Being pretty unenthused by the overrated backpacker area of Taganga, we booked ourselves up to head straight out on the next lost city trek. After much running around and debating we decided to go with Sierra Tours (who we were ultra happy with and would recommend to anyone over the bigger tour companies). We spent our five day trek with an Irish couple, who made the trek great fun and it was one of the most enjoyable 5 day trips of the whole year. At first we th...

After the hideous bus journey we finally arrived in Bogota in time for the weekend. We managed to get in touch with Catalina, who we met in Australia, and arrange to meet for a tour of her home city. Bogotarian local public transport was muy facil to work out and we met Catalina and her friend Carlos towards the north of the city. It was a fab day being shown around by them, especially getting to see very nice areas of the city that we wouldn´t have seen without...

It´s been a while since we last wrote and we are now, sadly, in our last country (we´ve managed to reach a count of 20 though!). Our last week or so in Peru was spent heading north towards the Ecuadorian border. On the way up we stopped at Trujillo and Mancora. We spent a couple of days looking around the city of Trujillo and the impressive ruins outside of the city. Two major civilisations were based around Trujillo - the Moche and Chimu peoples. After our gu...

Due to unfortunate circumstances we didn´t get to Rurranbuque in Bolivia for a jungle trip - but as we spent time in the Pantanal we think we only really missed out on seeing pink dolphins. In La Paz Pug took a trip out to the pre-Inca ruins at Tiwanaku. Although he quite enjoyed it and found it interesting they weren´t as impressive as some of the ruins we´ve seen since. The trip also gave him a good opportunity to take some good pics of the mountainous city ...

The Bolivian adventure so far....We left you last time in Brazil in the dire city of Corumba - where we seemed to have to wait forever for the train that would take us from Quijarra, just over the Bolivian border, to Santa Cruz. We had a relatively simple border crossing and the train journey - although a long 19 hours instead of 12 - was quite enjoyable (especially after they turned off the unneccessarily loud music videos with the spanish stud Marco Antonio Sol...