Hi Guys, just a quick update of what we´ve been upto over the last couple of weeks. We beelined it to Iquique a small surfy beach resort in Northerin Chile to escape the high altitude of Peru and recover from bad bellies...After a week of chilling in the sun and eating good (home-cooked) food we made our way to San Pedro De Atacama a small, pretty village made of mud, rock and straw set in the desert with a reasonably low altitude of only 2440 metres and pl...

In Cuzco now about 3400m above sea level. Zoe isn´t the slightest bit affected by the altitude, where as I seem to be on the verge of death. Was a bit touch and go when we first arrived whether or not I´d actualy make the trek as I had a fever and my head felt like it was about to explode. But a lot of drugs seemed to help and we soldiered on. Went to see a few Inca sites and a current community, all dressed up in traditional garb, by bus before the ...

Hola my friends. It has been a while since our last journal update and mucho has gone on. We decided to skip Costa Rica and Panama out of our travels this time around and got a flight to Quito, Ecuador (wich happened to stop in Costa Rica and Panama so we can officially say we have been there too).From hot and muggy Central America Quito was refreshingly cool. We got hot showers for the first time since we´ve been away and blankets on our bed. Best couple o...

Hola peeps - been a while so hope everyones still swinging. Been in this sodding cafe for about an hour already so this will be brief. Currently on Isla de Ometepe in Nicaragua - lovely place, look it up. Left Belize after growing bored with Carribean beaches and flew to Nicaragua. Spent one night in Managua then headed to Leon (again charming place - look it up) to learn some Spanish. After a weeks course I had learnt many things - I learnt that the nicaraguan...

Finally, I’ve managed to get to the pc before Sam and have my say (Sam: actually she’s refused so far and now I’ve forced her). (Zoe: That’s a lie you just think you write better than anyone else). (Sam: Just get on with it – but frankly I do). Anyway since our last Journal update we went snorkeling over beautiful coral reefs with an abundance of colourful fish with interesting names we can’t remember (we leant a lot!) We s...