So with San Pedro behind us wuith a memorable a few days in the (wet) desert, next stop was the coastal city of La Serena. A 17 hour bus ride south. After our bus experiences in Bolivia we were expecting a night of no sleep but then we remembered that we are now in Chile, which is a more developed, safer and better organised country, The bus was very comfortable indeed, and you can not believe the pleasure of driving on tarmac roads again, oooooh sooo smooth! ...

The Atacama desert, 40,600 square miles of baked sand and rock that sits between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountains. Considered the driest place on earth, to put it into perspective the Sahara in Africa is twice as wet as here. In fact some areas of the desert have never ever seen rain. So as you might expect we were looking forward to nice sunny, non-wet fun! The town we arrived in is called San Pedro De Atacama and this location hasn't had a drop of ra...

After 155 days of travelling, 9 countries and enough adventures to last us a lifetime we finally arrived in our last country....Chile!! After leaving the thermal baths in Bolivia and heading down from the dizzy and somewhat worrying 5000 metres above sea level, we turned up at the Bolivian border post, at 9:30am. Our bus to take us across the border scheduled for 10am. The border crossing area was very different to what we have experienced thus far, Located hig...

Bolivia, the land formally know as ´High Peru´ was an unexpected highlight, mainly because we had no plans at all to go there! As with Guatemala, we took a detour from our original itinery and explored countries that other travellers had recommended, and like the wonderful country of Guatemala, Bolivia was a fantastic experience and one we will not forget for both good and not so good reasons! Observations of Bolivia: 1) As you may expect from the fact that ...

Onto day three of our crazy trip through the amazing variety of landscapes that Bolivia has to offer. Today we were up early and headed off in the snow to an area of geysers violently erupting out of the snow covered ground with the sun rising in the background, which of course was super amazing. From here we ascended up to 5000 metres above sea level....a new height record for us! Here we all jumped into a natural hot spring to relax after lots of dusty trave...