So I started my Budget Expeditions tour in La Paz Bolivia. I arrived a few days early with Lucy to get used to the altitude (being 3800 metres above sea level), and look around and absolutely loved it. The city is huge and as you drive down into it you can see the houses built up for miles along the mountainsides and the streets were full of little old women in huge flowery skirts and black bowler hats with shawls full of trinkets (or sometimes children) tied ove...

CHILE -28th - 30th Oct and 6th - 12th NovSantiago, Chile was my first stop in South America and I spent two days here marvelling at the architecture, tramps and stray dogs, oh and the punks... Tarton, pink and studs seemed to be the only dress amoungst teenagers! I walked to the top of an old walkway in Santa Maria and was amazed by the veiws of the city, which from below you cant tell is surrounded by desert mountains. I then walked around the main square, saw t...

Argentina 30th Oct - 5th Nov After a 22 hour bus from Santiago I made it to Buenos Aires in Argentina. Along the way I had the great fortune of meeting an old Argentinean couple called Liliane and Enrique who insisted on helping me with my poor Spanish and buying me food! They then let me live with them for a few days, continued to feed me and got me addicted to Dulce de Leche a typical Argentinean desert and bought me the best steak I have ever eaten for around...

BULA BULA So finally we had some time to do NOTHING! I dont think you realise how tiring this travelling lark really is. Up at the crack of dawn, packing, un-packing re-packing, cheking in, checking out, sleeping on busses. Lifting and carrying my rucksack is like a gym work out on its own! So Fiji was bliss, getting up only to eat and lay on the beach and paddle in the sea and moving only to reaply sun lotion and change position! The moment we stepped off the ...

Ok so since the Sky dive over two weeks ago we have travelled almost the whole length of NZ (well the main parts anyway) We made our way from Taupo to Wellington, New Zealand's capital city, took a ride up the tram and that was as much of Wellington as we could bear! Then we crossed on the ferry to Picton and then caught our Magic bus on to Nelson with Louisa who we'd met on the Magic bus in Auckland. Anyway Nelson is said to be the sunniest place in NZ and lucki...