PERU  (24 days)With our time in Ecuador mainly surrounded by mountains we headed for the coast of Peru.  Both Steve and I were rather shocked/surprised and in awe of the various types of landscapes that met us entering the country. Not really the rolling green mountains as we all tend to imagine... but desert and alot of it.  From our first town of Piura we travelled to Trujillo -  a city that we both really loved, wonderful architecture and p...

ECUADOR  (12 days)We loved Ecuador! Around every corner we found something more amazing then the last. The capital, Quito is magic. Loved the old town with amazing old colonial buildings and churches. Wonderful to be there over the weekend to get the true feel of the local vibe. While in the capital we had to go visit Mitad Del Mundo (Middle of the World) Highly touristy though we had to just have that photo between hemispheres, Steve on the North and M...

CHILE  (7days)We stayed in a charming hostel which made our days in the capital a great transition into the new "culture" awaiting us.The city itself reminded us much of Europe though set surrounded by the mighty Andes Mt. range was just so cool. We walked the city streets flat, sampled our first and not by any means our last - yummy pisco sours (national drink) empanades (pastry pie things). Visiting the Cerro Santa Lucia and&n...

NEW ZEALAND South Island - 3 weeks So a sad farewell to Sydney and our very kind hosts Joel and Brent on the 17th June But our travels carry on - Onwards to New Zealand. The land of snow capped mountains, land of Lord of the Rings and a place to use our newly bought thermals! What an unbelievable flight into Queenstown. Absolutely breath taking and so very fortunate to have clear skies for landing. The snow had just fallen so everything wa...

Hunter Valley was great, what we can remember of it anyway! It reminded us of Stellenbosch in South Africa, the last wine region we visited. Here we went to 6 different vinyards were we tasted over 10 wines in each!!! The next morning we got up early and boarded the Greyhound coach. Finally after 2 months in this huge country we were on our way to Sydney! It was only a 2 hour drive from Newcastle before we were driving over the iconic Sydney harbour brid...