Our adventures in England lasted for just under a month. After flying into London, and covering the south coast from Brighton to Land’s End, we finally ended up in Bristol, where we stayed with a friend of ours from Canada. While staying in Bristol over the Christmas holidays - a vacation within a vacation - [...]
After leaving the African continent during our 2008 trip overseas, we came to the conclusion that we were not quite ready to go home, and decided upon spending a month traveling around England. From Accra we flew to London - with a short stopover in Casablanca - and parted ways with our travel companions, who [...]
We travelled for 10 weeks from Tangier, on the northern tip of Morocco across the Sahara desert on our way to Ghana. These podcasts were originally uploaded while on the road, but they became lost (to us at least) in the void of the internet until we got home. In total there were Three Episodes [...]
This is Episode Three of the ContinentalDrifters.ca Podcast, featuring Rob Sweatman, Adam Pateman, and Stewart Gary (with Beth and Natalie who somehow stuck it out and survived 10 weeks traveling with us through Africa), as they update the world about their trip through Africa. Part three was recorded live Busua, Ghana, where we had [...]
At one point in time this was a place where Tiger’s were hunted to near extinction, but today India is one of the last places these magnificent creatures have been able to flourish in the wild. There are several high profile reserves, such as Corbett NP in Udar Pardesh and Kanha NP in Madhya Pardesh, [...]
Our trip through Africa would not have been complete without making a stopover at one of the many Wildlife Reserves scattered across the continent. Unfortunately, our journey across West Africa was not specifically catered to searching out for wildlife (it was a long distance journey from North to South), and our stopover at Panjari National [...]
The Iguacu River begins in Brazil and weaves it’s way across the Brazilian plains before reaching the famed Waterfalls/Cataratas at Iguacu. The falls are located along the border of Brazil and Argentina, and represents one of the most stunning natural sights of either country. The river moves slowly as it creeps towards the edge of [...]
We had just traveled from Bamako, following the course of the Niger River to the North of Mali. We spent our first night in Mopti, just to break up the journey, and eventually made it to Djenne, the UNESCO World Heritage Town, home to the world famous mud mosque. We were nearing the end of [...]
Patagonia is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the East and the Andes to the West, covering a grand total of 670,000 km². The vast expanse is one of the world’s largest cold weather desert’s in the world, second only to the Gobi Desert. The Andes is the geographic border between Chile and Argentina, and [...]
The Patagonian desert covers most of southern Argentina, from the Andes to the Atlantic, and from Tierra de Fuego to La Pampas to the south of Buenos Aires. One of the greatest deserts in the world, it cover’s over 670,000 km² ( 260,000 mi² ) and ranks as the 7th largest, its vast expanses inspire [...]