MATT: San Pedro De Atacama is a small, mostly adobe built village that sits in the cross roads of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. It is on the edges of the high plateau of the Atacama desert and sits at about 2600m. We are beginning to feel the effects of the altitude up here...a little short of breath, but it is the dryness that hits us most. Before long we are both experiencing minor bloody noses due to insides of our noses drying out and cracking. Also, the sun ...

MATT: We arrive in Salta after an easy flight and quick taxi ride to the hostal where we are going to stop for the night ahead of an early bus ride back into Chile tomorrow morning. The hostal ticks all the boxes - it is central, clean but basic and very chilled. Our first task is to head out to the bus station, three blocks up the street to sort out the bus tickets for the morning - pretty straight forward, untill we get there and find that the bus we were aimi...

MATT: I am going back a bit now as we have been a bit lax in keeping up the blog over the last couple of weeks as we have been super busy and in a lot of places with limited internet access...but anyway, after our amazing trip to L'Oriental Estancia in Junin, we returned to Buenos Aires for a few more days fun in this amazing city. We swapped hostels to the much better America Del Sur, possibly the best hostel we have stayed in in S. America - super friendly, we...

Kel: We left BA for a place called Junin, a 4 hour bus journey out of town. It's a nice enough wee town but we didn't go there for that. We got another taxi about 16k out of town. We had a driver who looked like a Spanish Andy Garcia in an old addidas shell suit. He had longish hair and Matthew made me take pictures of him from behind cause he's finally found a long hair do that he can aspire to .... honest. Anyway, Andy took us to La Oriental, a beautiful b...

Kel: We made it to BA! Felt like a bit of a milestone really reaching the big smoke. We were only there for a couple of days before we broke off into another wee adventure (more on that later) but would be returning for more fun after that. So we started off walking.... loads. We wandered round the main city centre, fantastic architecture, very European. We visited the government building (pink house) where Evita would have made her speeches to the masses fr...