Panda about to leave New Zealand

This is the first post for Panda (Phil and Adrienne, p and a, we know this is a sad name for the site but you wont forget it or the email address!) on our travel blog. It is the night before we fly out of New Zealand on our 6 month trip to South America, Europe, and Africa. The basic outline of our planned trip in South America is below (I have only put South America as thats all we have planned so far). We hope to keep in touch via this Blog, email: pandaontherun@gmail.com, and will also be on skype when we can.

14th of April Chile
Easter Island
Punta Arenas

El Calafate (Moreno Glacier)
Torres Del Paine
28th of April Fly Punta Arenas to Santiago
Lakes Area of Chile around Pucon



6th of May fly to Quito, Equador



8th to the 15th of May Cruise of the Galapagos Islands
15th back in Quito
16th fly to Coca
16th to 19th at Sasha Lodge in the Amazon Jungle
Tena, Banos, Riobamba, Machala


Peru

Tumbes Mancora, Lima
28th of May fly to Cuzco
28th May to 6th of June Cuzco area
7-8 Puno & Copacabana



8th to 9th Bolivia and on to La Paz
Uyuni
4WD Salt flats tour



Overland to Salta Argentina
Around the 27th of June fly to Buenos Aires
Fly Buenos Aires to Iguacu
Iguacu overland via Curititba to Rio ariving around the 26th of June



Rio to London
July and August in Europe
September and half October in Africa
Back in NZ 18th of October