Have a look at the picture below and see if you're able to find our new Wally... Good luck!
  

 

The day has come to say goodbye to Latin America and what a sad day it is. Yes we are really excited about the next stage of our journey but we are also feeling nostalgic about the many months that we have spent travelling around Mexico, Central and South America. No it hasn’t always been easy, like when we got robbed in Costa Rica, when we got stalked by a taxi driver in Peru or when our bus kept getting stuck in Bolivia, but it has always been fun!! Adventure is never far away in Latin America and it has been a great host to us since we began our trip on 7^th October. We can´t believe that we spent just under 6 months there, a month more than we even planned to. Although when you consider everything that we have done in the past 6 months it is no surprise that the time flew by so quickly….we experienced tropical heat to freezing high altitude cold, we snorkelled in the warm Caribbean sea and shivered on the summit of a 6088m snowy mountain, we swam with sharks and almost burnt our feet on flowing hot lava from a recent volcanic eruption, we climbed glaciers and volcano boarded down steep slopes, we visited ancient ruins and quad biked in Patagonia, we bathed in natural thermal pools and marvelled at the Panama Canal, we hiked in some of the most famous parks in the world and stayed in some of the most remote parts of Bolivia, we visited the most southern city in the world and also the worlds highest city, we got up close to wild Bolivian llamas and saw wild dolphins only feet away, we went white water rafting on grade 4 rapids and horse riding in the driest desert in the world, we saw pink lakes and white salt planes, we hiked in the jungle and in the lost Inca world, we ate fresh coconuts and mangos on the Caribbean coast and grasshoppers in central Mexico, we wandered among snakes and got right up beside some penguins, we were just miles away from the Antarctic and we stood at the centre of the world…..and that’s not even the half of it!!!! We have also met some great people over the past months, who of course made all of the above even more fun.

So its goodbye to Latin America, and New Zealand here we come…..lets see if the Kiwis can show us as good a time as the Latinos did………………….

Hola a todos,

Llevamos dos dias en Auckland-Nueva Zelanda y hay que decir que el cambio es radical. La gente, la modernidad de la ciudad, conducen al reves (si, a Izquierda, como los compadres de Annemarie...vaya tela). Nos ha sorprendido la diversidad de razas hay aqui. Blancos, Maoris pero sobre todo asiaticos. Habra que ver el resto de NZ pero aqui en Auckland me pregunto si no son una mayoria...
Enfin, ya nos hemos dado unas buenas vueltas por la ciudad y por las islas de alrededor. Mañana vamos a buscar el camping-car que alquilamos para las proximas 5 semanas. Todavia no sabemos que ruta vamos a seguir pero estamos emocionados con la idea de tener nuestra casita con ruedas y tener la libertad de conducir a todos lados. En cuanto lo tengamos colgaremos unas fotos de nuestra ruleta del amol...
Estamos al otro lado del mundo (ahora si que si!) pero no nos impide acordarnos de vosotros, familiares y amigos. Asi que os mandamos un abrazo a todos.
 

Bueno, ya estamos de vuelta! Tal y como os comentamos en el ultimo post, estuvimos una semana pateando por Torres del Paine con Dany. Fue la bomba. Teneis el relato y las fotos publicados en la página sobre "Chile Patagonia" a la que se accede desde la lista de paises a la izquierda de esta página. 
El reencuentro con mis padres en Ushuaia y las dos semanas pasadas juntos fueron geniales. Fue algo especial juntarnos con ellos en la ciudad la más al Sur de la peninsula de Tierra del Fuego... 
Hay que decir que Patagonia, tanto Chilena como Argentina, ofrece un sin fin de paisajes increibles. Lagunas, glaciares, montañas, rios, guanacos, .... encontrareis de todo un poco en las fotos que os dejamos en "Chile-Patagonia"  y en la página sobre "Argentina".
Ahora mismo estamos en Buenos Aires, recorriendo las inmensas calles que ofrece la capital. Mañana nos vamos a Puerto Iguazu para ver la cataratas. 20 horas de bus para ir y otras 20 para volver...
A la vuelta de Iguazu os contamos como nos fue...
Un abrazo de los dos.

Yes after a month without updating the blog, we are back!!!! We had an incredible month exploring the most southern parts of Argentina and Chile and also catching up with some familiar faces. First of all we spent almost a week with Antoine´s friend Dany, camping and hiking around the famous patagonian park, Torres del Paine. Although we had a few blisters by the end of it, the craic was good and the scenary amazing. Then straight after we said our goodbyes to Dany we got a bus to the most southern city in the world (Ushuaia) to meet Antoines parents. Excitment was high and a great two weeks were had by all. Seeing them again after 5 months was brilliant and the fact that we were all reunited in the most southern city in the world gave it all a magical touch. However there were more than a few tears when the time came to go our separate ways and here we are once again with our backpacks on. We have been almost 6 months on the road already so the time to change continent is drawing near, 30th March we have a flight from Santiago Chile to New Zealand. However we still have to live the high-life in Buenos Aires and visit the Iguazu falls before we say adios to south america...so watch this space.
Miss you all.

Nuestro primer terremoto!
Esta mañana a las 6.40, todo se puso a temblar, sobre todo Annemarie..."Pero que esta pasando? me pregunto asustada... No duro mucho tiempo pero estabamos los dos tumbados en la cama y no sabiamos si salir corriendo a la calle o si quedarnos ahi esperando. Al final no fue nada grave, un seismo de grado III en la escala  de Mercalli. Hoy salia en el diario local...Enfin, todo sigue su curso, estamos ahorita en Los Angeles y seguiremos bajando hacia el Sur.
Un abrazo a todos y gracias por vuestros comentarios, siempre nos gusta leerlos y saber que habeis estado por aqui siguiendo nuestro viaje.

Am I dreaming or is the bed moving?????
Laying in bed in Curíco (middle Chile) this morning at 6.40am I opened my eyes and swore Id never drink again, then however I quickly realised that I hadnt touched a drop of alcohol and in fact it wasnt my head that was spinning it was the bed!!!! So as panic set in I did what I usually do in a crisis, shout at  Antoine!!!    :-) ...... "whats going on?". Given the fact that the whole buidling felt like it was moving it didnt take us long to realise that it was an earthquake. Thankfully, just as our panic was starting to rise and we were wondering if we should get out of the hostel it came to a stop and peace was restored. Quite funny looking back now, however to wake me up, give me a good old fashioned alarm clock anyday! 

We are now in Los Angeles and making our way gradually to the southern end of Chile. It is the middle of the summer here and roasting warm so all is good    :-). A big hug to everyone and thanks to all of you who have put comments on the blog, we love hearing from you and knowing that your following us.