Hola! This last blog entry has been a long time coming. I guess I didn't really want to write it as it is the last thing holding us to our amazing travels. But with Gen at work and me job hunting I guess the dream is definitely over and we should conclude the story of the final part of the most amazing 10 months ever! Last time I wrote we had just left the Galapagos, a definite highlight of the trip, and were sitting in a very nice hostel in Quito. We actually...

Well now. It has been all of 2 days since we left the Galapagos archipelago and we are still reeling from the excitement of it all. Thanks to a timely tax return, some good budgeting and a generous donation from my sister and her fiancé we decided that we had just about enough cash to get ourselves a last minute deal to those hallowed lands. We had spoken to so many travellers who had been there and told us how incredible it was that we were quite prepared to e...

After leaving Cusco we travelled, in our terms, quite quickly. That is to say that we went from south to north Peru in a matter of a few weeks (although this is actually deemed quite leisurely when compared to many travellers who manage to take entire countries in a week!). Our first stop was Arequipa which, as some may know, was the end of my career in the Army after a relatively minor kayaking incident in 2004. To be honest, the city hasn't changed too much si...

After months of waiting, it's finally time to conquer the Inca Trail... Day 1 As much as I enjoy experiencing new things and seeing new places, every time we go on an organised tour they alway insist on a ridiculously early morning. And the Inca Trail was no different. With the bus waiting for us at 0530am on Wednesday morning we walked down to the plaza to get on it and start our 4 day adventure. I must admit that at this hour I was not particularly excited bu...

Our bus ride from Copacabana to Cusco was pretty eventful. It was split into two, with the first bus taking us through a very easy border crossing and then changing at Puno, a small town on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca. The whole journey took around 11 hours and we did it during the day as we had heard bad things about the safety of the night buses. It wasn't until our second bus that things got interesting. When we were boarding the bus a Peruvian lady sta...