We headed off from Salta for small town of Villazon just over the Bolivian border and crossed over the line with no fuss, hoping for the best after the horror stories we have heard about food and transport . . . soon as you’re in Bolivia you know it, there are mostly indigenous people and you see quite a few people carrying bald chickens with things dripping off, on the streets and in the Café’s. Ian recommended we went with eggs and I wasn’t going to argue, we plumped for fried egg on a tough cob of bread in a dingy [View Full Entry]

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Hola! Got back to BA after another 14 hour bus journey and met up with Ian. Spent the first day chilling out and we didn’t have much to talk about as Ian has been reading my blog! ,o) Enjoyed the day taking in more sights and we enjoyed an all you can eat steak BBQ at another America Del Sur hostel in San Telmo area of BA. . not sure how much more steak I can take. . hostel is very modern with a good crowd and we ended up going out with a couple of backpackers to the Palermo region [View Full Entry]

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Ho´la! Took a five hour bus journey from Puerto Natales to El Calafete in Argentina through Patagonia (they look half an hour away from each other on the map). . was a bumpy ride and a bit of time was taken up at border control, as we got into Argentina there was a brief five minutes where I saw pink flamingos, wild horses running across the plaines, ostrich grazing on the side road, bulls, a group of eagles flying above, and Lama´s playing . . and then didn´t see anything until we got to El Calafate . . . stopped off [View Full Entry]

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Ho´la! After a friendly taxi journey I arrived at my chilled out Hostel (they’ve written ´just ring the bell´ on the wall outside with a marker pen) to be met by Pedro who had a nice big spliff in his hand along with a big smile on his face. . . Pedro gave me a good overview of Santiago and places to go and when I asked is it safe to walk round the neighbourhood he laughed and assured me this is the safest place in South America . . Hooked up with a guy from Leicester called Ben and we [View Full Entry]

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I´m only joking Mum, that´s not me on the main photo . . I haven´t turned into a Maori Warrior! After the excitement of Queenstown decided to chill out and do some normal sight seeing . . went on a night cruise through Milford Sound on the west coast - beautiful fiord national park area and as it has 10 metres of rainfall a year the mountains have an abundance of waterfalls, it seems as though everywhere you look you see a new waterfall flowing from 100s of metres above. It rained quite a bit and with the mist rolling down [View Full Entry]

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WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YEAH YEAH YEAH Pretty much all I said on the skydive - you can see the vid on youtube, there's no sound due to the music rights but still a good laugh . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUTLpQYrJ4w Funny As Bro . . . Awesome! Kia Ora Am loving New Zealand . . got to Christchurch and spent the first couple of days looking round the city and went on a dolphin spotting boat out in Lyttelton town - spotted some Hector dolphins and the captain explained the way they catch fish and how they navigate through the water using the click sound [View Full Entry]

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Well the pommy curse struck again and following a long heat wave in Sydney the clouds formed and rain was scheduled for the next few days . . . soon as I got off the plane! After a great week up on the gold coast got back to Sydney and spent the day on a drive with our Roslyn, Eleanor and Garry round the coast over looking the city - went up to the The Gap and North / South End points where Captain Cook first came into Sydney. Good to see the city from a distance and we finished the [View Full Entry]

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Flying in and out of the cities on the east coast is fun as the planes bank hard to the left or right and you get to see all the rivers running into the land and the miles of beaches along the coast. . Flew down to Brisbane and got into a lively backpackers called Tin Billy, you could hear the music booming out about a mile away. Place was a dump though and I had an early night when they broadcast musical chairs was starting at 10. A guy fell in to the room at about 3am - thought it [View Full Entry]

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Wow! What a day . . . Started off on old sailing boat called Lalla at 8:30 and sailed out about 21 miles to the reef from Cairns centre. Crew were a good laugh and there was a good crowd from all over the world on board - all excited about seeing the reef . . especially the French and Japanese - once we got out to the reef the Japanese couldn't stop taking photos and jumping round and all the French girl could do was say 'ohh la la' every 5 seconds - seriously! It is amazing though - once [View Full Entry]

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After the rain, came the sun - no sooner had it finished lashing down the place was baking hot and with a humidity that makes it hard to breathe. Booked a trip up to Daintree rainforest and Cape Tribulation. Drove up Captain Cook highway and stopped off for a quick sail down Daintree river to see some Crocs in their natural habitat - seen a Croc called Scarface, basically he ruled the land in a three mile radius and he looked mean. No feeding them here as it’s a bit too dangerous, he had a nice female croc just round the [View Full Entry]

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