Well, We arrived at Puerto montt yesterday afternoon early and after a bus trip to Puerto Varas quickly settled into the best hotel on this trip by far with pool,spa,games room and heaps of different living and lounging areas and my room overlooks a graet lake that is massive. The town has a very european look thanks to the German settlers. Dinner at local restaurant was great as this is a fishing town with big local fish market and the seafood was fabulous. Earl...

Arrived in Santiago yesterday and finally, a clean modern city not unlike Melbourne. Back to being able to flush toilet paper and feeling very civilised here! Bus leaves in 30 minutes to take us to a winery to taste the local wines (however for me this started as soon as we landed in Argentina all those weeks ago!) and then a city tour. Tomorrow we fly south to Puerto Montt whish is in southern Chile. (Thanks for the messages but my replys apear to be not gettin...

Hi All, Got here yesterday after walking across the border from Peru, then changing money, passport checks, other checks and finally on another bus. Most if the trip was following lake Titicaca (highest navagatable lake in the world) and we stopped at some pre Inca ruins on way around 2,500 years old. Bolivia is much like Peru except they have 4 main languages and lesislation has just been passed to increase this to 65 offial languages! Off on bus toor now to se...

Hi All, Entries are a bit sposmadic but sometimes I just cannot get near a pc to update. While I have been leaving a few gaps here is the latest. Travelled from Cusco to Puno yesterday and because of a farmers strike the main road was closed halfway and this added 3 hours to our bus trip which was a total of 13 hours including stops. Good thing was that we took the scenic route though mountain areas less often travelled and saw some very different stuff on a ver...

Yes it has been a while since my last blog but I have been in the Jungle (no reception) and some hotels are also without WiFi and the pace has been generally fast with little time to sit down and do a blog. Iquazu falls were truly amazing and it took two days to explore from the air, water, trails and boardwalks. Took millions of shots but still dont know how to upload to site. Rio was next and that was also fantastic, then off to Lima and then currently Cusco w...