Hi All, yes we are in another country again, this time Argentina. We spent 6 days in San Pedro in Chile doing not a lot, just chilling and enjoying the sunshine. Whilst we were there i managed to persuade John that he woudl like for us to go on a "star gazing" tour! and we did and it was AMAZING. We got driven out into the desert to an "observatory" (french mans garden with telescopes) and i honestly can´t explain how clear the sky was and h...

Yes, we are in Chile. We whizzed through Bolivia, not on purpose but just the way it worked out and now here we are in Chile. So going back a few days, we left Sucre and headed for Potosi to try and get a bus further south, but it didn´t work out like that in the end so we headed to uyuni to do a salt flat tour and the one we chose finished in Chile which is why we are here. The tour was amazing the first day out on the salt flats was fantastic. The sun was shi...

Yes, we are in Chile. We whizzed through Bolivia, not on purpose but just teh way it worked out and now here we are in Chile. So going back a few days, we left Sucre and headed for Potosi to try and get a bus further south, but it didn´t work out like that in the end so we headed to uyuni to do a salt flat tour and the one we chose finished in Chile which is why we are here. The tour was amazing the first day out on the salt flats was fantastic. The sun was shi...

Well just a quick update on our so far ´whirl wind tour of Bolivia. We left Cusco on Thursday and went to Puno which is the Peru side of Lake Titicaca. We did a quick tour of the floating islands - quite interesting and we hopped on a bus to Copacabana in Bolivia (also on lake titicaca). Getting across the border was fine although it was raining and we and our belongings were soaked, but we made it so can´t complain. We stayed in Copacabana for 2 days, day one ...

We are done, we finished our placements at the end of last week. My morning placement with the girls in the safehouse finished on Thursday and it was sad saying lots of goodbyes but some other volunteers have arrived to pick up where i finished so at least i know they have something new to look forward to. On the last day at Johns placement in the clinic the volunteers arranged to take the children to the zoo. So lots of extra volunteers were recruited, including...