The Final Stretch: A Dash through Salta (26th – 29th May 2014)
It’s about time to finish up our South American story. So let’s go a few months back… We were nearing the end of May, and 94 days since we’d arrived […]
It’s about time to finish up our South American story. So let’s go a few months back… We were nearing the end of May, and 94 days since we’d arrived […]
It was undoubtedly the worst weather we’d ever experienced in our lives. For the first time ever I found myself wearing 2 pairs of pants! Not conducive to hopping out […]
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.” – Nate Saint. Friday, 16th May 2014 11h00 Our water bottle has been crushed […]
Where to start? We started right at the top, and rolled into Bolivia’s biggest city by bus from Copacabana – our first introduction being to the suburb of ‘El Alto’ […]
By some miracle we had managed to get through Puno, over the border, and all the way here. We were in the Bolivian town of Copacabana, on the shores of […]
The Bolivian visa situation has been a source of panic for me since…um…about October last year! JD’s feelings on the matter: chilled! (An example of a well balanced marriage I […]
It’s Thursday evening and we’re cruising along the Urubamba River valley on our train back from Aguas Calientes (the closest town to Machu Picchu) to Cusco. With the all-too-familiar feeling […]
Our blogs are trailing behind us a bit as we journey on, and we’re actually sitting in Bolivia’s biggest city of La Paz as we write this, but no matter […]
So unfortunately we were needing to rush across Peru at quite a pace in order to get ourselves to Cusco for acclimatization before the Inca Trail. Although Lima wasn’t quite […]
Surely everyone likes a pleasant surprise? Sometimes in this modern age of travel it feels like the internet and blogs and guide books take a lot out of the adventure. […]