So, as promised, here comes Cusco´s blog. Unfortuntely I haven´t been doing anything particularly adventurous or exciting as of yet, as I have, most surprisingly, been feeling somewhat under the weather. I promptly got a cold on my arrival here (or swine flu, who knows), which isn´t helped by the fact that it is freezing at night-time, or by the altitude. The combination of these factors understandably gives me some difficulty in breathing. Other than that, th...

So I have made it to Peru, which is the country which initially sparked off my desire to go travelling...and it hasn´t let me down. I love it here. It´s so pretty, has a fascinating history and the people are interesting. The towns I´ve been to so far have been an odd mix of ancient Inca buildings and grandiose Spanish architecture, with perfectly laid out, tree-lined plaza da armas. If I could pick one word to sum up Peru, at the moment, it would be "cut...

Hola! I am preparing to go to Peru tomorrow. I am looking forward to it, as people have told me the craziness factor will be upped. Chile is too normal. I feel more at home in crazy places seeing as I´m crazy myself :) I need to get a collectivio taxi to Tacna across the border, then get a bus to Arequipa, stay there for a night and then get a bus to Cusco. I need to get to Cusco asap because I am doing my Inca trek on what I recently discovered is the 4th of J...

Hola!No hablo Espanol! This is the only Spanish I have learnt (apart from hello, goodbye, thank you, numbers, etc). It means "I don´t speak Spanish" (I think)! It is really difficult here as everybody speaks Spanish and practically nobody speaks English. I knew this before I came but I didn´t think it would be as bad as it is, and kind of thought I could bumble along like I did everywhere else. I suppose I am bumbling along really, I have only been he...

Technically I'm in Chile now but bear with me, I need to catch up on my last few days in New Zealand first. So...where was I? Ah, Taupo. So from Taupo I returned to the city which is literally just a place you go to get to someplace else; good old Auckland. I switched hostels because the last was too cold, and I was pleased to be nice and toasty at Nomads. I was less pleased when I was woken up at 6am by some drunk Swedish girls and I had the surreal experience ...