Hello everyone, we've made it across South America in one piece! Arrived in Rio yesterday after a 25 odd hour bus journey from Iguassu. Since we last wrote we spent a few days in the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires. It's a very big European style city and we just spent the days wondering around taking in the sights. We also visited the football stadium of Boca Juniors, a famous Argentinian side and had a tour of the place. The stadium is a bit of a crumblin...

Hi, we've now arrived in Argentina and the north west city of Salta. We had a great trip through Bolivia without any serious incident visiting some amazing sights on the way. If we thought it was cold in Peru, then we got a shock when we arrived in the town of Uyuni, a dusty crumbled old mining town high up in the Bolivian plains. We arrived in the middle of the night and tried to save some pennies staying in a cheap hostel. Big mistake, it was so cold that your...

Hi everyone, We made it back safely from the four day walk to Machu Picchu, albeit a little smelly and half frozen from sub zero temperatures at night. It was an amazing experience and one of the highlights of the trip. We started the trek on the 11th and spent the first three days hiking up and down the Andies surrounded by beautiful scenery and passing Inca ruins along the way. We found the walk overall quite manageable but the second days hike to 4200m all ...

Hi, arrived safely in Peru 3 days ago. Had a quick stopover in Panama city on the way and were worried that we might lose our bags as a result due to the thieving tendencies of some of these countries but no problems once we arrived in Lima.Stayed in Lima just one night and got an overnight bus to Cusco the next day as we need to be here for 3 days before we start the Inca Trail (on the 11th) so that we can acclimatise! We haven?t had any problems but you can def...