We picked up the camper at 10am, we ended up going for the full insurance as only 20% of people in New Zealand have insurance. The guy gave it to us for next to nothing anyway so we weren't to fussed. We decided to head up north stopping off in Pahia for the night. We headed off from the rental place and it took us about an hour to get out of Auckland, it was a well complicated motorway. We finally got going and realised even though the van was a 3-litre it didn'...

Landed safely in Auckland , passed through security without any problems, i managed to get a longer visa than Brid so she must look well dodgy. Waited for the bus as the immigration guy told us the price of taxi's was really expensive. We waited out side the terminal for 20mins and jumped on the bus to the town centre, we had pre-booked a hostel already. We dumped our bags in our room and seeing as it it was 6 in the morning and we wern't tired we had a walk arou...

We arrived in Santiago around 3:30pm and jumped into a taxi to the hostel de Sammy, it was recommended to us by some other folk we met in Peru. The guy had two cool dogs, a small golden lab and some other thing, I didn't know what it was but it looked nice. The place looked pretty good, heaps of stuff for wasting time. We headed off into the centre of town but seeing as it was a Sunday it was pretty deserted. Went and had a burger king as we hadn't seen one for a...

We set off for our mammoth journey to San Pedro De Atacama in Chile early, we first travelled 6 hours to The Peruvian-Chilean Border to a small town called Tacna, and we then jumped in a car with 3 other people to cross the border to Arica. We just made it onto another bus to San Pedro which was another 12 hours. The 12 hour bus was pretty comfy to it wasn't to bad, we managed to get plenty of sleep and arrived in San Pedro around 8 in the morning. They are reall...

We were waiting in the hostel lobby for our promised transfer. It was about 15mins till the bus left and there was no sign of the bus, pretty annoyed we jumped into a taxi and headed of to the bus station ourselves. We found the bus and realised the bug*er had put us in the rubbish seats on the top floor so we went back inside and payed extra so we could sit in the good seats downstairs. We then noticed that the cheeky barstward had put the departure tax stickers...