Nil and Tom Just a quick blog post to let you all know that we've arrived in Sucre and are very relieved to have left the dump that is La Paz! We didn't have any problems there, but one could see why it is considered such a dangerous city, as even the coffee shop we frequented had its own armed security guard!!! We think that, although Sucre is a UNESCO site, Luang Prabang, Laos's UNESCO site, beats it hands down for sheer beauty and atmosphere. We're relaxing n...

Tom: I understand that venting frustration is not the standard use of a travel blog, but on this occaision I can´t help myself. If there are any travellers/Frenchmen out there who find the task of washing their feet or their socks an arduous one, and for whom the idea of wearing rotting trainers without even a vague trace of an odor-eater insole seems like a good one, could you please for the love of God think twice before stepping into a confined space (i.e. a...

Nil: We made it to Copacabana in Bolivia after travelling for 10 hours in a moving ice box, which is a more fitting name for the bus we took! It was absolutely freezing for the entire journey, so cold in fact, that the condensation in the bus froze onto the inside of the windows! As you can probably guess the heating wasn´t working, but to make matters worse, when I asked if they could turn on the heating, they decided to turn on the A/C instead! Ooo, it´s all...

The Machu Picchu Blog Tom: Tourist information, guides and the internet had, during our trip and before, given this UNESCO site a rather elevated level of expectation. The overwhelming amount of tourists has meant that UNESCO have had to step in and impose a 500 person per day entry limit (300 trekkers/200 others), and only 400 of those could climb WaynaPicchu (the mountain behind the settlement in the blog image). This, cou...

Tom: We are now 3360m above sea-level, and Nil has just recovered from a pretty nasty headache, and I´ve stopped wheezing. Well, I say wheezing, it was more like an attention-seeking cough. The good news is that we´ve finally sorted out our Machu Picchu trek for the 7th, after months of negotiating with our Peruvian tour company. One minute they´d booked us onto our trek a month too early, the next they were applying for a special permit on our behalf to do t...