Stayed with my mate Richie from Aus and with my surrogate housemates Gail and Cass. Took a bunch of trips to Spain, scotland and czech rep

I arrived on the Ferry from Puerto la Cruz and headed to the biggest city on Isla Margerita (Porlamar) to get my bearings. Spent two nights there b...

Stayed here a night just for a stopover before going to isla Margerita on the ferry... spent most of the time looking for a bank that would take my...

Brief overnight stop in the capital after my flight in from guayaquil. Was a pretty difficult city to get around and very little in the way of tour...

to the beach in Canoa with Tim from Oz to try my hand at surfing again. Stayed at a cracker hostel called Bambu right on the beach... was all good ...

Headed to Monticristi with Tim to shop for a famous monticristi (or "Panam") hat. After reading in the lonely planet that you can pick up a super-f...

One night stopover... hit the town with Tim(Oz) and another Ozzie guy Chris. Was just like going out in sydney.... except for all the security guar...

Arrived in Puerto Ayora without a plan but did the rounds of the boat operators and soon got a spot on a 7 night cruise leaving on the 8th on YV Fr...

Arrived in Guayaquil after a stressful border crossing from Peru which involved numerous forms of transport. Apparently the 2 countries had a war a...

 

I wanted to fit in with all the extreme mountain climbing types hanging around Huaraz... but saying that I'd walked around a few mountinas (ie...

 

I arrived in Huaraz at the sparrow's proverbial in a bus from Lima on the 20th. Spent the day trying to get used to the altitude again - Huaraz is ...

Just had a 10 hour stopover between bus connections to check out the city. Wandered around the centre and bussed it to Miraflores to check out...

Opted out of the famous inca trail coz is was booked out till August... and got the train up instead. Headed up with Nick from the UK (previously m...

Arrived on a bus from Copacabana and bumped into Nick (UK - met in patagonia) on the street near plaza de Armas. thought about doing one of the tre...

Headed to Rurre in the Amazon basin to do the 3 day Pampas tour that a lot of travellers had been raving about. The pampas is kinda like some area ...

I set off with the company aptly named "Gravity Assisted Mountain Biking" to do the popular decent down the so called "Worlds Most Dangerous Rd". T...

Arrived after an overnighter train and bus ride from Uyuni. Teed up a mountain bike decent down the "worlds most dangerous road" for the next day.

1st Jun, Crossed the Bolivian border with the Great Danes (Niels and Tasja) who I met in Tilcara.. . Bussed to Tupiza that afternoon - not the same...

Arrived on a public holiday at siesta time so unsurprisingly it was all very quiet. The original plan was to go onto BA for a spanish course starti...

29 April: I took the 6am bus from San Martin across the border to Pucon. Arrived at the border in time to see on a snow covered volcano at the bord...

Back to Bariloche on the afternoon bus from El Bolson on th 26th. Did the Circuito Chico mountian bike ride (about 65km from Bariloche around Llao ...

This town (same latitude as Hobart - 42 South) has an amazing backdrop of a granite mountain ridge covered by landslides and trees of all shades fr...

After disembarking th Navimag at Puerto Montt, Sarah, Andrew, Nick and I jumpd on th first bus accross the border to Bariloche, Argentina. Great to...

I arrived in Puerto Natales to board The Navimag ferry "Puerto Eden" and met some of the crew from Torres. Sarah and Andrew from Melb were having a...

Town of the Straights of Magellan (Estrecho Magallanes). Did some seriious relaxation at Hostel Bustamante which had cable TV so I could catch up o...

Plan was to stay here until the Navimag ferry departs to Puerto Montt but after discovering that the ship was delayed a day, I decided to move onto...

4th April: Took the bus to Rio Serrano (Park Admin) to start the walk with Andrew (pom with the same plans who I met in Puerto Natales). Got to Cam...

Back into Chile to prepare for the Torres del Paine bushwalk. Ended up buying a lot of gear coz hiring is expensive in Chile. Turns out I shouldn't...

Bussed to El Chalten with Eva and Han - who had appeared out of nowhere at the razor stand at the supermarket in El Calafate. Sleepy little town lo...

Arrived at El Calafate on a flight from Ushuaia with my hostel buddies Laura (Arg) and Eva (Swiss). We soon met a third Ushuaia hostel buddy Michae...

One of my favourite places so far. El Fin Del Mundo (the end of the world) they call it and they're not wrong. It's the furthest south city in the ...

Stayed at Palermo this time for a change of scenery. The town was swimming with Irish and Irish band-wagoners for St Pats day so I got in the festi...

Arrived after a 20 hour bus ride at the home town of Chez Guevara. There wasn't much going on mid week except for a hockey tournament between the w...

Visited the Argentine side of the falls on the 13th Perfect weather for it and had a swim at a waterfall off the beaten track.

I arrived in Foz do Iguazu early morning after an overnighter from Florianopolis. I did a quick trip out to the Itaipu dam. Damn impressive (sorry ...

After another overnighter on the bus from Sao Paulo, arrived at Barra da Lagoa on Isla Santa Catarina near Florianopolis. More awesome beaches... s...

Transited through Sao Paulo for a day between 2 overnight bus trips. Enormous city and seems to have a bit more style than Rio. Got re-...

On to Parati with Han, Christos, Alice and Kate (3 Poms). Seems we arrived for the town's anniversary party and there was a big ho-ha with live mus...

Beautiful mountainous tropical Island and great recovery time from carnival. Took a boat cruise and walked to Lopez Mendez beach. Few tech dif...

23 Feb: Met up with Errol (Pom form Hostel in BA) and we headed out to a street party in Lapa. All sorts of dancing in the streets and we had our f...

Han and I figured we'd need a wholesome break between the Stones' concert and Carnival, so we headed to Saquarema - a little beach town about 100km...

I flew into Sao Paulo and took a snappy overnight bus to Rio... no time to waste to get to the free Rolling Stones' concert on the 18th. I met up ...

Now this is more like it! BA does everything better than Santiago... the food's better, there's less smog, better night life, it's more developed, ...

First impressions of Chile on arrival were that the Chilaens really need to work on their public image. Santiago is an amazing city in some areas b...