So onwards to Tena. Sadly contrary to popular belief (Andy Steeds) Tena is not the place where sanitary towels were invented, nor is it the dwelling of a huge ´Tena Lady´who roams around endulging in various extreme sports despite it being the time of the month. It is in fact a sprawling town on the edge of the Amazon, home to some of South Americas best white water rafting. We promptly booked ourselves on to a trip with local rafting company ´The River People...

So we arrived in Cuenca, Ecuador´s third largest city, and jolly pretty it is too.Managed to find a hotel for $5 a night each and set off to explore the city´s cobbled streets.Found an amazing panama hat shop with the sweetest old man who could hardly speak, but had scrap books full of his customers from around the world and pictures of him receiving awards for his quality hat making skills.Obviously we had to buy from this master craftsman, which has resulte...

You may have seen in the news that Machu Picchu was re-opened by actress Susan Sarandon after the great floods that closed it 2 months ago. Well after finishing our volunteering in Trujillo we headed north to a place called Chachapoyas to get our last bit of South American history. And see a site to rival the aforementioned 7th wonder of the world. This provincial capital is surrounded by of a wealth of inca and pre-inca sites. The Chachapoyans (cloud forest ...

Volunteering Part 2 So that was us for the month of Febuary. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays were spent at the school and Wednesday and Friday nights were spent leading conversation classes about topics such as the environment, family, art and literature and the media. This was our favourite bit as we got to learn a bit about Peru and its culture, for example, it´s quite common in the poorer areas here for girls as young as 14 to marry men of 30 without an...

Volunteering Part 2 So that was us for the month of Febuary. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays were spent at the school and Wednesday and Friday nights were spent leading conversation classes about topics such as the environment, family, art and literature and the media. This was our favourite bit as we got to learn a bit about Peru and its culture, for example, it´s quite common in the poorer areas here for girls as young as 14 to marry men of 30 without an...