Uyuni and The Salt Flats
We drove into Uyuni on our small chicken bus from Potosi. Driving into Uyuni I noticed rubbish... rubbish as far as the eye could see scattered all through the desert. Beyond the rubbish there was [...]
Pucon, Chile
Heading out of Santiago we ventured south towards Patagonia, stopping at Pucon in Chile along the way. Leaving the sunshine and in-pool bar of La Casa Roja in Santiago was difficult. It would be the perfect place to [...]
Getting Dirty in La Paz
“In La Paz you will get taken for a ride” That's what a friend told me before I left for this trip. Now I understand. I'd go as far as saying that I'm a true believer, and [...]
Inca Trail, Machu Picchu
I’m exhausted. But I’m exhausted because I’ve been all different kinds of awesome on the Inca Trail for the past 4 days, so it’s a proud and special kind of exhausted… and the exhaustion is [...]
Surfing Betty – Playa Costeño, Colombia
There are often times when travelling when I've sat back and thought deeply about life... in fact, travelling is the time when this happens the most for me. Anthony had only been in Colombia two [...]
Route 40 Patagonia – Join the Joyride
This blog post is dedicated to the original Doughnut. You and your pink sun visor would have made this ride that little bit more special. Route 40, Patagonia, Argentina. The long and winding road... [...]
Copacabana, Bolivia
I took my first bus named Copacabana to Copacabana… how fitting. Little did I know there would be many more buses bearing this name on my South American journey. Copacabana is a small hippy type town on [...]
Ushuaia to Buenos Aires – The 52 hour Bus Ride…
Crazy? Yes Alternative options? No. I was at the End of the World after all... Ushuaia Argentina, Distance to here... Any sane person would take a flight. I'd take a flight, if [...]
Torres del Paine – Puerto Natales, Chile
Puerto Natales as a town is a small, relatively out of the way kind of place. There's not a whole lot going on there, and it's not the sort of place you'd visit for the [...]
