With the Inca done and having left us exhausted it was time to say goodbye to some brilliant people we had been living with on the trip for the lat week. Everyone took everyone else’s details and already the emails have begun flying around as people move around the world. Our net stop was to be Miami in the USA, in order for us to get there though we had three flights to get which would total two days travelling. The first flight was the one we had changed fr...

By now airport security had become predictable and routine to the point we were ready for the checks before the guards even spoke, however this time was to present a new experience. Having flown back to New Zealand from Fiji, in order to connect to South America we had to go through international transfers instead of the normal route. After setting the alarm off and the usual search and bag checks, David was still beeping with the body scanner indicating his ri...

It was dark when we touched down in Fiji, but a nice warm 20 degrees which was a welcome relief from the cold evenings we’d had for the last part of NZ. We had to stay overnight in a hotel as part of the Fiji trip, this was due to our late arrival flight but would mean we were fresh for the next day. The hotel was quite funky in a Fiji way, but a nice change all the same. Now our trip was 11 nights 12 days of Island hoping, therefore this time we decided to d...

After a good nights sleep by the beach we had driven to the Moeraki boulders, the boulders are 2 million years old and sit quite nicely on the beach in a row. The boulders are pretty much perfectly round like a big bouncy ball, but most have crack lines within them which were caused when the boulders were exposed to the atmosphere causing them to shrink. They still seem pretty big to us! The boulders originally sat inside the cliff face until it was washed away...

Dunedin, home of Cadbury world and the production place of almost all New Zealand's Cadbury chocolate, along with a few other places. Also home to some very steep streets which was immediately apparent. We worked our way through the maze like streets of Dunedin, eventually reaching our campsite. The day on the site has little to tell as it was a organise and sort day so we were busy but of the uninteresting nature. The following day was to be much more fun, espe...