In order to write these blog entries I refer back to my journal and the photos on my camera to jog my memory. You would think this would work really well, and indeed it would if I actually wrote in my journal every day. The actual sequence of events is more like 'oh s**t' I've forgotten to write in my journal (a whole week was my worst case) followed then by looking at my photos and looking at my itinerary and basically making stuff up. I have decided that writ...

Back from the Inca Trail we had a day in Cusco to recover.This involved a lovely day mooching around the shops and markets with Nicole my best buddy on tour. In keeping with Peruvin tradition, we tried the local delicacy for lunch - yep we ate a guinea pig!! It came I would guess roasted, and already cut into pieces consisting of the head (with teeth prominently showing), and the body in 4 easy to eat portions. After we had taken the obligatory tourist phot...

New Year's Eve - we are in Puno on the shores of Lake Titicaca, our first stop in Peru. We had a nice dinner, and I tried alpaca this time it's much tastier then llama ; ) Saw in 2013 in one of the plazas surrounded by fireworks, so really lovely. New Year's Day and we are off to stay on Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world. We caught rickshaws to the port and bought gifts of flour, rice, sugar etc for our host families. En route to our home f...

It's 2 days before Christmas now and we are off to Bolivia. After a 4 hour border crossing queueing in the heat, and crossing the Tropic of Capricorn, we arrived in Tupiza. The ladies here all wear strange hats, and get pretty peed off if you try to take photos of them. Tupiza is famous for being the place where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid met their end, and we went on a great jeep tour into the barren landscape to see where they would have had their showd...

I have decided that I am pretty rubbish at writing a blog looking at the date of my last entry! I don't think it helps being on a tour where you are one night here, two nights there and with no real down time. Trying to type whilst travelling on our stomach churning bus/truck runs the risk of my iPod flying through the air or worse case last nights dinner! Anyway when I wrote last I was in Paraguay. Our arriving gift to the locals in Asuncion, the capital city...