off skiing today

Well here I am in Roatorua, land of geo thermal activity mud pools and geysers (the things in the ground, not the dodgy blokes!).... the sun is shining and the place is gorgeous. Rotarua is a bit of a strange place! (Rotaruan's don't take offense!) The earths crust is so thin here, that any water in the ground is heated by the earth, this means that all over the town there are thermal mud pools spewing out hot steam and even in my hostel there were thermal pools...

YO! Well here I finally am! yes I have finally left South America to head off on the next leg of my RTW trip! YAY!!!!!!! I'm still struggling with the date and time as I was only up in the air for 14 hours traveling from Santiago to Auckland but I set off on the 3rd September and landed on the 5th (so the 4th of September is well.....just lost somewhere!) Well what can I say about Auckland so far!!? well firstly is that how clean it all is ! I have yet to s...

Well here I am for the second time in Santiago! and you know I love it!! This time round its almost spring and its nice and warm in the day time with bright blue skies. Now that the smog has cleared slightly I can now see walk around the city I can now properly see the Andes for the first time! they are massive (as you would expect) and beautiful. I'm down here to catch my flight to New Zealand and had hoped to do some skiing as some of Chile's best slopes are...

After my mammouth 28 hours bus journey from Colombia over the boarder to Quito in Ecuaor, I have decided to treat myself to a flight down to Chile. I arrived at 3am (yuk!) and have spent the last 2 days chilling and snozzing interspursed with the odd mouch around Santy. This time round Santiago is soooo much nicer than when I was here last, spring is so its way, and this time round I can actually see the Andes surrounding the city (last time all I could see wa...