Salar De Uyuni Trip Day One Woke up and threw our money through the reception window for our hostel because no one was there! we quickly hurried along to get cash out because we needed Bolivians for the border... the cash machine was closed. We were now stuck as San Pedro only has one ATM. What idiot travellers we were not being prepared the night before! We usually laugh at the travellers who do things like this! Luckily enough the guide said he was goin...

San Pedro De Atacama Everything went well with the bus journey, except that we thought we were at our stop twice before we actually were... which was again because of our lack of Spanish! The bus man was quite quick to tell us to stop getting our backpacks off the bus and to get back on! The journey went really quickly. When we woke up in the morning on the bus we looked out the window and we were in complete desert! Nothing to be seen apart from orange s...

La Serena (the town the size of Sandhurst yet has 29 churches!!) We arrived In La Serena after our 6 hour journey and were looking for a nice hostel, we found a few nice ones but they were too expenisive. We arrived in a strange one, the owner couldn't speak english, we agreed that we would stay 2 nights. We got settled in our room which smelt like petrol and Kla went to the loo. When Kla came back from the loo (which was horrible and had the most discusting ...

Santiago We flew into Santiago on Sunday, and went from 12 hours ahead to 4 hours behind. It was Sunday for sooooooo long. We arrived in to the airport to find that our credit card had been blocked and we had no means of payment to get a taxi to the hostel or to use a phone. Luckily Kla managed to get some money out with another card and we eventually got to 'Hostel Sammy.' The taxi driver knocked on a random persons door and tried to take us in thinking it was...

Taupo We went to the Hot Springs when we got here, they were really good. They were waterfalls coming from the Volcanoes which were about 45 degrees, running into the freezing lake! It was soo good that if you hovered on the top of the water your body was hot but your hands were cold at the bottom! The next day we decided to do the Tongariro Crossing. An 8 hour, 19km hike through the Volanoe craters and lakes. Mount Doom (which is in Lord of the Rings) wa...