Monday: Magic bus picked us up, 1st stop Mount Eden, a former volcano with a huge crater, cows now surround this. We also got to see the view of Auckland city at 8am in the morning. 2nd stop Waitomo. Went to the underground caves. Very exciting?!? We got to see glow worms. Then we went to see Rabits being sheared. These big fluffy rabbits have to be sheared every 3 months to stop them getting matted. Poor things. They look very funny, wait for the ph...

Arrived in Auckland yesterday morning at 4.30am. Due to the time difference we missed a whole day! Lefted Chile 11.25pm Thursday and are now here on Saturday morning. Feels so strange. Especially as the flight was only 12 hrs. Got to the hostel, and Wow it is so big. Over 600 rooms, a travel agent, internet area of about 50 computers, massive common area, tv rooms, big kitchen, etc etc. Sorry to go on but after the small hostels in south america this i...

Hello. Arrived in Santiago last night after the 23.5 hrs bus journey. As aways there is a story! Nice coach, comfortable etc. But we missed the bus! Whoops! Had to get a taxi to catch the bus up. It was so exciting, like the movies. The taxi going at full speed for about 15 minutes. I really thought we had missed it, but good old taxi driver caught it up. Then best part was when the taxi had to over take the coach and get it to pull over. We were a...

Hello Everybody, Hope you are all doing well. Well tomorrow I will be saying goodbye to South America, I can not beleive I am finishing the first quarter of my trip. The last 3 months have flown by. And it has all been so much better than I could ever imagine. If New Zeland, Fiji, Australia and Asia will be as good as this then I can`t wait. For those who haven`t been following here is a quick list of what I have been up to.... Brazil Rio...

Saturday: Arrived in San Pedro today at 11.30am. It is so nice and hot here. It is such a nice change as the last 4 days I have been freezing on the Uyuni Salt Flat tour. Great tour though. Really small cute little town. Already I love Chile. The people are nice (and rather trendy looking, guys like the long hair look), weather good, nice food and wine. Every little thing is so much better than Bolivia. Yippee. Need I say I will not be rushing back ...