This weekly series focuses on budget hotel gems we discover while on the road. This week: Posada Ziga in Mazunte, Mexico.

Unlike the hippie/backpacker friendly Zipolite, the Mazunte locals still live very much off the land.

During the 1960s and 1970s a hippie counterculture began to congregate on this isolated beach and, thanks in part to the limited law enforcement, Zipolite steadily gained a reputation in Mexico as a free love paradise, which continued strongly into the 1980s.

Our Hotel Tip of the Week series offers accommodation tips from around the world. All are places where we have stayed in and personally recommend. This week: Casa Kreyenberg in Valparaiso, Chile.

After our six-month break, we finally returned to South America last week. Santiago was a quick stop before shooting up to the northern beaches to enjoy sun, sand and spring weather here in Chile.

Our Hotel Tip of the Week series offers accommodation tips from around the world. All are places where we have stayed in and personally recommend. This week: Bosque Nativo in Valdivia, Chile.

There is no question why NASA does test runs for its Mars missions here – the landscapes are incredible. One glance through this photo essay and the Atacama Desert will surely land on your Must See list!

We have never shared a picture of ourselves in our Polaroid of the Week series, but this week we’re sharing our wireless office here in Mexico! Now don’t get jealous…

This week I flashed back to where I was before leaving to travel, have a think about what that would have been like, and realize something that makes me happy to down to my core.

This week’s Polaroid features one of the many sea lions we ‘met’ in Valdivia, a small town in Southern Chile, this week! Check out this cheeky sea lion attack!