Unfortunately we couldn´t saty in Mendoza and drink wine forever so on Sunday morning we headed to the bus terminal and caught a bus to Santiago de Chile. The bus took about 7 hours and was pretty uneventful apart from the border crossing which was a bit of a pain. We all had to take our hand luggage off the bus and all of our bags in the hold had to be taken off and put through a belt like you would do in an airport. They had sniffer dogs checking the vehichles...

On Thurs night we decided to book a tour through the hostel to go wine tasting. We wanted to go ourselves but then decided against it because we thought it might not be quite the same as it was in Australia, plus there would be the small language issue! On Fri morning at 9am we were picked up in a small mini-bus. There were about 15 of us in the group but everyone was of different ages and nationalities. The only other English person was a cockney bloke, probabl...

La Paz-Mendoza (via many unknown places!) Argentina part 2! We have returned to Argentina where we first started, however the computer has put all of our first entries (from Buenos Aires, and Iguassu) along with this one. Careful you don´t get confused! x x x After escaping Carlos in the restaurant in La Paz, we shot off to the bus station and bought a ticket for the same night to Mendoza. 38 hours we were told. We went with a company called ¨Panamer...

On Monday (12 Nov) we got a tourist bus to La Paz, Bolivia via Copacobana. We had about 2 hours in Copacobana which seemed like a really nice town, so we grabbed some lunch and managed to bump into the German couple with whom we had done the Inca Trail! We also managed to sort all of the immigration procedures uneventfully (!!) and bump into another couple who had been on the Inca Trail. It´s a small world when your all travelling the same way! We arrived in La...

We stayed in Cuzco for one more night and then we left on Saturday morning (10th Nov) and headed south towards Puno and Lake Titicaca. Our bus left at 8am and took 6 hours to wind throught the hills until we arrived in Puno. While we were on the bus a guy had approached us offering accomodation. There was a free transfer to the hostel and hot water (most places in Puno don´t supply hot water!) so we decided to go with him, as did all of the other Gringos on the ...