Merry Christmas everyone. Please see attached video not to be opened before 25th December! Love George and Lindsay [View Full Entry]

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So picking up where I left off, the bus headed into the hills, and the tropical forests retreated to leave grass climbing up the these huge mountains, still covered in cloud from the rain. Soon the grass gave up; there were some cactus and some spectacular rock colours, and the road hadn´t even turned west yet! As we climbed up the road the cactus started to thin out, leaving only rock and mud. But what rock! It was sculpted by the wind or deeply cleft by water, and then amazingly, the hills started to green up again - a spiky grass [View Full Entry]

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So I find myself leaving Argentina with some mixed emotions - i've had some fantastic times here, with some fantastic people, and now the voyage into the unknown begins. The stories of bolivia and peru don't fill me with confidence, either! Since i'm not relying on Argentine hospitality any more, I thought i'd write a little about the falklands; it seems to be a national obsession; there are airports named after them, monuments everywhere, stickers in cars and signs. In point of fact, within an hour of waking up on my first day i'd seen a roadside sign saying "the falklands [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in San Pedro from one of the longest straight downhill roads I have ever been on (well not one of - it was the longest) about 40 minutes driving straight down at a decent angle, there were plenty of emergency exits, a few crosses marking the road and a driver that yawned too often, so I didn't feel comfortable taking a nap on that trip. Chilean border formalities are a little longer than others but we made it to dusty San Pedro around midday. The town is a small oasis, no paved roads, just dusty streets and a small [View Full Entry]

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On our last day in the Atacama desert we had the whole morning to do whatever we wanted to. I decided to go sand boarding with Lizzy, Sam, Sonni and Lindsay. I got up at 8 to eat breakfast and we had to be to the sand boarding place by 9. When we arrived at the place nobody was there and it looked closed but we were a little early. A guy that worked at the restaurant across the street knew the people so he called them to tell them we were waiting. A lady showed up pretty quickly. We paid [View Full Entry]

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Day 4 was an early one! We got a wake up call at 4 a.m. I yelled at Catie to answer it since it was by her bed. She was just going to ignore it. She answered it but then struggle to hang up the phone. It was entertaining. It was too early for hotel breakfast so I just ate a banana that I had. I had some Coca tea while we were waiting in the lobby for the bus so I wouldn´t get altitude sickness. I sat by Christina on the bus. It was a long, extremely bumpy, off-road ride. [View Full Entry]

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We didn´t have much to do on day 5. I got up at 9 and ate breakfast with Christina and Catie. After breakfast Profe Triana had a little chat with us and told us that we had to change rooms since we were too loud the night before. We had to be out of our rooms so they could be cleaned and we also had to wait for our new rooms to be cleaned. While we waited I walked to a store with Catie and Jess B. I got an empanada , some doritos, and a popsicle. We returned to the [View Full Entry]

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Atacama ja hiekkaerämaan ihmeet Mikä ihme voi ihmistä kiinnostaa ja ihastuttaa hiekassa, kivessä ja suolassa sekä kaikissa niissä kummallisissa olomuodoissa, joita nämä muodostavat kun niitä kertyy yhteen paikkaan runsain mitoin? Siitä piti päästä ottamaan selvää kuivimpaan paikkaan mitä keksiä saattaa, eli Atacaman autiomaahan eli A3 Tourin viimeiseen viralliseeb etappiin. Saavuimme San Pedro de Atacamaan myöhään illalla ilman minkäänlaista mahdollisuutta edes vilkuilla ympärillemme kun pimeys oli ihan täydellinen. Vain kummallisen mallinen kuunsirppi valaisi ympäristöä ja muuten [View Full Entry]

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We had to leave our hotel really early to make our flight to Calama. Our flight left at 7 a.m. so we needed to get to the airport early. We left the hotel around 5 a.m. I got up and made eggs for the myself and the girls in my room. Since we were leaving so early we had to miss the hotel breakfast. Since it was so early in morning there wasn´t any traffic so it didn´t take too long to get to the airport. We breezed through check in and security and soon were on our way to Calama. [View Full Entry]

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Day 3 I got up at 7:15 to shower. At 8 I went to get breakfast in the main building of the hotel. They had a really good breakfast. I had a banana, yogurt, toast w/butter, ham, and cheese, and some omelet. There was also juice, tea, cereal and lot of types of bread, yogurt and fruit. Everyone was really happy with the hotel breakfast. A lot of people made ham sandwiches to eat later. The bus picked us up for the archeological tour at 8:30. Our schedule said 8 am but I think they moved it back since we were [View Full Entry]

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