So England are out of the World Cup, but I can officially surf. Yup, I stood up and steered the thing and everything before falling off and noticing the toilet paper and other unsavoury objects floating around in the water. That should have really been a sign for the next few days, which involved not feeling too great, but then drinking sewage tends to have that effect! From there we headed up the Peruvian coast, to Mancora a lovely little seaside resort with ...

We last left you waiting for a flight over the ancient mystical Nasca lines (pending any difficulties that seem to arise at every corner here). And we certainly weren´t dissapointed with this reason for the 3 hour delay...... "somebody stole a plane". Thats right, in this day in age, somebody wandered into the airport and stole a plane which then vanished, hence the security lock down for sevveral hours. Eventually we were taken for our flight, and r...

Oxygen is underestimated, you dont realise quite how useful it is until you dont have it! The four day trek on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu began quite well, a pleaseant stroll in the mountains past some ruins, enjoying tasty food and lovely views. Day two involved a hike upwards for several hows to 4200m to a point named Dead Womans Pass, and that was where I began to miss the luxury of oxygen. It was made all the worse by the porters (carrying 25kg each) who ...

Do one thing a day that scares you! So far on this trip some of those scary things include jumping out of a plane, scuba diving in a tank full of sharks and stingrays, crawling through tunnels used in the Vietnam war, eaten strange things and many more but none even compare to the most horrifying experience yet, the Bolivian bus ride! We headed from the capital to a place called Rurranabaque in the Amazon basin a simple 20 hour bus journey away taking a road ca...

Theres a subtle warning ina certain travel guide about the tour companies operating in this part of the world. They are cheap but ¨quality does not come at this price¨. We shall bear this in mind the next time we decide to tak a three day 4x4 jeep tour across the Andes into Bolvia and the salt flats. All began well, as we arrived at the Bolivian border in a snowy desert, just as a dust storm kicked up and destroyed one of our cameras, later that day as we reac...