Next stop - Colombia, a country we hadn't considered at the start of our trip planning due to the idea that it was unsafe, but having bumped into numerous people along our travels who sung Colombia's praises and after a bit more research into the country's safety, we couldn't resist taking a look for ourselves! Our entry into the country from Ecuador begun with a night in the town of 'Ipiales', where we shared an extremely basic room with Zach that came with flie...

On the 28th we left the Galapagos islands on a 'Tame' flight back to the mainland. Our next destination was to be Quenca, a small city of cobblestone streets and red tiled roofs, with a strong Spanish colonial influence . We arrived by bus at 9pm, by this time both tired and hungry. After checking in at our hostel, Trevor being the hunter gathering male that he pretends to be, set off into town to look for something to bring back to eat. As it was now quite late,...

A long journey of two buses with a 20 hour wait between them, luckily leaving Peru on the day our visa ran out by chance, and spending the night in a unfriendly hotel in Guyaquil, we caught our flight for a once I a lifetime opportunity to sale around the Galápagos Islands. Originally we hadn't really considered visiting the Galápagos on our round the world trip; we'd always thought of it as way out of our budget and a trip in itself. However, speaking to peopl...

With some kind of hiking obsession we moved on via a nights stop in Lima, to Huaraz, the home of Peru's alpine hiking, and to the backdrop of giant snow covered mountains. We checked into a prison cell like room in exhaustion, spent the next couple of days doing nothing apart from moving to a better hostel, getting ripped off for lunch because of a language barrier at the restaurant we chose and buying supplies for our upcoming 'Santa Cruz trek'...Trevor also hur...

In light of the large earthquake on the 25th April in Nepal, the effects of which have been so widespread and devastating to the Nepalese people, we wanted to write a short blog entry to give a slightly different perspective on the news you've all no doubt watched in the last few weeks. We were very upset to hear of the disaster; Nepal was a special place to us on our travels and offered us so much for so little. After travelling around India we found the country...