Its been a busy few days, we’ve been to Uruguay and back!  I never ever expected to go to Uruguay but somehow found myself there on Wednesday!  Well worth the effort though, really cool place – much more relaxed than Buenos Aires!  We caught a ferry from BA across the river plate to the Uruguayan [...]

Yesterday we flew down to Buenos Aires arriving here mid-morning. For some reason I was feeling a bit icky – too much steak or red wine probably (we had another steak dinner the night before)! So it wasn’t a great trip for me, but at least the plane was more comfortable than some [...]

After a long day of travelling, 20 hours or so, we arrived in Salta late yesterday afternoon.  We left Uyuni at 22:40 on Friday night, we paid a bit extra for a seat that reclined to 45 degrees but it still wasn’t the most comfortable nights sleep I’ve had!  So slightly weary we arrived in [...]

We’ve spent the last three days touring the picturesque south west of Bolivia.  We wanted to see the Salt Plains of Uyuni and hadn’t really thought about anything else the tour might offer – we also went into the Eduardo Avaroa national park where the scenery was spectacular!
We left La Paz late on Monday night [...]

Yesterday Russ and I survived mountain biking on the worlds most dangerous road – and we’ve got the T-Shirts to prove it!  The day started early, we left La Paz at 7:30 in the morning.  We arrive at the top of the ‘Death Road’ around 8:15 where we were given our bikes (nice Kona full [...]

Yesterday we took a bus 4 hours west to Bolivia’s largest city of La Paz.  We originally had booked a bus for 8am, but we ´d been for a few beers in Copacabana the night before and the early mornings had caught up on us, plus there was a thunderstorm going on outside.  So after [...]

We been busy since the Inca trail!  Monday evening we caught a night bus to the town of Puno, in the south west of Peru, arriving there around 5am!  When we got off the bus it was cold, dark, and wet!  We’d slept for most of the journey and were a bit sleepy, but we [...]

Wow, what an experience!
The trek started on Wednesday when we were picked up from our Cusco hotel at 5:20am!  It was freezing cold (Cusco is at 3500m) so we were wrapped up warm in the llama wool hats, scarf’s and gloves we had bought!  After picking up the other people in our group from various [...]

Day one
We were instructed to be ready at our hostel for 5:20am, (yes AM!!!) this sucked as it was very cold in the erm, hobbit hole we were sleeping in. Never the less we arose and were ready for the pick up which to be fair Peru Trek were on time.
We got on a coach [...]

Russ and I have been having a cultural day in Cusco.  We been having a mouch around the town, down the many long narrow alleys that connect lots of squares.

We’ve visited three churches/cathedrals, two museums, and a market!  We’re a bit Jesus’d out now, all the churches are very nice – lots of gold and [...]