Hey all! So this is the penultimate entry! I can`t believe the last 3.5 months have gone so quickly and I`ve done so much ( most of which feels like a distant dream already!) in such a short space of time! So the last week hads been very chilled. It took a couple of days to get back into the rhthym of being alone again and felt a little sad about not having the guys from the group around - we were a proper little family! One of the dads - George - went home and...

Hi all - I hope you are well and surviving the strong winds I keep hearing about! Got back from the Galapagus yesterday and had an awesome time - it was a lot more relaxing than the Inca trail for sure! On Wednesday we flew from Quito to the Galapagus. We arrived at about midday and were picked up and driven through Baltra - the island that the airport was on. I was surprised at how desolate and small the vegetation was. Nothing much higher than the grass unti...

Hello All - sorry for 2 in a row but better late than never! So met with the Gap group - there were 16 of us all together mostly from Canada, 4 from the US and 1 guy from Norway. Turned out to be an amazing group of people ( bar a couple!). I have a lovely lady who I´m sharing a room with for the duration she´s very motherly and we get on very well! We had our meeting and pretty much everyone was feeling a bit nervous about the trek - 3 of the group weren´t ...

(wrote this a while ago but it wouldn´t up load so here it is and the next update to follow!) Hello! I hope you are all well? So I am now in Peru! I managed to get one more day of sunshine in Rio before I left! The clouds shifted so instead of the Botanical Gardens I headed down the beach and spent the day soaking up the sun and watching the world go by. I went and met Annie and Soraya in Ipanema in the evening and we went to a night market where th...

Hello! I hope you are all well? Si I am now in Peru! I managed to get one more day of sunshine in Rio before I left! The clouds shifted so instead of the Botanical Gardens I headed down the beach and spent the day soaking up the sun and watching the world go by. I went and met Annie and Soraya inIpanema in the evening and we went to a night market where they had two big stages with live music and people dancing everywhere! They were so amazing, really enjo...