Arriving back into Chile was a bit of a shock to the budget. Especially in San Pedro, the most expensive place in Chile. But I was only only here for 2 days and I couldn’t be bothered worrying too much. There’s not much to the town, little narrow streets all made of mud. Dry, dusty and […]

Uyuni is a small town pretty much only is existence because of tourists starting their Salar de Uyuni tours. And that’s what we were there to do. There are a million companies running the 3 day jeep tour which ends up in San Pedro in and there are lots of stories of bad companies with their […]

Its been awhile since I’ve updated this so I’ve got a bit to write because have had a great week! After getting back from the Amazon I jumped on a night bus (my favourite) to head to Potosi which is further down south. After 10 hours of little sleep and almost getting attacked by dogs when […]

Since everything in Bolivia is cheap I thought I would splash out and fly  up to Rurrenabaque which is in  the Bolivian Amazon. Its only a 1 hour flight but a 17 hour bus journey….so I didn’t mind spending the extra cash. After mountain  biking getting up at 5am to get to the airport for a 7am flight […]

OK, I´ll be honest, I pretty much only did this because it sounds cool. I haven’t really been mountain biking before and I don’t really like going fast down hills on small unsturdy things like bikes. But there I was at the top on this hard core mountain bike dressed like I actually know what […]

Bolivia is so cheap, its good times. I spent yesterday just walking around the city, its pretty full on. Yesterday was palm Sunday and there was this big market on the main street. I saw probably the coolest band in Bolivia…well I assume they were cool as all the hip kids were there on bmx´s singing […]

The last 2 days have been filled with buses, and taxis and vans…I left Cusco early Friday morning to get to Puno which is by Lake Titicaca. The bus ride was interesting and I sat with these 2 super hippy Canadian travellers, they didn’t go to Machu Pichu because it was too touristy instead went off into […]

Our Inca trail started and ending a bit differently than most, but was in essence the same and I made it! for those of you who don’t know anything about probably the most famous trek in the world. Its a 4 day trek through original inca trails and ruins ending up at Machu Pichu the […]

I’ve been recovering from my rafting trip, still have a few bruises but they look impressive so it makes me seem more hard core! Anyway I have had a great 3 days in Cusco before heading off to the Inca trail tomorrow! I came to Cusco a bit earlier and was worried I was spending to […]

Well as I mentioned in my last post my arrival into Cusco wasn’t the best, spent about 1/2 an hour almost passed out in the bus station, think it was the altitude combined with lack of sleep. Thankfully a group of English backpackers made sure I was OK and together we got a taxi into […]

I arrived safely in Arequipa after a taxi ride, a plane ride, another taxi, a random’s car and a bus. Left Santiago at 4.50am and arrived in Arequipa at 10pm.  A long day. So I really just wanted to find a bed and sleep, I had the name of a youth hostel that sounded cheap […]

I’m currently sitting in Tacna, Peru wasting a bit of time until my bus leaves for Arequipa. Had a pretty crazy day, getting up at 4.50am to catch a flight, not really having any idea about what I was going to do when I got off. I flew to the top of Chile then needed […]

Well I arrived, safe and sound. After a very long flight I’m finally here. Meet up with another 5 people at the airport that were all heading to the same hostel so that was good and have been hanging out with them most of the day. We just went for a big walk around town. […]

yes…its really is the most exciting time of planning my trip, buying boring stuff and getting injections. I hate the idea of taking lots of pills but I guess it’s all good in the end. Anyway, I am leaving really soon! I’m attempting to make the most super awesome website ever but my computer skills […]

Welcome…I’m Arnika Willow Knight, hippy love child of my lovely parents Jane and Paul. Usually residing in Christchurch NZ, which is actually a great city in a great country despite what it may seem as I am either a) not there, or b) trying to leave. I decided to take a year off from uni and […]