Bus. Bus. Ferry. Bus. And we had crossed the Bolivian border, reaching La Paz a few hours later. Now we´ve said goodbye to the lovely Angel and met our new guide, the fabulous Fredy. They are pretty much polar opposites but both great so I think we´ve been lucky. As well as mourning the loss of Angel, we´ve said goodbye to two of our group, but have 3 more to get to know now.La Paz, although we were only briefly there, was a really nice city and seemed to have...

After a long journey to Puno, we went out as a group to experience some local Peruvian dancing and try our first Guinea Pig. Surprisingly, it was more like duck than the expected chicken, and prepared beautifully. Along with about 10 local dances and a band to entertain, a pretty good evening all round.In the morning we travelled via a fleet of ´tuc-tuc´s to our boat and set off on our Lake Titicaca adventure. After a quick stop for lunch on Taquile Island, and...

We´ve done it! I think we both agree, it was pretty much the most knackering thing we´ve ever done, but we have completed the Lares trek and are feeling quite chuffed. The day before the trek we drove from Cuzco to Ollantaytambo, where we spent the night. We first stopped at a local community that GAP supports to see how they make all the beautiful scarves, gloves and hats, etc from alpaca and llama wool, using natural pigments to dye it all different colours....

It´s been a while since last we wrote, but fear not, we are alive and reasonably well (apart from the expected dodgy bellies and the altitude side effects!).We are now part of a group of 12 and so far have travelled from Lima, through Pisco, Nazca and Arequipa, arriving back there today after a side trip to the Colca Canyon. We got off to a bit of a slow start as the advice concerning Lima was ´Careful where you travel as it´s quite dangerous in places´ and ...

If you can choose one holiday destination... choose Galapagos! We have just returned from 7 days of absolute wildlife heaven and are still processing all the things we´ve seen. We travelled from Quito with GAP adventures and had 7 nights on board GAP Voyager 3; visiting (in order) North Seymour, Rabida, Santiago, Sombrero Chino, Bartolome, South Plaza, Santa Fe, Santa Cruz, Floreana, Espanola and Baltra. So a busy few days! Every day was unique for its landsca...