The flight from Santiago in Chile to Auckland in New Zealand was a long uncomfortable 13 hours. After having the comfort of (most but NOT all) South American buses for two and a half months we noticed the reduction in space on the plane and found it difficult to get comfy. We left Santiago at 11pm on Tuesday and arrived in Auckland at 4am on Thursday and felt rather jet lagged and a bit confused with times and dates. We hung around in the airport until 8am waitin...

Sadly we were rapidly running out of time in SA and so we were left with 2 days in Santiago. So we wanted to make the most of them, we picked our highlights. One being the Museo de Archealogica something or other which had thousands of old artifacts dating back to pre-Columbian and the main draw card, more mummies or as we are fondly calling them on our travels....dead people...woooh! Sadly when we got there, no dead people, we were massively disappointed but wan...

We took a ferry from Colonia del Sacremento (via a bus from Montevideo) to Buenos Aires and checked in to our hostel which was more like a hotel right in the centre of the city on Avenida Florida. On our first day in Buenos Aires we went to a place called Recoletta which is an affluent area of the city and has nice hippy market and is the home of the famous Recoletta Cementario. This is a cemetery built for the more prestigious people in the city, and is resti...

On our way to Buenos Aires in Argentina we made a short stopover in Montevideo for a day and a half. The city is very pretty and has many nice plazas as well as the harbour, we spent our first afternoon wandering around the city and having a few drinks. On the evening we thought we would go for a nice meal and a few drinks since we had been eating in recently. Arriving at the recommended restaurant "Don Pepperone" we got quite excited when we found a me...

Another 18 hours on an overnight bus and we arrived in Punta del Este, which to our delight had a clear blue sky and the sun was shining, which woke us up at 6am from our panoramic view at the front of the overnight bus. We checked into our hostel, La Lomita de Chingolo, a small guest house where we lived with a family. The owner Rodrigo took us out in his 4X4 to show us a few of the local sights whilst he checked out the surf for the day. The guest house was loc...