So, we finally managed to escape from La Paz and experience a different part of Bolivia. Joe managed to catch the Flu at some point between Peru and Bolivia so we spent an unplanned extra couple of days in La Paz - with Joe lying in bed feeling sorry for herself and Mads out and about exploring the city a bit more. On Friday night we got ourselves onto a bus down to Sucre - the experience was far less traumatic than the journey out to Copacabana and we arrived...

The Bolivians are revolting! Ok, so maybe not 'revolting', but 'protesting' doesn't sound quite as dramatic! We were warned that the Bolivians liked a good protest and this had a habit of disrupting the best-laid plans, and 4 days into Bolivia we have experienced this already. The flight here, amazingly, went without hitch - Madeleine was convinced that the travel agent had not actually booked our flight as it took them an hour and a half of confused looks, and...

We have spent the last 3 days at high altitude surrounded by Inca history, and Madeleine, at least, has made the most of it. Cuzco sits at 3250m high, and we certainly felt it on the journey up here from Arequipa. Just walking up a flight of stairs or slight incline takes our breath away. The city is beautiful - cobbled streets and colonial building (yes, more colonial buildings) surround a main plaza, and the Andes surround all of it. After a day of chilling o...

We have spent the last three days in La Ciudad Blanca - or the White City - of Arequipa, relaxing, soaking up the atmosphere and hurling ourselves down a mountain on bikes. The city itself is absolutely beautiful. The official line is that it is named the white city because all of the buildings are made from white Sillar, or volcanic rock. This gives a dramatic effect in the city centre, especially with the snow-capped peaks of El Misti and Chachani towering a...

We arrived, bleary eyed into Nazca at 4am this morning with one thing on our minds - lines. We were lucky enough to find a tour company that offered flights over the lines but was also connected to a hostel - so we went back there to wake up, wash, have breakfast etc before taking an 8am flight over the Nazca lines. For anyone who doesn´t know, the Nasca lines are a series of lines and giant pictures drawn in the sands of the desert near Nazca. They are only ...