Hi Freinds and family - here is the next instalment, We travelled from Argentina (Mendoza) to Chile (Santiago) by overnight coach and we were glad we did, as the views were fantastic. The higher we drove the more snow-capped mountains and stars we saw. When we arrived at the checkpoint between the two countries (called the pass of La Cumbre) we were over 3,800 metres above sea level and freezing. The checkpoint was only a little shed in the middle of nowhere a...

Hi Everyone, Hope all is well in sunny England. Here´s the latest installment, the Argentina part of the adventure. After we left Paraty in Brazil we headed for Iguazu. This town has the biggest waterfalls in the world and you can view them from both sides of the border ie Brazil side and Argentinian side. We had booked some accommodation on the Argentinian side in another hostel and arrived early in the morning. We were a bit worried as we hadn´t seen picture...

Hi All, Hope you are all well. As mentioned before we`re a bit behind with the blog updates, we`re currenlty in Argentina but still have to add the Brazil pictures etc, so here you go. So, after the Inca Trail, and can i just say i actually loved it, Andy was just making things up about tissue up my nose and hissy fits, i mean can you really see me doing that!!!!! ha ha. After our luxury night in the 5 star hotel in Lima, (we slept for 15 hours!!) we caught a fl...

Sorry for the delay but it has taken verity 10 days to even talk about the Inca Trail let alone help write about it - very traumatic for her! The wedding was off a few times, but we got through it in the end. A few tears and quite a bit of flailing arms and that was just me!We arrived in Peru (Lima) early in the morning and took a taxi to downtown Lima (not the nicest of areas). Peruvian drivers are unbelievably bad - it was like the start of the wacky races - it...