It was only a matter of time until we noticed the little tin robotic style motorized taxi scooters zipping people around town. They almost didn't look real and resembled a children's toy car that had been blown up in scale. We had only just crossed the border into Peru and already things were looking different… In the comfort of our trusty bus, we arrived in Cuzco about ten hours after leaving the little town of Copacabana behind us. From Argentina to B...

Last night we returned from a five day trek along the Salkantay trail to Machu Picchu and today I am busting to write down this amazing experience. Machu Picchu was on the list of places to explore here in Peru along with many other travellers. It may be very popular on the gringo trail, yet perhaps there is just a very good reason for that. Machu Picchu is place that can be described with thousands of words, yet the trek there was just as, if not more amazi...

Here we are in the middle of the continent with no ocean in sight, no lakes, rivers or any sight of running water. This is all soon to change when we reach what is believed to be the highest navigable lake in the world. The largest lake in South America located on the border of Peru and Bolivia. This mass of water is so big that you can easily distinguish the splash of blue on the world map. We arrive in the small lake side town of Copacabana on another lon...

My first experience of La Paz was waking up in the morning still on a bus that we had caught overnight from Uyuni. We were so tired after an 800km journey over three days in the desert that catching the connecting overnight bus was not so bad after all. We slept most of the way and woke up in our destination feeling surprisingly awake. Well we were almost at our destination… Our bus had made it through to the outskirts of the city well on time, but a prot...

Uyuni and its surrounds is a place on earth so unique nothing else can quite compare! It was from this small town that we ventured off on a three day trip through the desert, where we would see surreal salts flats and endless picturesque landscapes more beautiful than we could ever have imagined. Along with four other travellers, our elderly driver, a boot full of food and water and our camera batteries fully charged, we set off on what was to be three of the...