3 days, 22 hours, 36 min, 32 sec...

This is a screenshot of the top right corner on my PC here at work. It's a little countdown timer showing the remaining time until my Zagreb - London flight on Tuesday. It's been here with me for some time now, so it's nice to see it showing only a few days left. :)

Anyway, it's Friday and it's time for my 5 week long holiday. Finlay!
w00t!

So, the plan goes something like this:
We leave for London on Tuesday the 12th of August. We spend 3 days there and then on Saturday we catch a flight to Buenos Aires. We probably spend a night in Buenos and hopefully we catch another flight (or perhaps a bus) to a small town on the far south of Argentina called El Calafate. This will then be our home base for exploring the Patagonia's glaciers.
Some ten days later we need to be in Cusco, Peru. We are not sure how we'll get there, but we'll most likely have to fly again. Then we leave our bags in Cusco and head out for a 4days/3nights Inka Trail. We'll be hiking along ancient Inka path that takes us across the Andes mountains ending at Machu Picchu. We'll have porters carrying the tents and most of the food. We go back to Cusco with a bus or a train.
After that we'll probably stay in Cusco for a few more days exploring the city and surrounding Inka related sites. Then we head towards Chile stopping in Arequipa (Peru) on the way.
In Chile the plan is to definitely see the Atacama desert. We'll probably stay in a small town called San Pedro de Atacama and if we find enough time we'll try crossing the border to Bolivia, which is supposedly very beautiful and well worth a visit.
At the end we'll try to go to Iguazu falls - it's something like South America's version of Niagara. The Iguazu falls are located on the Argentina-Peru-Brazil border so this is somewhat out of our way, but we'll try to get there if we can.
Then it's back to Buenos so we can catch a flight back on the September 11th. (Uh, I just realized at what date we are flying back.) We land in London on Friday night and catch our flight back to Zagreb on the following morning.

That's about it. I'm not sure how often this blog will be updated though, who knows when and where we'll be able to access the internet...

Finally, since one of the major reasons for doing this trip is photography, here's one of my favorite photography tutorial-like articles, take a look: link. It's called: 'The secret of too' and it's something I'll try reminding myself often during the next 5 weeks. ;)