It is midday and we have been awake since 3:15am this morning and it is very hot and sticky outside. We have arrived in Iquitos this morning on a very early flight from Lima. So early that it was not really morning, not really night, just a very strange time in the night to be waking up and heading to the airport. Our reason for this is to make sure we are on the next boat to Leticia, Colombia tomorrow morning, another early start with the boat departing at...

Three months has passed since we left home. This was roughly the amount of time we had first thought we would spend in South America. With our round the world tickets flying us about on our adventure far and wide, we thought spending three months in a continent would give us the right amount of time. With the flexibility of our tickets, we can travel on our path around the world at our own pace, just as long as we make the flight home before January 16th 201...

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...