We arrived in Mexico keen to do some sunbathing and get stuck into some Mexican food. After an extremely long wait to get ours bags (due to flights from Panama to Mexico being a well known drugs route). We finally got to Playa del Carmen and walked to our hotel only to be told our room wasn't available and we were being moved hotels. After our initial annoyance we found the new hotel was in a better location and the room a slight upgrade so we were satisfied. On...

After a short flight we landed in Lima, our final destination on this part of the trip. We hadn't heard great things from others about the place so weren't expecting too much. We choose a hostel in the Miraflores area, which we found to be really nice. We went for long walks around the area enjoying the nice weather and watched the hand gliders and surfers from the cliff front. We also enjoyed good food in Lima as well as visiting the local cinema and a modern s...

On the way to Cusco we needed to switch buses in Puno, which is on the northern shore of Lake Titicaca, just a few hours from where we've been. We get off the bus expecting to get straight onto the next bus to be told there is a strike on a stretch of road a few hours away and we won't be able to leave for Cusco until tomorrow. This slightly hinders our plans but as we don't really have another option, us and 4 other travellers follow this 'helpful' man who we su...

We set off from La Paz with an early morning bus to Copacabana which is the main Bolivian town on the shore of Lake Titicaca. Unfortunately our journey made was a bit uncomfortable due to me having a dodgy stomach and Helen feeding me pills and holding the sick bag ready just in case. We eventually made it without evening up the sick scores.... On arrival I felt much worse though and went straight to bed. This was to be a common theme in our time here as both he...

After a long, and very uncomfortable journey we arrived in La Paz. As per usual we got off the bus to collect our bags from the luggage compartment underneath only to find a guy had been sleeping in there. Very bizarre! We spent three fairly chilled out days in La Paz recovering from our recent trip, avoiding the rain and getting used to doing stuff at high altitude (the salt flat tour had been easier to adjust to as we were driven around most of the time). La P...