Only got one more day before heading back to New Zealand so thought I ought to have a go at a final blog entry. Was down in El Bolson last time around, laid up with a stomach bug. Now back in Buenos Aires, in between went out to the northern Patagonian coast before some long bus journeys had me up in the steamy heat of Argentina`s far north. On my last day in El Bolson, having barely seen the town and finally feeling almost one hundred percent, I volunteered to...

Hola everybody! Been in Patagonia for a month now so high time for another entry. Acually stuck in a little town called El Bolson at the moment with a rather unhappy stomach so this is a productive way to amused myself for a couple of hours. Good thing about traveling is everyone gets tummy problems. After a while it doesn´t feel weird discussing one´s bowels with complete strangers. Since the last blog I`ve flown down from Ecuador to Ushiaia, Argentina, ...

Hola good folks, Here we go again, was feeling pretty smug for being up to date after my last entry but I´ve now managed to neglect the blog writing for over a month. Now down in Quito, Ecuador. Got back here yesterday from from an amazing two weeks in the Galapagos to the news about Christchurch`s earthquake. Thinking of everyone back home. Was just about to drag myself away from the Carribean coast for the Colombian Andes last time round. Thirty hours of ...

Finally got this thing up to date, been hanging over me for ages now!Survived the Lost City, returning with an impressive collection of mosquito bites and minus about a thousand litres of sweat. Five days of walking had us walking up and down hills through the jungle, splashing and swimming our way across rivers and finally reaching the `Lost City`, a six hundred year old city that was rediscovered in the 1970`s. Tucked into the jungle way up on a ridgeline...

Really need to get this blog up to date, or at least more up to date anyway. Here goes...Had just arrived to Popayan for our first night in Colombia with plans to make it up to the Carribean coast in time for Christmas. Had a lot of ground to cover so really only visited a few places along the way. From Popayan it was a few hour busing up to the city of Cali. The self-proclaimed salsa capital of the world as well as being cheapest place on earth to get brea...