Fabulous Adventures of Mister Wombat

Mister Wombat and the Torries del Paines in Patagonia, Chile

Mister Wombat after a three day walk - with no shoes on - to Machu Picchu, Peru

Ah, the Americas. Lets start at the bottom, Patagonia is as far south as you can go on this massive continent. Huge glaciers roll down the side of mountains and striking fiords eat into the land. A world forgotten by all apart from the bravest and most adaptive members of the natural world (and the odd wombat).

Mister Wombat in the Torries del Paines national park in Patagonia. Very cold for a wombat

The Tories del Paine is a national park in Chilean Patagonia. Famous for several massive glaciers and a series of giant granite columns that raise from the ground. The name it's self translates to the plain of horns. You can see me in front of those horns to the right.

Moving on up. South America is most famously known for it's advance civilisations and most famously the Incas. The Inca empire at it's height stretched almost the entire length of South America.

It's capital was Cusco in Peru. Very little remains of this empire, mostly destroyed by the Spanish, however in 1911 an American named Hiram Bingham discovered a lost Inca city. Led to by a fabled Inca road, Machu Picchu is the most iconic image of the region and a great photo for me, seen to the left, I'm over looking the city from the sun gate.

Mister Wombat in La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Taking in some Tango dancing

Don't cry for me Argentina. Che Guevara, Eva Peron and great steaks are a few things Argentina is famous for, but none so much as Tango, a spicy dance that developed in the capital Buenos Aires. So how could one visits this huge country without at least seeking it out. To the left is me in La Boca on the main street, Caminito, a colourful area once home to the original 'Tangoers'.

Mister Wombat at the Iguazu Falls

Also in Argentina, but also in Brazil are the Iguazu Falls. They lie right on the border between the two countries and next to the border with Paraguay, meaning you can see three countries in one view. The water fall is massive (you see about a tenth of it on my photo as you cannot see it all with one view and up close to the fast bits it's a bit too dangerous and wet for a wombat to be photographed) and one of the most spectacular sights on the continent. There are about 270 waterfalls stretching 2.7km and one hell of a lot of water - 9 million litres per second. Wow. The name Iguazu comes from the Guarani words y (water) and guasu (big). The legend says that a god pretended to marry a beautiful aborigine named Naipú, who fled with her mortal lover in a canoe. In rage, the god sliced the river

Mister Wombat on the beach in Rio in front of Sugar Loaf Mountain. Hardly sunny Rio on this day!

They say life's a beach and then you die. No wait that's life's a bitch. Anyway this is me in Rio where life was a beach. Taken on a untypical over cast day. Still you can just about see the sugar loaf behind me. Moving and up, the equator splits the continent in it's namesake Ecuador.

Mister Wombat on the Equator in Ecuador

Yep that's me in a traditional Ecuadorian hat (right) sitting right smack bang on the equator (two paws in each hemisphere, if you must know). By the way did you know that Panama hats are actually from Ecuador, made famous by Ecuadorian workers, working on the Panama canal.