I´ll mention all the names of the places we visited along the way from Santiago to San Pedro De Atacama, to make it a little more interesting and as a point of reference for me, even if for some of you, the names will mean absolutely nothing. The name of the places meant nothing to me before I entered Chile, as I had only heard of Santiago, the Atacama Desert, and that was about it to tell you the truth. I had heard of Easter Island as well, but that is as close...

When travellers arrive in Santiago from the air, a lot of the time they are faced with the decision of trundling north to the Atacama desert or heading South to the Lake district and beyond to Patagonia. My first port of call was to head west (well ok north west to be precise) and see one of the countries most important seaports. Haven't I made it so exciting for you to want to read on more? To make you even more enthralled, I have shamelessly stolen this from ...

This is my first blog entry from Latin America, a world so far away from good old home, in so many different aspects. I had only been there, and I realised straight away that it was so different. The plane journey which took under 11 hours was mainly bog standard. I set off at around 4:30pm from Auckland on the 19th of April and landed around 1pm on the 19th April in Santiago. Me singing Cher a few weeks on Karaoke "If I could turn back time" really d...