How many people (travellers or otherwise) go ga-ga at the prospect of visiting Lima? Somewhere between very few and none. There's a running commentary on favourable (and otherwise) destinations in hostels everywhere we go, and Lima is hot on no one's lips. In fact, people have actively warned us away from spending time here, as "there's nothing to do". This is one of the biggest travesties in the world of travel, and I'm going to spend a couple of hundred words c...

After spending a few nights in La Paz - (don't ask what it's like; we were bed ridden from altitude sickness... All I know is there are no road rules and lots of beeping) - we headed for lower ground in Arequipa, Peru. This little beauty is the second largest city in Peru and is surrounded by three very much still active volcanoes (one of which is considered the most perfectly sculpted volcano in the world, Misty Mountain). This city plays host to a bus...

For us Uyuni was a place without boundaries.We can look at this from a few different angles. Firstly, the natural beauty that is the Salar de Uyuni (aka the salt flats of Uyuni). This not-so-little marvel is mind blowing and definitely plays games with your senses. Imagine a perfectly-flat desert; but instead of dust/sand/dirt we have pure white salt clustered into honeycomb patterns as far as the eye can see. The horizon disappears into the reflection of the ...

Picture this: two dishevelled travellers with massive packs rock up at a servo, beg for a wifi password and sit down to feverishly start punching away at their smart phones. That was us. Let me try to justify... Making your way overland from Cafayate to Salar De Uyuni is a mission. When I zoomed out on the map, it looked a much more respectable distance to cover in one go: as such we were pretty keen to just knock out this leg of the trip quickly. We have a fl...

I could sit here and write a few hundred words trying to describe Cafayate like a poet. But I'm no Shakespeare, and it's appeal can be surmised with two simple words: wine and hiking.   The Rio Colorado is a small river that flows from high in the mountains that flank Cafayate's western borders. My GPS tells me we covered 4km from the start of the NP to the small (10m-ish) waterfall at the end of the ravine, but it felt a lot more than that. We were making the...