Dan and Jens Escape

Well it’s all over if your reading this; we have finished our year’s adventure! Unfortunately that means you all have to do work at work now, instead of reading our blogs!! What a year....... and Brazil was a fantastic end. We met some great people who helped to make our last week’s travelling really enjoyable and brazil has some absolutely amazing places albeit a little expensive! Well here goes for our final entry........................ From Iguazu Fallls we took the bus up to Campo Grande to do our final jungle trip, we just can't get enough of them. We decided 2 days would be enough as we just wanted to flash pack from now on and not slum it for too long!! We needn't have worried though, when we arrived at our accommodation it came complete with ... read more

Despite all the bad press about Colombia, we thought the country was fantastic. There's not a lot of tourism in the country yet so there isn't loads of tour companies offering trips everywhere, but that was a good thing, we just had time to wonder around enjoying the local atmosphere. The people were so friendly, which always makes you a bit wary at first in a new country, but you soon learn that they are genuinely being nice and genuinely wanted you to see their country. We only had two and half weeks there and started it by flying from Ecuador up to the Caribbean Coast to the city of Cartagena. A gorgeous old restored town where we just spent 5 days wondering around the streets, beaches and sitting around, it was a beautiful place. You ... read more

We found it.....................our paradise on earth........The Galapagos Islands. We could of stayed forever!! Just one and half hours flight from mainland Ecuador these islands are a world apart. They lie in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and are absolutely brimming with unique wildlife and gorgeous beaches. Within minutes of leaving the airport we were in the company of Sea Lions, Pelicans, huge Crabs and Marine Iguanas. It was amazing. We decided not to take a cruise around the islands, which is the most common way to see them and just tour them ourselves. We took a speedboat over to the island of Isabella, which was absolutely stunning with long white sandy beaches, it was very tranquil and had only 2000 inhabitants. Its one of the only islands with the Galapagos penguins and a lagoon of ... read more

Bolivia has got to be one of the most under rated places in the world...........that we have seen anyway. It has endless, interesting places to visit and activities to do in almost every town. It is extremely cheap for westerners to visit but the country is very poor with the majority of families incomes coming from farming and mining. You are hindered a little by the constant protesting and road blocks of the locals (but they are for very good reasons may I add), The first we experienced was on our first day in the country. We were on a bus to a town called Tupiza along a dusty, unsealed road when the bus suddenly stopped in the middle of no where and they started to unload our bags, all the locals picked up there belongings ... read more

On leaving New Zealand at 5pm on a Sunday afternoon, and having done an 11hr flight, we landed in Chile 3 hours earlier than when we had left???? It left us feeling very disorientated!!! We flew into Santiago the capital of Chile and started to get a little worried as within the first day we saw a dead body, a shoplifter in action and a thief in the street, however there was no need as it turned out to be a very safe and nice place. Jet lag soon hit us for a good week after we had arrived but luckily this gave us time to adjust ourselves to the different way of life we would have to lead, their culture, and the climate, as it was freezing and our hotelier had definitely forgot to pay ... read more