30th October 2009 - 5th November 2009 We arrived in Cusco early in the morning after flying and sleeping in airports all night . Well this time I slept and Nikki held the fort. The scenery was immediately different to the north of South America because it was dustier with even more mud brick homes. The women of African descent with colorful clothing and fruit on their heads were replaced with native South American women with colorful clothing, wearing hats lik...

26th October 2009 - 30th October 2009 We thought we were in for a good night's sleep after scoring the front seats on the bus with the most leg room. Little did we know people were going to be constantly opening and closing the front door throughout the night, slamming into Sammys legs every time. He wasn't a happy traveler on arrival so we immediately got on the internet and booked some flights to avoid the next lot of buses (50 hours worth!). After breakfast ...

24th October 2009 - 26th October 2009 As Nikki and I travelled to Quito on the bus we were intrigued by the landscape of mountains and dry land, and the colorful clothing of the locals with a sound track of our latest favorite Jamie T's Kings and Queens. As we neared Quito we opened the Lonely Planet and discussed if we would stay in the new town with a reputation of dangerous streets but great restaurants and bars or the old town with beautiful old archit...

22nd October 2009 - 24th October 2009 After the many days of buses and travel we were pleasantly surprised by Pasto and desperately in need of a drink. Again we arrived in the late afternoon and after finding a nice hostel headed to the closest bar. We ordered a pizza, which turned out to be the largest pizza we've ever eaten, and some rum. When you order rum in Colombia you often end up with a bottle, glasses and coke served to you in quite a formal fashion. It...

21st October 2009 - 22nd October 2009 We stopped briefly in Cali, the salsa capital of the world, on the way down to Colombia. The city was a lot nicer than Medellin but unfortunately we couldn't stay any longer than the night we had. After arriving in the late afternoon we headed out to dinner and to see if we could find any dance action. We walked around for a bit and settled on a lovely Mexican restaurant. There wasn't too much going on in the area we were ...