I had a late flight into Rio from Lima, and spent the night there before catching a bus and then a ferry to Ilha Grande to meet Jo and Charlotte who had caught a flight out before me, and also managed to get a direct flight, which I couldn't do being on my round the world ticket. I met a really nice danish couple - Amanda and Marcus - who are living in Rio for 4 months studying music - he's a drummer and she's a singer. They gave me the low down on Rio and Braz...

After 2 nights with Katie, Tom, Andreas and Anja in Chile it was time for 7 to become 3, and we said good-bye to everyone. It was really weird to go from so many people back to just the three of us - but it did make choosing restaurants easier! So we caught another overnight bus and a half day bus - it was a long time - to Arequipa, a beautiful town in southern Peru, where you can go to a Condor canyon and do some hiking. We only had one night there, so we didn'...

So after a funny day in La Paz, where Jo and I were sleep deprived and Jo managed to fall down in the street, fall down the steps of the coffee shop we went to for breakfast and pull down a rail in an outdoor store (where there where people from the coffee shop who observed she wasn't having a good day) we headed off on our overnight bus to Uyuni, where we would start our Salt Flats tour. We have become expert bus travellers - we have sleeping bags, socks, eye m...

So after our night of no sleep, we tried to catch up on a few minutes on the seats at the airport while we waited for our flight from la Paz to Rurranabaque, which would be our gateway into the Pampas and the jungle. The flight was a bit delayed, which we were very grateful for. We flew on a tiny army or aid plane up to Rurranbaque - i think maybe 15 people could fit in the plane, and we landed on a sand runway. We were hit by a wall of heat when we got off the ...

So after a month's travelling by myself, Jo and I planned to meet in Miami on the 27th of September and travel through Bolivia, Peru, Brazil and Argentina together. The morning I flew out of Ecuador back to Miami, with the plan of meeting Jo there and then flying to la Paz, Bolivia, I found out that all flights to La Paz had been cancelled because of civil unrest and American Airlines wasn't flying there at all. I didn't know if Jo knew anything, so I flew to Mi...