Originally Posted by
gringo
It's going to take you three days just to get over the jet lag from the flight to the opposite side of the world.
Have you considered Argentina? Minimal jet lag, Buenos Aires is beautiful, almost like Paris, and best if all, stupid cheap.
Santiago comes to mind as well. Lovely city, bit more expensive but still pretty cheap.
Have you looked into ZED fares between Buenos Aires and Santiago? I've done the Argentina/Uruguay combo before but I had to do a separate trip to Chile for Santiago...neither I did well from a time management perspective.