Our flight to Sydney was a comfy if bumpy one, we passed through two gulf streams which caught us off guard. B.U.M.P.Y.We flew with Quantas for the first time and oh how the other half live, gourmet meals, beers on flow,little sandwiches and ice reams as we went along.....nice :)One of the highlights of the flight was looking out of the window as we were over the South Pole. Because of our flight route the sun never actuallyset so most of the flight saw the plane...

We were in the capital two more time before we left south America;once before we left for E.I and again when we came back from there- each time though we took it pretty easy. They have this great system where all museums are free on Sunday's which we took advantage of the down side of this-the main two museums are closed for a year for renovations :( We did make it to see some fine art- honestly its lost on me! The museum that left its mark on us was the Museum ...

On monday morning we got collected from the hostel and brought to the airport for our long awaited trip to Easter Island. The flight took 6 hours in total but it was a nice flight with some movies enroute to keep us entertained. When we got off the plane we were like two kids we were just excited to finally be on the island. We were met at the airport by Renee from our hostel -who welcomed us with a traditional flower necklace. He collected us along wit...

Valperaiso is only a stones throw from Santiago, so Lee and myself hung around for the morning in Santiago with Anna and Alex, they were off to a different hostel the other side of the city for one more night and we were off to get the bus for Valperaiso. We agreed to meet up the next day and parted ways for 24 hours. Like most of the bus journeys in South America this one was comfortable and more importantly it was our first one in nearly 3 months that would tak...

So off we set, Anna, Alex, Rob and myself we got as far as breakfast before we hit a drama. I overheard the lady from reception talking about a bus strike. When I asked if she knew which companies, she said what all travellers hate to hear "all of them". That set the cat amoung the pigeons. We packed up a little earlier than planned and made our way tot he bus terminal, it turned out it was all Argentinian bus companies. Seemingly they woke up that morning and de...