvantage of the top floorpool to have a swim which was veryrelaxing after the flight. Then a short nap sothat I was ready for the tango show.The show was great, as well a thetango there [….]

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PATAGONIA SALTA ATACAMA

Happy New Year to Everyone who reads Lyn Taylor’s Adventure Travel BlogI hope that 2011 is filled with lots of fun laughter and wonderful challenges. My next adventure tour is a 35 day adventure trip to Patagonia, Salt and Atacama Desert.Ten intrepid traveler’s will depart on this epic adventure on the 4th February. PATAGONIA Patagonia is the most famous region [….]

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CRADLE MOUNTAIN TASMANIA

Hi FolksI have just returned from 5 wonderful days at Cradle Mountain Lodge. Even though I have previously visited the Cradle Mountain area, and completed the Overland Track in perfect weather which is quite unusual. This time I was there to celebrate my birthday! The weather this time was not perfect, Cradle Mountain usually only manages to have 28 days [….]

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WEDDING OF THE YEAR

Pokhara – The city was alive with excitement – a Western wedding was about to take place. Two of my clients from the Gokyo trek loved Nepal so much that they decided to tie the knot in Pokhara. Unlike Western weddings which take months to plan and book, this took 4 hours of preparation. Bill and Margaret arrived in Chitwan [….]

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NEPAL – BHUTAN CULTURAL TRIP

In my last post I mentioned about the chance of not getting out of Lukla airport but today was my lucky day. I decided to return to Ktm 1 day before the group so that I could meet up with my next Nepal/Bhutan group who were flying in on the same day. We all finally connected around 5pm that afternoon. [….]

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GOKYO LAKES TREK – NEPAL

The past 3 weeks since my last blog has been amazing. I said goodbye to the ladies group and the next day headed once again to the airport to greet my next group of 13 well hardened hikers ready to tackle a 16 day trek to Gokyo Lakes. The flights in and out of Lukla the airport which is situated [….]

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BHAKTAPUR – THAMEL

On Saturday we arrived by flight from Chitwan to Kathmandu, it was then a 30 minute vehicle ride to Bhaktapur and our accomodation for the night. The girls spent the afternoon on guided sightseening tour of the city and then hit the shops. The following morning at 2am we were woken with the sounds of the temple bell being rung [….]

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WOMENS NEPAL PROMOTION TRIP

Yesterday we arrived in Chitwan National Park from Pokhara it was a 4 hour drive the weather here is quite hot after the mountains. We had our first sighting of a Rhino and baby bathing in the river. This morning at 7am we were taking on a 1 hour canoe ride down the Rapti river where we spotted several marsh [….]

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NEPAL WOMENS GROUP

We arrived in Kathmanud 8 days ago and went direct to Pokhara which is just about my second home, it was so nice t. I am priveldged to have a wonderful group of 8 ladies who come from all over Australia. Today we successfully completed a 6 day trek to Ghorepani and the weather was spectacular every day we were [….]

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