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 ...

Uyuni Tour Thursday: Got to Uyuni at 3.30am in the morning. Freezing. The tour company never told us this bit! Had to book into a hostel as the tour doesn`t start until 10.30am. Met our group in the morning. Nice bunch. Gwill from UK, Dorg from Germany, Sibble from Swit, and 2 japans girls (not 100%) sure on their names. The guide spoke no English. Fantastic!! The tour company forgot to mention this as well. We were all bundled into a litt...

La Paz - nice hey!!??! Got here last night about 9.30pm - 10pm from Copacabana, Lake Titicaca. It took nearly five hours, so much for the 3 hr bus ride! I had to get off at one point and get a boat across the river. It was such an experience. All the tourist buses were booked so I had to get the local one. They put my rucsac on the roof!! I was a little concerned but I got it back at the end. Once we got near to la paz it was horrible. Very poor...