After a week of exploring the island of Tahiti we are starting to love this place. Here is some of what we have learnt. Tahiti is the name of just one island in the French Polynesia group, an area of archipelagos that could cover Europe. Tahiti is a colourful mixture of French and Polynesian cultures. The Polynesians provide the beer, turquoise sea, black pearls and the coconut. The French have brought over the chic, the seductive, topless sunbathing, souped up...

And so the end is near, the time has to come, to fly away from South America. The continent will be fondly remembered for a six month period traveling around spending about a month in each country. Too many highlights to mention here, but Kat worked out we have taken over 60 long distance bus journeys covering easily more than 7000 road miles. I worked out our percentage of sanity lost due to bus journeys is about 10%. The plan now is to get back on the ocean. On...

The Inca Tinker Tailor Trail is actually more commonly known as the Inca trail. Its a 45km, four day, three night hike along an ancient Inca path. The trail passes many Inca ruins, climbs three peaks and finishes at the ancient Inca city known as Machu Picchu. It was the grand finale to Dans Peru trip. DAY 1 On Friday morning at 6:15 we set off on the bus for a two hour drive to the start, a place known as kilometer 82. When we got off the bus and met our guid...

We left Nazca and took an overnight bus to Arequipa. In Arequipa our taxi crashed. Everyone in Peru drives like a nutter. Kat always remarks it's a wonder they never seem to crash, I reply I think they do we just never see it. Our time had come. In the taxi from the bus station we approached a crossroads. There is no give way instruction or traffic lights, the rule seems to be who ever gets there first has right of way. Our driver didn't slow down and whe...

Pisco & Poor mans Galapagos The three of us bused it down the panamerican highway to Pisco and found a boat to take us out to what the lonely planet had dubbed the poor mans Galapagos island. For $10 we were speed boated out to an island in the pacific and watched sea lions sunbathing, penguins swimming around the boat, pelicans fishing, blue footed boobies strutting and smelt the heavy scent of thousands of years of rotting bird ****, mmmmmmm! The animals...