Travel Summary Length of trip - 5 months, 19 days Total mileage - 39000 miles (very approximated) Number of flights - 17 Countries visited - 10 Continents visited - 4 Number of beds (including night buses) slept in - 80 Night bus journeys - 10 Night train journeys - 6 Attempted mugging - 1 (Successful mugging - 0) Hottest temperature - 40C (Varanassi) Coldest temperature - minus 15 (south Bolivia) Highest altitude on land - 5000m / 16400 feet (Boliv...

Two hours on a rollercoaster bus ride later, we arrived in the quiet lakeside town of Guatape. Being the driest season in 25 years, the lake was totally dried up. However, we had a great week doing walks, swimming in the rivers and making our own meals, so we could avoid eating more Columbian slop. We went on a boat ride to see one of Escobar's many mansions. Its now bombed out and mostly destroyed as rival cartels tried to find his money believed to be stashed...

Leticia We left Iquitos very early in the morning by speed boat through the Amazon river and arrived in the town of Leticia, Colombia, 12 hours later. The border crossing was at the tri-border area of Brazil, Peru and Colombia. You can roam freely between the 3 border towns with no need for passports, you only need them if you go beyond the border towns. So we literally could have walked to Brazil for a coffee. Leticia itself was a depressing town, but lu...

Arequipa The city of Arequipa was our next stop, and was an overnight bus ride away.  The city is quite pretty but we really came here to visit Colca Canyon, some 5 hours away.  The canyon is over twice as deep than Grand Canyon.  We booked an overnight tour there, which included horseriding.  On the way there we saw lovely scenery, including volcanoes which are still active.  We spotted many vicunas, a bit like small brown llamas, which are protected ...

Our 4 day jungle trek adventure began with an early bus pick up from Cusco and a drive to the top of a mountain. Our tour group included 2 French and 2 Americans, so everything was "TOTALLY AWESOME" or "ZHUPER COOL". From here we free wheeled back down on mountain bikes. The terrain resembled Wales and it rained all the way down, so we got Welsh weather too. After attempting to dry out our sodden clothes, we went white water rafting. Our raft consisted of my...