Well we're back in proper civilization! Many thanks to Ed and Seb for the message (and the expected sex photos(whats taking so long?))! Sorry to hear about aya's bag! Buenos Aires is everything it has been built up to be, i'm so glad we changed our plans to miss out chile and do Argentina instead! First of all let me say "3-2 to the EN-ger-land" oph how i enjoyed that! I have to admit to not watching the whole game, we saw the first half and thourghly enjoye...

Back to civilisation after a three day jeep tour from San Pedro de Atacama in the Atacama dessert in Chilli, over the border into Bolivia through the Salt flats and fantastic scenery to Uyni, South West of Bolivia. We spent two nights in San Pedro, aclimatising again, eating lovely food and staying in our own hut in the garden of the hostel, very expensive but we did think we would have three days of terrible food and no comfort on the tour. How wrong we were,...

Right then, what have we been up to? first of all we are both fighting fit again...touch wood! After the madness of Cusco we decided to go to the coast for a while, so we packed up and headed for Pisco on the Peruvian coast. It wasn't a very pretty place, to say the least, but it served a purpose and we went on alittle excursion to some nearby islands called the islas Balesteas. We were sold them as the "Poor mans" Galapagos...rubbish, for a start the galapago...

Well we were supposed to be going on the inca trail today but we are still here because of my tooth! As soon as we arrived in Cuzco, i got a real bad tooth ache in my wisdom tooth, thought it would pass after a few days, but it didn't. Turns out that it was so bad, monday morning that Ellen made me go to the dentists... just so happened that if i hadn't gone i could have been in real trouble! My tooth had started growing into my jaw, and the pressure o...

WE MADE IT!!!! Finally we made it to the fabulous ruins of Machu Pichu! Tues night I was indeed treated to a whole roast Guinea Pig, Cuy Horne, as they call it here. I was warned by the waiter it would take an hour, which was quickly filled with 5 local Peruvians and their various instruments playing the local Pan Pipe music and dancing in circles. When the beast arrived it was presented for taking a picture, whole with a tomato, parsley head dress, feet and ...