As some of you may have noticed, I have actually now returned from the trip, giving an indication of how far I fell behind with this. However I am determined to finish it so that I can get things down before I forget them. Besides, Ben's blog only lasted for 2 weeks way back in Thailand at the start of the trip before he gave up so I think I've done well. Anyway so after the exerts of the Inca Trail and appropriate celebrations in Cusco, we flew to Lima for our f...

Cusco is naturally a very lively city packed with tourists, but to be honest it's not typically overcrowded like most of the South American major cities we've been to. It has seemingly survived the Spanish architectural overhaul of the country during the colonial era and maintains a lot of indigenous historical and cultural charm. A host of buildings sport traditional Incan designs, such as the solid and incredibly intricate megalith walls of granite blocks that ...

Like I said I got out of hospital the day before the start of our G.A.P tour which was lucky. We had booked onto a 15 day tour going from La Paz to Lima involving Lake Titicaca and the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, as well as various other bits and bobs. Somehow we managed to fluke having G.A.P's best voted tour guide, Manuel, who was an absolute legend and a more than competent tour leader. He knew everything about every aspect of the trip and was incredibly organ...

So unfortunately we didn't have time to go down to the salt flats in Uyuni because we had to get to La Paz for the start of our G.A.P tour. Of course everyone we met had been and banged on about how amazing they are, so I was a little gutted but there wasn't much we could do I mean time is time and everywhere we've been on the trip, we've always lacked that little bit extra to do that on more thing. Anyway so we got to La Paz at like 5 in the morning but couldn't...

Okay so not only because I'm falling further behind with this thing by the day, but also because we also spent just a week in Bolivia and didn't do too much, I'm going to try and cover most of it in just one blog. So Santa Cruz was the first stop after the Death Train, and that's an easy one. We got there, stayed a night and did f***all because there's f***all there, and left the next day. I mean there's tons of electronic shops and restaurants and a token town s...