Alright Folks, Just a quick prenote. I have come down with a cold and my brain is not functioning at 100% so you will have to forgive any spelling mistakes or any lack of fluidity in the text. Since New Years we have not been up to anything much, mostly visiting cities and boring little towns. Neither myself nor Sharlene are much into churchs and museums and so have not really had anything to put up on the site for Chile. Upon entering Chile the tour ha...

Hi Folks, Apologises for the lateness of this postcard. We have been very busy uploading pics and having fun. South America doesn?t have the fastest connection and as we want to save our pics first that takes a long time. Plus we have to load them to the website and than save the originals to my brothers server (so we can bore you all with slide shows when we get back). As I can?t be bothered to write three separate postcards for Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, a...

Alright Folks, Fistly let me say that there isn't much reason to visit Bolivia or in fact Peru other than a few major sites. We were lucky enough to visit both that Bolivias have to offer. The first was the Salt Flats, quite impressive, but not worth coming all the way just for that. The second is the Potosi Silver Mines. The reason for visiting is due as much to the number of Bolivains that died in it (9 million) as how much siler was found in it. It is sai...

Alright Folks, Hope you all had a great Christmas and are getting ready for New Years Eve. We are in Uyuni to visit the Salt Flats and the Train Graveyard. The Flats are the highest and largest in the world, and have a depth of 50cm at the edge and 250m at the centre. It is belived to have been a massive lake that at one time was connected to the ocean and as the eaths plates moved the mountains rose and cut it off from the ocean and slowly it evaporated. ...

Happy Christmas Everyone, I hope you are all enjoying your Christmas Dinners and opening some really cool pressies. We are in La Paz in Bolivia, which is the highest Capital City in the World. We woke up and opened our presents around noon (we are on holiday) and at 3pm went out for dinner with the group. Sharlene got me some really cool stuff and judgeing by her reactions she really liked what i bought her. Sharlene also bought herself some shoes, well more...