Hey all, It´s been a while since our last blog entry and we´re actually in Santiago, Chile now which is a really cool city and well worth a visit. So, we´re here for a few days until we catch our flight to New Zealand on the 5th but we have been to a couple of places on the way down to here - one of which was San Pedro de Atacama. San Pedro is in the middle of the Atacma desert in Northern Chile and it´s the driest desert in the world- FACT!(mainly due to ...

Hey peeps! It´s been a while and we have been to many different places since the last entry so I shall try and tell you what we have been up to in a nut shell! So, after Machu Picchu we had a 12 hour overnight bus journey to Puerto Maldonado, then a 2.5 hour boat ride down the River Tambopata to a lodge in the Amazon with a company called Inotawa where we volunteered for 10 days. We couldn´t believe how massive and beautiful the jungle lodges were and the fo...

Hey people! Just thought I´d do a special blog after our adventure to Machu Picchu. So, after spending a few days in and around Cuzco visiting various impressive inca ruins we got on in a ´collectivo´(or minivan) and travelled the short distance to Ollantaytambo. The journey was beautiful with snow capped mountains in the distance contrasting with the yellowy brown colours of the hills we were passing through (distinctly different from Ecuador too). In Ollan...

Hi everyone, We have just back after our week at the beach so thought I would update the blog. This is Vicki by the way, Katie has been hogging the blog for far too long. You will probably notice the spelling and grammer is not quite as good this time lol! When we arrived in Guayaquil last weekend we only spent 1 real day exploring. Its an okay city but not somewhere we would come back to. They have a nice waterfront area, which has recently been improved ...

Hey Hey! For once the blog photo is actually of where we have been - Vilcabamba in southern Ecuador. After spending a few more days in Cuenca sightseeing we got on a bus to this quirky, hippy town. Vilcabamba is famous for it's longevity - lots of people apparently live til their 100. It's a beautiful place - the town itslef is nestled in the valley of the mountains. It's not a very big place but has a surprising number of American ex-pats living there and has ...