When travellers arrive in Santiago from the air, a lot of the time they are faced with the decision of trundling north to the Atacama desert or heading South to the Lake district and beyond to Patagonia. My first port of call was to head west (well ok north west to be precise) and see one of the countries most important seaports. Haven't I made it so exciting for you to want to read on more? To make you even more enthralled, I have shamelessly stolen this from ...

This is my first blog entry from Latin America, a world so far away from good old home, in so many different aspects. I had only been there, and I realised straight away that it was so different. The plane journey which took under 11 hours was mainly bog standard. I set off at around 4:30pm from Auckland on the 19th of April and landed around 1pm on the 19th April in Santiago. Me singing Cher a few weeks on Karaoke "If I could turn back time" really d...

After my brief half a day stay in Wellington a few weeks before, I visited it again, and spent a fair bit of the time walking around the gardens and visiting Te Papa, the national museum of New Zealand. People say it is by far the prettiest city in NZ, and most people know it as 'Windy Wellington". It is not as big as Auckland, and Auckland to me seems to be the capital in all but name. As I have now seen all the places in NZ I intended on visiting, I thou...

It seems to be one of the most famous touristy things to do in New Zealand, so I thought I would write a fair bit about our little day adventure to Milford Sound, even if we did spend most of it on a bus. Not my idea of fun to be honest... A couple of us earlier on in the week were toying with the idea of hiring a car from Queenstown to Milford Sound, but in the end we opted just to do the trip through a tour company. The group consisted of a French girl, A Germ...

Little old Queenstown has come along way in a couple of decades, and it is now a model of the commercial tourism machine. It relies almost solely on the backpackers who want to do the adrenaline junky activities. Some say it is the adventure capital of NZ and the South Hemisphere, and some even go as far as saying it is the adventure capital of the world. That is probably taking a little too far though. With such a title, people are trying to think of every act...