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 […]
Road Tripping, Bolivian Style: Our Uyuni Salt Flats Tour (23rd – 25th May 2014)
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 […]
A Jungle Journal: Our Adventures in the Amazon (16th – 22nd May 2014)
“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 […]
La Paz: This is Bolivia (14th – 16th May 2014)
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’ […]
Copacabana and Lake Titicaca: Good Vibes! (11th – 14th May 2014)
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 […]
Crossing the Bolivian Border (11th May 2014)
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 […]
Cusco and Machu Picchu: Our Meeting with the Incas (1st – 10th May 2014)
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 […]
Lazy Days in Lima (28th – 30th April 2014)
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 […]
Huacachina: Dune Town (27th – 28th April 2014)
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 […]
Arequipa: Cooking, Condors and the Colca Canyon (22nd – 26th April 2014)
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. […]
