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...

Our planned trip to our next location of Arequipa was brought forward a day when we told that there would be no transport between Puno and Arequipa for 3 days due to transport strikes over an ongoing mining dispute. Therefore we tiredly caught a bus at 10.30pm from Puno and arrived in Arequipa at 4.30am, which was followed by yet another argument with a taxi driver over not actually knowing where the hostel we wanted was and trying to drop us off any old place. E...

The time had come to take our one chosen luxury train journey of our trip; from Cusco to Puno aboard the 'Andean Explorer', a journey which would take us through the Andean mountains and up to a height of 4300m. Boarding the train, we were directed to our seats; at a table decorated with fresh red roses and a welcome note and menu for the day. The 8 hour journey begun in the dusty outskirts of Cusco but soon chugged along through the snow capped Andean mountains,...

11th May and we were off on the Inca Trail, the only thing we had actually planned on our round the world trip about a year ago! The four day walk to the lost city of Machu Picchu is known to wind through the zone where the snowcapped Andes Mountains meet the lush Amazon jungle; a 27 mile route that many experts believe the Incas blazed five centuries ago as a holy pilgrimage that prepared visitors to enter Machu Picchu. So after little sleep again, we were picke...