Planning for South America 2020

With just a couple of months to go until South America I have started to finalise things for this trip. This will be the first time I have been to the continent and have decided to make an appointment for the Yellow Fever vaccine. Although it is mainly Brazil that it is most common (which I am not visiting on this occasion) I have decided to get it as a precaution for Chile, Bolivia, Peru and Colombia.

A Google Earth animation preview of this tour can be found below:



I have managed to order 2 out of the 4 currencies online as they are not common ones some of them were hard to get hold of before reaching the country. I have got my hands on some Chilean Pesos and Peruvian Sol and will need to pickup some local Bolivian currency when I get there. As for Colombia I am in the country less than 12 hours so I can just use my card at the airport to get some food before joining a city tour. 

After this multi-country group tour is over it should take my total tally of visited countries up to 47.
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