Okay so here it is, the LAST blog! 21 blogs later and I can't believe that I am coming home this evening, in one way the time has gone so quickly and on the other hand it feels as if I haven't seen everyone for years! Well, what have I been up to in my last week? nothing too exciting but I'm going to blog it anyway! So after leaving Arequipa we headed off to Nazca, home of the famous Nazca lines. We had another horrid night bus to get to Nazca and our rooms in t...

Buenos dias from sunny, sunny Arequipa! I'm enjoying being back near the coast again and away from the cold mountains...a week of sunshine to send me off before I go home. So this is probably going to be THE Inca trail blog as I have lots to write about how I actually survived the epic journey. Before setting off for the Inca trail we had a stopover in a small town called Ollantaytambo. The town had its own mini Inca ruins but it was obvious that it was mainly ...

So, I've finished my stint in Bolivia and now have five settled days here in Cusco - a luxury after moving about constantly for nearly two months. I only had ten days in Bolivia but loved every single one of them! Last time I wrote we were going to Potosi... The first thing that struck me about Potosi was the alititude. It was crazy, climbing up a flight of stairs was enough to make you feel like you had run a marathon. In fact, turning over in bed was enough to...

So after all the fuss and full-on-ness of Carnaval in Rio I've finally joined my GAP adventures group and started my tour across the countries of Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. The pace of the tour started off really slowly but it was great to see some really beautiful and lesser known parts of Brazil. In the space of a week we traveled to a tropical island, saw some spectacular waterfalls and spent an afternoon fishing for Piranhas! Ilha Grande, our first stop, w...

Hola Senoritas and Senors from sunny South America. It´s nearly been 7 months since I left home and now I´m embarking on my last big adventure and it´s across a whole entire continent this time! I really don´t do things by half that´s for sure. So two weeks ago I left sleepy little New Zealand on a flight to Santiago, Chile. It was an 11 and half hour flight and I was dreading it but it actually went really quickly. I must be getting used to this flying mala...