We had originally planned to head to Rio De Janiero for Carnavale but every other traveller we spoke to telling us that it is ridiculously expensive. So we made the difficult decision to can that idea, which was not as easy as writing it. We will definately make it back there one day! So in need of another destination for the festival we found it in Bolivia in Oruro. We're told that it is the second largest celebration of Carnavale to Rio and given that we p...

We pulled into La Paz for the second time but this time instead of heading to a beautiful 5-star hotel in a direct drop off bus, we put our backpacks on our back and hiked it for a couple kilometres to find our hostel. Turns out it was quite a nice hostel with a great rooftop bar to hang out in. We spent the first afternoon here on the internet and discovered that there was actually a microbrewery at the hostel. We took advantage of this and enjoyed really ni...

Leaving Arequipa turned out to be the start of 'The trip from Hell #2'. Firstly we woke up early to find that the water had been cut off in our hostel so we were unable to have a fresh start to our 2-day journey ahead. We left ourselves just enough time to pay our bill and catch a taxi to the bus station. Little did we realise that we didn't have enough cash on us to pay for the bill (rookie error...). I had to race out to try and find the closest ATM which t...

We left Huacachina aboard a 12 hour bus heading to Arequipa, Peru's second biggest city. It was a beautiful and scenic ride but thats not to say that it didn't scare the hell out of us! We drove along the southern coastline of Peru curving around the tall headlands which had sheer drops into the rocks below and crazy ocean. Sitting atop the 2nd floor of a double decker bus we looked a lot closer to the edge than we possibly were but we were close to telling the ...

We left Huacachina aboard a 12 hour bus heading to Arequipa, Peru's second biggest city. It was a beautiful and scenic ride but thats not to say that it didn't scare the hell out of us! We drove along the southern coastline of Peru curving around the tall headlands which had sheer drops into the rocks below and crazy ocean. Sitting atop the 2nd floor of a double decker bus we looked a lot closer to the edge than we possibly were but we were close to telling t...