We booked ourselves onto a luxurious 16 hour bus journey from Ica to our next destination - Cusco. The seats recline to nearly 180 degrees and are wide enough to jiggle around and get in some good sleep, which is essential when we are travelling overnight. We opted for one of the largest hostel chains in South America, Loki, which is renowned for its party atmosphere. We figured that we had 5 nights before we were leaving for the Inca trail and it would be a gr...

We bumped into a British couple that Jeff had met on his 'most dangerous road' in La Paz at the airport in Rurenabaque and found that we were all heading in the same direction. So plans were made for the day that entailed us leaving our bags at a hostel in La Paz for the day so that a few hours could be spent wondering the city that we didn't really get to see as a result of my previous illness while in the city before the Amazon. We later caught a local bus wi...

The arrival to La Paz was at 6.30 in the morning after a relatively smooth bus ride without any sleep once again. La Paz is the highest capital city in the world at 4030m asl and is built in a massive valley in the shadow of a huge snow-capped mountain called Huayna Potosi. We both got onto the bus with very sore stomachs (which by now was something we were used to having in Bolivia), but Rome was particularly bad and was in no condition to stay at one of the...

Part of the risk that we took, having gone for cheaper flights to Rurenabaque, was that our flight only arrived just after 9 o'clock and our Pampas tour left town at 9.30! This left us a very small gap to try get from the airport to the tour office. We touched down at 9 on the button and lept straight off to wait for our baggage from the plane. We took a 10min shuttle into town and arrived at the offices at 9.28am (Cutting it fine by anyone's standards). We met...

After a non-eventful trip to Tupiza we walked to our hostel at 4:00am by the light of the full moon. We made a plan to meet at the Tupiza tours headquarters to finalise the arrangements of out 4 day tour at midday after a well deserved rest. We met our English-speaking guide, Archie and he went through our itinerary for trip. We went for an Almeurzo lunch which is a set meal of a soup, a main dish, a dessert and a drink with Ted and Sarah afterwards to get to k...