I got back from the Inca Trail last night and am still somewhere between floating on a complete high, on another planet because of how incredible the whole experience was, and zombied out with tiredness! But I will just say this: after 8 years or so of dreaming about doing this, the expectations and build-up did not let me down one bit. There was no point when I wanted to be anywhere else (except, perhaps, half way up Dead Woman´s Pass when the only other p...

We´ve just returned (eventually) from an amazing week spent around Rurrenabaque in the Amazon Basin of Bolivia, visiting the Pampas and taking a trip into the jungle of Madidi National Park. It´s been a phenomenal adventure. Pampas first. They are basically massive wetlands with lush vegetation and supporting a vast amount of animal life. For 3 days we explored the area around our camp by boat. It kicked off with a 3 hour trip up river from Santa Ros...

Ah La Paz...it might be the best city yet. Sorry Buenos Aires. Actually that´s a bit of a close call...will have to get back to you... WHAT a city! Again crap photo, sorry, but I wanted something up there to show the mountains. It´s crazy here, the commercial centre (and, naturally, nice houses ad tourist zones) cupped in the basin created by the surrounding mountains - and they totally surround it, with the city spreading up the mountainsides like s...

So...first week in Bolivia. And wow what a country it is turning out to be. We´ve just got a few brief hours in Uyuní before getting an overnight bus to La Paz (local bus, hmmm, should be fun - we´ve heard Bolivian buses and QUITE up to Argentinian standards), but getting here has been quite an adventure. We sped through Salta much quicker than intended - as in, a grand total of 11 hours spent there, but most of them having a tremendous BBQ a...

(Firstly, sorry again about the irrelevant photo - not, in fact, Mendoza at all). Mendoza, Mendoza, how lovely you have have been to us, what a place for us to spend a good few days - but ah Mendoza, Mendoza, our livers surrender to you. It´s the heart of wine country. It wasn´t that all we did was drink wine...it´s just that we spent rather more time doing that than anything else. Caro and I had a day to ourselves when we arrived, and to our ...