Kryshee

Australia - Queensland - Port Douglas After Dan's disappearance back home I decided to head back to Port Douglas, a beach town North of Cairns. It's a beautiful beach resort set in the tropics, a popular destination for weddings and a holiday destination for a few famous faces - not that I saw any mind you. It's also where Steve Irwin experienced his unfortunate encounter with a Stingray and a few kilometres further North of Port Douglas is where they film Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. Apart from all that, it became my beautiful home for two months. I stayed in an amazing hostel, Dougies Backpackers, where I purchased a little two man tent and found a cosy spot in the campsite. A great way to save some money and to get you out of ... read more

New Zealand was a five day whirl, filled with jet lag, broken cameras and making sure I got the right plane to the right destination. I spent two days in Auckland freeeeeeeeeezing my bum off but enjoying a view fromt the Sky Tower, a harbour boat trip and a boat trip to a nearby town Davenport. Then I headed down to Christchurch where I froze my bum off a bit more before heading to Sydney. It was a short but sweet trip stay in New Zealand (as I overstayed my welcome in South America). But I'll be back!... read more

Our last day in La Paz was spent watching the Wimbledon final and eating a proper dinner, as all Sundays should be spent. That afternoon we headed to the bus station in a cab driven my a man wearing a rather fetching all in one Addisdas tracksuit. We were just about to comment when he splurted out some amazing English. Phew! We jumped on an overnight bus to Sucre, the real capital of Bolivia, where Nic and I would be enrolling in Spanish school for the last time. We arrived early the next morning and after a snooze headed out to find a suitable Spanish school and some voluntary work teaching English. Thankfully we found both. Spanish school from 8.30am until 12.30pm and teaching English to 10-12 year olds in the afternoons. Classes started the next ... read more

At 7.30am we got on our bus, luckily finding a cab to the bus station big enough for four girls and their bags. Why does my bag keep getting bigger?! The first few hours we managed to catch up on some sleep and arrived in Puno mid afternoon, catching a cab to our hostel. It was freeeeeeeeeeezing! We were warned it would be a bit chilly but seriously, leggings, trousers, vests, T-Shirts, jumpers, hats and scarves and we were still cold. Again, the town was at about 3800m so that would explain it. No sooner had we arrived at our hostal, a well placed tour lady showed up with a 2 day tour to the Lake, including an overnight stay. It sounded perfect, so after an evening of copious tea drinking and seeing how many pairs ... read more

We arrived in Cusco in the morning, catching a cab from the airport. By this point I had realised that the padlock on my backpack was well and truly broken and there would be a few issues of accessing clothes. So our little cab driver (by the way, they´re all very little over here) kindly found me somewhere to break my padlock in a middle of a busy market street. We did have a few moments where we thought we might be victims of some kind of "con" so we kept watchful eyes on our backpacks. Luckily for us the little kind man really was lovely. Arriving into Cusco, we met Amy (a friend from Santa Martha) and Nic (who I had met in Quito) as the four of us pretty much had the same plans ... read more

The next few days were a little crazy. After a six hour journey from Cuenca we arrived in Loja. A town where there isn´t really much to do but book a bus to the next place. We found a bus to Piura, our first stop in Peru leaving that night at 11pm. We successfully wasted a day in Loja by drinking a few drinks very slowly, emailing and sorting out the all important bus snacks. We arrived at the terminal, a little scarily searched for weapons, drugs etc before getting on the bus and then headed off. The bus stopped at the Ecuador / Peru border for us, where we were to get stamped out on one side, walk across the bridge and get stamped into Peru. However, the guards computer had different ideas and unfortunately ... read more