A Travel Blog by Katie Chavez
There are a lot more things to do in Alice Springs than you think, here’s what I got up to on my visit to Alice Springs in the Australian Outback… Well, what can I say – I didn’t hate Alice Springs. I went there fully expecting to. I had heard pretty much all bad things […] Read more…
I did a 3 day Uluru tour to Uluru, Kata Tjuta and Kings Canyon, and it was a great introduction to the Australian Outback. Here is what to expect on a 3 day Uluru camping tour… Uluru is a giant, red rock in the middle of a desolate desert. And I can’t say that the […] Read more…
After how well our first experience with Help X went, we weren’t as nervous about starting our second placement which was two weeks working on a vineyard/farm in Osoyoos. But if we knew what a Help X nightmare we were about to endure, we would have hightailed it back to Vancouver straight away. Osoyoos is […] Read more…
Well our first impressions of Argentina weren’t the best due to the countrywide bus strike and our trouble finding a hostel in Jujuy, where we ended up for our first night. Luckily things changed rather quickly. We didn’t see much in Jujuy, although we did walk around with our bags for over an hour trying […] Read more…
It’s expensive, it’s freezing and the days are long, but despite all of this, our tour to the remote South West corner of Bolivia was spectacular. The tour began with us meeting our tour guide and cook and the other two people in our group at the Tour Office, then we set out in our […] Read more…
So of course it didn’t end up being as straight forward as we thought it would be to get to Sucre in Southern Bolivia. It never is in South America. Our bus trip was terrible due to the fact that there is no toilet on the bus and the driver refused to stop until 1.30am […] Read more…