DAY 1

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Departed from Auckland airport at 1630 hours on our flight to Lima (Peru), with a stopover in Buenos Aires. The first leg of the journey took 12 hours, with a 6 hour transit in Buenos (where we realized that no one spoke any English at all!!) We had a good laugh on the plane as we had on actually planned the trip as well as we could have. We roughly knew where we were staying on any given night. After the exhausting 6 hour transit, we started the second leg on the journey and arrived at Lima airport at 2300 hours, the journey had been about 5 hours. Managed to get some pictures on the Andes mountains while flying over Chile. Anshu collected her suitcase at the airport, only to find that the suitcase had been damaged and she could not extract the handle to be able to wheel the bag. At this point we were tired, hungary and sleepy - so she lost her temper and started throwing the bag around and performing, which in turn made me laugh and want to pull the camera out (I decided not to in case she threw something at it). No one there to pick us up after we had organised accomodation with free airport pick up. After a phone call and speaking Spanglish we finally had someone arrive and pick us up and take us to our backpacker in Miraflores. We crashed out.

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Photos

The snow covered Andes
The view from the airplane was breathtaking.

The worst airline
Yes...Aerolinas Argentinas!!!

Anshu & I
In transit at Buenos....dead tired but feeling excited about the adventure about to unfold.