We will probably speak to most people before they even read this blog, but we have a few hours to kill so here goes. It is 5am and we are in the Auckland airport (drinking Aussie beer in the Qantas club of course). We just got off the 13 hour flight from Santiago which was preceded by a 2 hour flight from Buenos Aires. Both very uneventful flights. Got a few winks of sleep, but after the luxurious comfort of long haul south american buses it is very hard to com...

Today is going to be one of the longest days in history I think. We´re still in Buenos Aires, killing time until we fly out this afternoon. Neither of us slept all that well last night because we´re too excited about coming home! Buenos Aires has been an awesome place to finish the trip though. Great atmosphere, delicious food and it´s cheap. We arrived Sunday afternoon on an overnight bus and headed straight out in search of the famous Sunday mar...

We arrived at the Iguazu falls 3 days ago after a 22 hour bus trip from Rio. In Rio since our last post we went to a brazilian futeball game (soccer), which was awesome. It wasnt really a big game as far as futeball goes because it was between 2 Brazilian teams (Flamengo & Atletico). Flamengo being a Rio team, the poor Atletico fans were greatly outnumbered. Fortunately Flamengo won (2-0), i think if they lost it could have got messy afterwards. Everyone wa...

We flew into Rio at 3am yesterday morning. Since the last post (in Puno) we spent most of a day driving to La Paz (the capital of Bolivia). The border crossing took a few hours on the Peru side as it was very disorganised. We had to get a bit physical to stop the locals from pushing in front of our tour group. That night we had a farewell dinner with our tour group to send off the people leaving in La Paz. We made some good friends during the trip. The next day w...

2 days ago we arrived in a small town called Puno. Puno is right next to Lake Titicaca so yesterday our group embarked on a boat and we taken to an island to have some lunch (fresh trout) and then we were taken to another island where we were billeted with local families to stay the night. Our mum and dad (in their fifties) had a boy about 15 years old. We took a few presents such as sugar, rice and pasta which is customary to do. They took us to their local socc...