It’s about a seven hour bus ride from San Pedro de Atacama to Iquique. The TurBus bus was a little run down: no movie, the…

One of the most memorable parts of finishing the 3 day Bolivian salt flats/desert tour was the sudden smoothness of the paved Chilean road. The…

Instead of a 10 hour overnight bus ride, we opted for a 60 minute flight from La Paz to Uyuni. We crammed into a taxi…

It was a curious sensation landing at La Paz Airport; instead of the pressure increasing as we landed, we could feel the pressure being let…

First of all, we would like to thank you all for humoring us as we discover this amazing world that we live in. We are…

Opting for the slightly more expensive, but door-to-door service and air-conditioned MarSol van to Taganga, we arrived 4 hours later at Hotel Techos Azules. Taganga…

We arrived at the Cartagena airport and grabbed a 8500 pesos taxi ride to Hotel Vienna in the Getsumani district (backpackers ghetto) just outside the…

We arrived mid-afternoon in Medellin’s large, two-level, clean and surprisingly calm bus station. At the information booth, we showed the woman the address of Melissa’s…

At 7:10 AM, loaded with our big backpacks, we watched several sardine-packed trolleys go by before we decided to act like Ecuadorians and force our…

and the highlands were completely socked in with clouds, so we stopped in Riobamba to break up the trip to the Midal Del Mundo (Middle…