We arrived at the bus stop early in the morning on the 14th of July all ready for a trip north to the Bay of Islands. After boarding the bus it soon became clear that the Kiwi Experience office had booked us onto the wrong bus and we were, in fact, heading south to Whitianga in Mercury Bay. After quickly consulting lonely planet we worked out what we would be doing that day and were able to relax after all. A quick stop at Mt Eden gave us some more cool views of ...

We arrived in Auckland at around 10am after nearly 24 hours travelling from Santiago, via Buenos Aries where ours was just about the only early morning flight that wasn't subject to a massive delay. Unfortunately our very untraveller-like 5* hotel room wasn't quite ready so we had a few hours to explore the city centre which was almost like being at home after so long in central and South America. After an evening of recharging our batteries the next day was tim...

We arrived on Easter Island at around 8pm and were greeted by Marcelo our hostel host who has leis for both of us. The weather was very warm and was a lovely change compared to the rainy Santiago that we had just left. The hotel we stayed in was so lovely as was our host. Marcelo took us on a tour of Hanga Roa the main town of Easter Island which took about 2 minutes! The first day of our stay and we decided to take a walk around Hanga Roa and walked to the East...

Our trip through the Atacama desert brought us, perhaps unsurprisingly, to the small oasis town of San Pedro. San Pedro is a very chilled out picturesque place with some spectacular scenery surrounding it. It also seems to be a black hole for hippies who seemed to be on the streets all day long and also running most of the businesses. Unfortunately not only is Chile the most expensive country in South America but small, isolated desert towns are the most expensiv...

Hello again, sorry it has been such a long time since we wrote anything on here! We are currently in NZ safe and sound but I am going to get everyone up to speed on what we have been doing for the last month and a half. Bolivia is probably one of our favourite countries so far. We left Cochabamba for Sucre a beautiful city further south where we chilled out and visited Joy Ride Cafe a cool gringo cafe with a cinema. We watched 'The Devil's Mine' there, a film ab...