8 - Bolivia We wereexcited about Bolivia, but we very quickly changed our attitude. Bolivia is a stark difference to the countries we had visited. It is much poorer and the people are far less accommodating, although it is far richer in traditional culture.We began our often frustrating travels crossing the border from Chile.Most people take a tour from the Atacama to see Bolivia's Salt flats, we had decided that we had seen them already and thought it would b...

Viva Latin America - Part 1. Right.... as we are sooooo far behind (4 months to be exact) we thought that we would make a condensed version of our latino movements. This is what we did: 1 - Chile - Numero uno: We began our travels in Santiago where we met up with friends Richard, Tamara and family, who gave us loads of help and advice on surviving South America, plus a tasty, tasty dinner. Thanking you. We set off south towards the lovely surfing town of...

Rozy and Teddy visit NZ: After 4 weeks of touring the South Island at super speed, we headed to the North Island to meet my ma and pa for some slower-paced venturing. We greeted Lord and Lady Northiam (their official title) at the airport with a homemade sign (with Jen's somewhat questionable drawing of the NZ flag?) Our first adventure was to the little town of Warkworth about 2 hours from Auckland. While Mum and Dad stayed at Snells Beach, Marky and I found...

Cookie Monster visits Mount Cookie: After a few days in the Catlins National Park we had had enough of beach forests and petrified wood; we were craving the mountains again. So we packed up our belongings, made some salad sandwiches and headed to Mount Cook (Aoraki - Cloud Piercer) - only the tallest mountain in the whole of the southern hemisphere of planet Earth. As we drove along the glacial valley floor we were trying to identify the exact whereabouts of s...

Galavanting on glaciers: After the incredibly creepy fishing town, we made our way back to civilisation to Franz Josef Glacier. We (being I) had already decided that we were to climb the glacier. Having completely ignored Marky's mumblings that he had been on a glacier in the alps before, I went ahead and booked us on a heli hike. This extravagantly involved us being dropped off on to the glacier where we walked around for a while with crampons, before being pic...