ok ive been rly bad with my blog recently and so so much has happened. we've been venturing in peru for the last 15 days and have experienced so much awesome stuff. i will to give a brief overview so u dnt get too bored! so first few days were in puno and we toured lake titicaca, which included a homestay on amantani island. barney and i stayed with a lovely familt who barely spoke english but went out of their way to make sure we were comfortable. their house w...

We´re currently in La Paz. We have been travelling through Bolivia for the last week or so and its been pretty non stop. Everywhere we´ve been we say we´ll stay longer and relax but to be honest, it´s quite hard to relax in Bolivia!!! The coutnry itself is stunning and had amazing views everywhere you go, but life here is jsut hard work! The people are very care free and things are very run down. It´s defiantely an experience!!! From uyuni we went to Potosi...

I think last time I wrote we were on our way to La Serena...feels like so long ago now. We were only in La Serena for 1 night but that was enough. its a really small town. very sweet but not much to do. we spent our first day there on the beach and the next day was quite cast over so we went to the cinema. they have laods of english films here! locals must hate always having to watch films in subtitles. from there we went up to San Pedro de Atacama which is in t...

Been quite a crazy week! We have changed our plans and decided to go to La Serena back in Chile from Mendoza. The bus only leaves on Sat so we had untl then to discover Mendoza. We met up with Richard and his friends on Mon. Was so good to see him and catch up on so many funny stories from travelling. As we´ve been following a similar route it was interesting to hear different opinions of places and different things each of us has done. On Tuesday, we went o...

We have arrived in Mendoza alot earlier than expected. We went onto Pucon from Bariloche in hopes of climbing the volcano (well Barney hoped too...I was pretty scared!). So back into Chile we went only to find that the place was deserted when we got there. Pucon hadn´t been affected by the earthquake but it seems as soon as it happened, all the tourists got very scared and fled the town. Apparently it was a packed, really lively town, and the next day it was dea...