Hello one and all! Welcome to the first blog entry from Tom and Maria!! Arrived here about five days ago now. Took us ages to get back to our hotel cos the traffic round here is a nightmare! Anyway we stayed at a place called the Buddy Lodge which was expensive for Thailand but was worth it for the first couple of nights whilst we settled in. Maria warned me not to get too used to this and she was right- the next place we stayed in wasn't quite as luxurious- bas...

The bus ride down to Bariloche was suprisingly comfortable and we didn´t get stuck in the strikes! Yay! They did play a medle of Ricky Martin videos though which were hilarious! As we got nearer to bariloche we could see why everyone raves about it all the time. the scenery was stunning with bright blue lakes surrounded by huge mountains. The town itself is so cute, it looks a lot like a ski resort town in swizerland would look like with houses made out of w...

We left Cusco and took the local bus to Pisaq, a town just 1 hour fromCusco to visit the Inca ruins. Im glad we didnt buy into the tourist tours and have done the SacredValleytrip ourselves as it is very easy (there is nothing wrong with local buses!), very cheap (20p) and a little more cultural. The ruins were pretty spectacular and we did a 2 hour walk around them going through tiny tunnels and walking on the edge of massive drops into thevalley below.I think i...