Feeling pretty tired after touring about South America for 2 months, and a bit hungover from the free vino at the Tango show the night before, we arrived at Santiago airport.We decided we couldn't really face another couple of days walking about a big city (that didn't get a great write up in our guidebook).We were also really looking forward to getting to New York.So on arrival we decided we would chance it and ask at the American Airlines office if there were a...

This is a little bit of a back dated blog entry written on 10th of January in Christchurch, New Zealand for our visit to Buenos Aires in the middle of December. Time has flown over the festive period, and there is not much incentive to enter the internet cafe when you have an ice cold beer in hand on the beach in 30C heat. Nice way to spend New Year. Buenos Aires was a fantastic city and easily our favorite in South America.It had a very European feel to it and ...

We were a bit apprehensive about our bus journey in to Lima.This was thanks to Edgar (our tour guide) telling us the bus we had to get was really "dangerous"!We got our transfer from the hotel and were dropped off on the side of a highway in the middle of nowhere to wait for the "dangerous" bus.It was a bus that locals got rather than the almost private buses we had experienced for the rest of the trip. Edgar flagged down a coach with Lima ...

Due to the recent earthquake that had rocked Pisco we did not venture into the city itself.Our first stop was at a local Pisco distillery on the outskirts of the city.Pisco is the national drink of Peru and is a white spirit distilled from grapes.They drink it straight up or as part of a Pisco Sour, with lime juice, ice, sugar and egg white.We were given a tour of the distillery and sampled the local product all before lunch time; something told us today was goin...

Nazca is famous for the mysterious series of lines that have been chiseled into the rocky dessert.Beyond the lines there is very little in Nazca so our hotel was about 15 minutes outside the town in the country side and on coming off the night bus from Arequipa we were also told it had a swimming pool.This lifted the spirits, until we actually arrived that was. To get the hotel we had to pass through what looked like a refugee camp on the outskirts of the town...