Okay, so we're now settled into a lovely B&B in Cuenca after making a quick exit from Guayaquil- all I can say about that place is yuck- but in the words of the great Hammy Hamster, that's another story… Valpo, as the locals call it, is a charming city. The whole thing is classed as a UNESCO world heritage site and it's not hard to see why. It's amazing. The city is spread across hill after hill and everywhere you looked, up or down, there were the most br...

We're on our flight up to Guayaquil, Ecuador. Looks like we're finally heading in the appropriate direction for where we're supposed to end up. We're down to the final thirty minutes of our five hour flight and Dair's just fallen asleep with his mouth slightly agape, a little drool running down his chin, and the odd snore escaping--but it's cute, so I'll leave him that way for now. The main things we noticed about being in the capital of Chile were that it was i...

I left off with us crossing the border into Chile and running into our Cali friends. They helped us figure out the exchange rate and then pointed us towards the bus station and off we went. First we had a short ride to Calama, which was indeed the "s*** hole" that the book suggested. Then it was another seven hours on to Iquique, which turned out to be in Northern Chile on the coast. It was a long haul to do in one day, from the mountains of Bolivia to the shores...