So we left Australia behind us on the 17th of October and flew to Santiago. After a 24 hour flight we arrived about four hours after we left which we still don't really understand. It took us a couple of days to get over the jet lag, not helped by a hangover on the second day. We headed south on a very long bus journey to Bariloche which is just over the border in Argentina. We were expecting the weather to be a bit cold but weren't expecting the heavy snow...

Last stop in Bolivia was a trip across the salt plains at Uyuni. The trip involved a landrover for three days towards the Chilean border, it is all cross country as there are no roads. There were six of us in the landrover us, Jack and Joe a couple from Bristol and Matt and Val from Cambridge. Jack grew up in the circus (that's right Stevie a proper carnie) and now earns his money as an elf. Joe was a new age traveller and former Freegan, which is someone who...