Ushuaia... the end of the world

Well annoyingly this is take 2 of this part, as we lost the 1st blog with a computer crash!

Arriving at the end of the world its not an easy task... We left Punta Arenas with high spirits & went via Cerro Sombero. With a great lift from there to the border it was going well until we hit a snag. The chilean argentina border. We thought it would be easy to hitch across the border but as we started to walk between no mans land, I realised "would i pick up a hitch hiker between borders of a country where you could be carrying drugs etc!"

By this time we had to walk 15 km to get to the other side in strong winds with our heavy bags and pulling one on a wheelie trolley, not funny when a gravel road and they even drove past fast so that a rock flew against my head (James), not impressed!

Still we managed to nearly reach the the border & got a lift a nice spanish person

....... to be continued

Punta Arenas

So it is up early for our flight to Punta Arenas. James is flying Sky Airlines & Mariana is flying LAN & we are both hoping we get on our flights without a hitch. James is a bit stressed as his line for sky airlines goes for miles and Mariana is on standby for her flight.

Still all goes well and Mariana boards her plane for a direct flight to punta arenas. Meanwhile James heads off on his indirect (cheap flight) due to arrive a few hours after Mariana´s!

The flight is amazing flying along the Andes and the weather is clear for some great photos on the way. Mariana gets there nice a quickly but little does James know that his flight is going via every airport in Chile on the way, which is very helpful as James doesn´t know that much spanish! Every time the plane lands I wondered where I was or whether I needed to get off.

Still got to Punta Arenas, which from nice tropical Santiago at 30C is about 10C! Bit of a shock! Still nice to see Mariana´s nice warm face :-)

Manage to stay in nice hostel/house (Mirador) but jetlag still with us so quick look round town then off to sleep before James collapses (no not really)!

Santiago

After 11 hours of enjoying Business class (and sometimes we wish there were even more as there is so many things to do onboard!) we arrived in Santiago de Chile, on the same day we left, strange!

And the first thing I (James) discover is that no one can tell us where to go so we have a tour of the airport!

We get into town & stay in Plaza de Manas which is really nice. We´re pretty tired, probably because I watched too many movies and enjoy the flight too much.

Still Santiago doesn´t have many highlights to speak of but we went to the main tourist attraction in town which consisted of a small castle on top of the hill in the centre of town. After a few photos and touring around that was the end of our v short trip to Santiago

A Big Thank You to Milena, again!

Well today we flew out together on Lan Chile for Santiago!

And a big thank you again to Milena as she now upgraded us to Business Class on LAN & very nice it was too! Flat beds and massive TV Personal screen! And of course all the usual delights of business class.

We had the pleasure of enjoying this for 11hours!

So where are we going?

First we are heading for Chile for approximately a month then off to Argentina & Buenos Aires, then on to Bolivia & Peru.

We fly from Lima to San Jose, Costa Rica. We then make our way up through Nicuragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, & finally through Mexico

We fly from Mexico City to Manchester in UK

We then fly on to New Delhi & travel through India before getting to Australia, where we will travel round trying to find a new home!

Well we'll try to publish some pics once we have some of the places we go to!

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A non starter for Mariana, well for today anyway!

Mariana managed to get her flight changed to fly on Tuesday 24th with James so we're both off then on our adventures together!!

We were already to try at the airport today but then thanks to Adriana & Milena, we managed to get Mariana's flight changed so now we don't need to rush.

Time to plan for our trip!

Well see you here later :-)

Not Long to go now!

Not Long to go now! Waiting to head off from Nelson for Auckland and then leaving for Santiago on Sunday 22nd!