Christmas in Sucre After a rather bumpy overnight bus ride on cobbled roads we arrived in the Bolivian capital Sucre where we would be spending Christmas day. Arriving in Sucure early in the morning of Christmas eve we went into organisation mode to get supplies (drink and some food) for the following day's celebrations. Eventually we ended going to a flash restaruant for lunch then prepared a mini feast from ingreadients we could get and cookin the hos...

Today I cycled Bolivia's Death Road just outside La Paz which has a byline of 'the most dangerous road in the world'. 'Death road' refers to primarily the dirt section of road between La Paz and the low land town of Coroico. Up until two years ago this was still the main throughfare carrying all vehicles including trucks and busses to La Paz from the low lands. The majority of the road is gravel and narrow (3.2 meters wide at its narrowest point) with sheer clif...

<!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> The Inca Trail and Machu Picchu FAQs I'm writing this in retrospect to approximately two months (10th February 2009, in Las Lajas Panama) after completing the Inca trail, I've left blogging about this experience so long as I wanted time to really examine my thoughts on the trek rather than coming straight out with a response that has a lot of negativity. I think Machu...

Leaving Cusco after a couple of days acclimatisation in the ancient Inca capital (~3,400m) we travelled toward Ollantaytambo to spend the night there as a jump off to the Inca Trail. In the morning we entered the Altiplano the massive high altitude plane that runs in the Andes from Peru, through Bolivia into Chile and Argentina, we stopped in a traditional Quechua village (the Quechua are the people that the modern world refers to as Inca's, Inca was actually th...

Managed to make it to Arequipa keeping it all together. The bus had a toilet so I did feel I always had a plan B, it was a good thing that I didn't hear our guide, Chilly-Windy, tell everyone that it was only for 'number ones' when I boarded. Felt a lot worse upon arrival to Arequipa so made a plan to see a doctor. The doctor took one look at me and performed some tests which later showed that I had a pretty bad bacterial infection of the digestive tract. Lots o...