Ah Mendoza! Beautiful mountains, great restaurants & soooo much wine. On the first night we did our usual potter about town to explore. This include blood red fountains in the town square which were very cool (if a bit Twighlight) & some amazing views. We had a small (pint of) wine in the first place & continued wandering. Despite deciding not to do a restaurant on the first night we were suckered in by a place offering Tiramisu with coffee ice crea...

Leaving behind the culinary delights of Cuszco (oh & that world wonder thing) we were heading towards the Bolivian border & the town of Puno. En route we decided to change our plans & head straight to La Paz which only permitted a quick lunch stop on the shores of Lake Titicaca (teehee!) We had a quick picnic on the shore (of takeaway falafel from Cuszco of course) & admired it's beauty & made several childish jokes. Then we were back on the...

We arrived in Cuzco after a nice flight (more free stuff) with a fairly dramatic landing ("thats's meant to happen right?") The town itself is beautiful, if a little touristy. Lots of grand squares & small alleyways to explore all in the watchful gaze of the surrounding mountains. However there was an ulterior motive to our visit. We had heard rumours of an English pub that served, amongst other treats, Marmite! After a quick explore we discovered this myth...

After lots of intense planning (by Alice) we had a truly intrepid Amazon adventure roughed out. We were to fly into a small town called Leticia, which is the very end of Colombia which is only accessible by boat or plane & also borders Brazil & Peru, then organise an amazon trip from there. We would then cross the border into Peru, take a river boat up the Amazon to Iquitos, which is the worlds largest city unreachable by road. Very cool. We were tr...

After a couple more uneventful days in Medellin it was time to move on. We were heading south to the mountainous coffee region & hopefully finally the opportunity to bust out the jumpers again! There are 4 small towns in the coffee region & we hadn't really decided where we would stop but our end game was a ranch in the middle of nowhere, just outside a small town called Salento. After arriving at the bus station & discovering no buses only fairly e...