The Blue Mountains are a mountain range in New South Wales, located about an hour inland from Sydney. Known by travellers country wide due to its beautiful and dramatic scenery it places high on the to do list of many if not all. The Blue Mountains national park is dotted with small towns, guesthouses and…
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Victoria to New South Wales Pit Stops
After two brilliant days in Wilsons Promontory the time had come to start our slow ascent up the east coast of Australia, firstly crawling along the coastline of Victoria (our home state for the past 6 months) and eventually making our way into New South Wales. As most travellers or visitors to this huge country…
Wilsons Promontory
Wilsons Promontory is arguably Australia’s best known national park and home to the southernmost point of the mainland Australia. It was also the second port of call on our East Coast road trip, after Phillip Island (which you can read about in a previous post). Leaving the aforementioned Phillip Island on fairly grey and cold…
Phillip Island-First stop on the East Coast!
When you’re travelling you’ll encounter a lot of friendly people, maybe spend a night with them or even share a remarkable journey, although a lot of the time these people will live in foreign lands far from the place you call home, therefore it’s unlikely you’ll physically reunite. However in some circumstances, a bond you…
Exploring Rio’s Favelas
Rio de Janeiro is a fantastic city with much to boast about, the famous Copacabana beach, the largest carnival in the world, Christ the Redeemer a new wonder of the world, just to name a few that generically spring to mind. Ranted and raved about by tourists, adored by locals and lets not forget the…
Christ the Redeemer
Rio de Janeiro is famous worldwide and it is also where we decided to dedicate the majority of our time here in Brazil, specifically we made a massive detour within our travel route so we could tick ‘Rio carnival’ off the bucket list. After 7 nights in one location it begins to feel normal and…
Valparisio; graffiti, steps & funiculars
A relatively small port city located two hours west of Santiago, Valparaiso is steeped in history and in geography. Rising up from the ocean side are numerous hills that make up this once famous and extremely important South American port which has been a UNESCO world heritage site since 2003. It’s these hills where most travellers…
Paraty…no we haven’t mis-spelt party!
Continuously people back home were mistaking the spelling of this luscious Brazilian town, and thinking we were repeatedly at a party and our iPhones were just coming up with even more bizarre auto correct offers than usual. In contrast to their images of us attending multiple pre carnival raves somewhere in the country, we were…
São Paulo
Our first stop in Brazil was the continents biggest metropolis.. São Paulo. We landed the day before Jonny’s 24th birthday and for that reason we had booked a nice hotel before even leaving the UK for our three days here. Quickly collecting our baggage we headed out into the sun – oh no, sorry wait,…
Santiago
Arriving in Santiago filled us with more happiness than we had ever expected upon reaching this destination on our itinerary. This was of course because we had swerved a 30 hour bus journey and instead arrived in less than two hours by plane from Arica. Absolutely thrilled with our decision we hopped in the airport…
Arica – First stop Chile
Chile was somewhat of an unknown to us. Not knowing many people who have ventured to this part of the world, coupled with the fact that it is often overshadowed by its neighbouring nations (except for the obvious region of Patagonia) meant that we were both intrigued and also slightly sceptical about what to except….
Huacachina – Desert Oasis & Sand Skiing
Huacachina is a desert oasis on the west coast of Peru and raved about by backpackers, so we were intrigued to see what the hype was all about. We got a bus to the city of Ica and then hopped in a taxi which surprisingly arrived in Huacachina just 10 minutes later. It is not…
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