At last, a picture which is location-suitable. Excellent. Am writing this from El Calafate, but should start by summing up my last few days in Buenos Aires. The day after my last post, I headed out relatively early (by Buenos Aires standards - 1pm) to Palermo, a rich area in the centre of the city. Palermo is beautiful, and very like London - sprawling streets filled with shops (including a Barbie shop, eat your heart out Kat) and restaurants, dotted with vast g...

So the last few days have passed in a bit of a haze. Without the assistance of my handy dandy diary, which ive helpfully left upstairs, I cant quite remember when anything happened, but will attempt a guesstimate anyway. On Wednesday I took myself off to Recoleta. Recoleta is a rich area of BA, most famous for its cemetary (which sounds quite weird really). I started the day with a visit to El Ateneo Grand Splendid - a huge bookstore set in an old theatre. Its...

Another huge fail on the photo - how can there not be a photo from Buenos Aires?! So rocked up to Buenos Aires on Saturday 13th and instantly fell in love with it. The city is absolutely beautiful, with completely stunning 1920s architecture evidencing the wealth that used to flow through this place. It's also incredibly warm, which is definitely a nice change after Peru! On the night I arrived there was a Valentine's Night party in the hostel, so after meeti...

Ok folks, it´s gonna be another long one... Shortly after my previous post, i transferred to my new hotel and found out that in fact the trek was going ahead as planned, making me wish I´d had a lot more sleep and a lot less Cusquena beer over the preceding days. After a quick brief with the tour leader, in which I found out there would only be 3 of us trekking, i got an early night and prayed that I wouldn´t be affected by the altitude over the next few days...

So arrived in Cusco a few days ago. Managed to completely mess up my connecting flight by going to International Connections for a flight within Peru... error. Ended up spending 16 hours in Lima airport, where there is literally nothing to do. Not ideal. After a very long wait, I managed to meet someone in the airport who was going to the same hostel as me, so that was pretty awesome. Even better was that he could haggle in Spanish, so we managed to get an incred...