From La Paz, Isla del Sol (Island of the sun) on Lake Titicaca is about a 3.5 hours bus trip away (including a small river crossing where the bus goes across on a barge and people go across on a ferry). To get to the Isla del Sol, its another 1.5 hours on the worlds slowest boat. Seriously, if we all got oars out I think we would have got there in half the time. It´s the highest attitude lake in the world and is so huge that it sits in both Peru and Bolivia. Onc...

This was the most amazing experience of my life, everyone needs to go to Galapagos immediately!! I am definitely going back. Day 1 Another early start, we were out the door at 5:30am!!! to start the 2.5 hour plane ride to Galapagos. We are on a 16 person boat, which I think is one of the smaller ones here and our group is 6 Aussies, 5 Canadian, 3 Peruvians (although they now live in Australia) and us. So far so good. Day 1 we set ourselves up in our rooms...

From San Jose, we flew into Quito where we would spend a day before going on to Galapagos. We had one full day in Quito, there was quite a bit to do so we hired a private guide (fancy, eh?). Our guide was a nice middle aged man from Quito. We spent the morning travelling out to the equator line. The Equator is about an hour from Quito and is quite an interesting trip. Our first stop was the 'Mitad del Mundo', or Middle of the World as measured by French scienti...

As our Amazon tour was cancelled we had a week free so decided to head into Panama. We went to a provence on the Carribean coast called Bocas Del Toro which is famous for its beautiful beaches. To leave Costa Rica we had to stand in line for about an hour carrying our huge backpacks in 30+ degree weather. This is when you start to realise you have overpacked. That was painful enough, but we get to the Panama side and the line is huge - hundreds of people and th...

It's hard to believe we are even in the same country as we were 2 days ago. Puerto Viejo feels more like you are in Jamaica than Costa Rica. There are rasta guys everywhere, jerk chicken at every turn, market stalls lining the beach, and reggae music being played from bars along the beach. Our first day we hired bikes and rode along the main beach road, which connects 5 or 6 beach towns and it's dotted with nice little resturants and bars. It was about 12km long...