We woke at 7am after a much needed sleep! We walked aces blocks to get a bus (which was hard work with jet lag and our big bags!) to this random place east of Auckland to pick up our van! It was quite funny because on approach there were beautiful big camper vans, but as we got closer we could see that ours was the tiny car like van parked between them! The paperwork was really quick and we soon had our van! It is the same width as our old ford and a bit tall...

Our taxi to Santiago airport was an experience. The driver was mental! A 35 min journey took just 15 mins! We hung with Oli and Sas before getting our flight. Whilst waiting, Oli bought Game of Thrones book 3 which I felt a bit smug about! As we went through security, a frenzy followed us, which we later found out was this famous Latin singer called Mark Hunter (or something like that) - but he was like 16 and not even handsome! Our flight was good as we had ...

Today is our last day in South America! I am a bit hungover! We joined Oli and Sas for a McDonald's lunch and u had an afternoon nap before sharing a can with them to the airport in the evening. I want to try to summarise my experience of South America: PERU Peru was my favourite country of the 3. Our tour was very intense and left little time for us to relax, but the uniqueness of our excursions; the inca trail, dune bashing, hot springs and south more made ...

Had a lazy day. Garth and I walked to a local park where you could climb a hill for a city view. It was a very good view, but we couldn't see the mountains surrounding the city due to the smog :( We had a hot dog on the way back and bid Grant, Paul and Alison farewell. In the evening we had planned to meet up with Oli and Sas for some last night in South America drinks so bought some beers from the local supermarket and enjoyed them whilst being nosey and spyi...

In the morning we said goodbye to a lot of people. Michelle and Amelia left their bags in our room until 4pm. We all went for lunch at this Italian restaurant across the road that had an iPad on every table, but the food was pretty bad! My hotel room card wouldn't let me in and it was 4 hours before the hotel got me a working key again. It was such a pain and the staff were very unprofessional and rude that I emailed Tucan Travel to complain. Had a chilled ou...