Hi fols, sorry it's been so long since the last update but it's been a very busy few weeks. We finished our time in South America in Valparaiso, a costal town in Chile. Although the weather was more then a little rubbish we managed to take a trip up the very old 'ascensors' which are like trams climbing the steep hills up to the bohemian old town of Valparaiso. Here there were loads of boutique style shops and art galleries and there was arty graffiti adorning pr...

Hi! Well we finally arrived back in Argentina after a mammoth few days mostly involving long days and nights on buses! We spent our first day wandering around the city which is lovely, with wide tree-lined streets. The city is so pretty because following an earthquake which destroyed most of the city, the people chose to rebuild it with wide streets for rubble to fall in to and big plazas for evacuation points! It had a similar Europeany feel to Buenos Aires but...

Hello all, After Peru we headed south to San Pedro de Atacama in Northern Chile, on the edge of the driest desert in the world! We stayed in a really weird hostel where the owners, who were very easily in their 60s, sat smoking weed with one of their guests at 9am, in the kitchen. There was a mad grandmother there who sporadically screamed and the female owner had a rather unhealthy relationship to her cats. Rhys got called into another bedroom to admire the cat...

Herrroooo!!! After a horrific bus journey from Cuzco...the worst of our time in South America, we arrived in Nazca very early and a bit disoriented from lack of sleep! We were met and given a little time for a nap before being driven to the airfield. We were one of the first flights of the day and we set off at about 9am. It was a very strange experience, the plane was smaller than some cars I´ve been in and we had 2 pilots due to a crash a couple of weeks befo...

Hi everyone...brace yourselves, it´s probably going to be along one (with numberous typos,awful keyboard) We had one day in Cusco before beginning the Inka Trail. We had hired a porter to carry our main bags on the advice of 2 separate couples we´d met along our travels. We were the only ones in our group to do this and wondered if we were maybe being pathetic!We were a group of 11, all couples (apart from one man who was 57!) Rhys and I were the youngest. We...