Now then, we are here in Chile and I have a couple of weeks worth of stuff to update you all on. Zoe left you in LaPaz when she finished writing about our activities in Copacabana so I will pick up the baton from there. We got a bus to La Paz which set off at 8am from sleepy Copacabana and dropped us in noisy, smelly, dirty La Paz in the heat of Monday 26th Jan. We took a room at a hotel that had been recommended to us in Copacabana and then set out to explore...

Hello again! We are really far behind on this blog so I'm going to attempt to bring you all comletely up to date - here goes! Our second day in Cusco (back on 15th Jan) was spent exploring the town and buying supplies for the Inca Trail. I visited the Cathedral where there is a painting of the last supper with Jesus eating a Guinea pig (a local deliacy) but other than that I found the cathedral really depressing - all the beautiful wood carving had been covered ...

Now then everyone - it has been a long time and for that I apologise. In a break from convention I am doing back to back blogs, the reason for which will become apparent in Zoe´s next installment. Right, Quito, not a bad place if you discount the constant threat from pick pockets and muggers and such like but the old part of the city is beautiful. We got back from Galapagos on Saturday 3rd and the flight to Lima wasn´t until the 6th so we had a couple of days t...

Hi everyone, and Happy New Year! We are back from the Galapagos and we had a f**king awesome time. Got back Saturday afternoon and we are now in Quito (capital city of Ecuador) at 2800m above sea level for 3 nights before we go to Peru. We set off from Guyaquil on Saturday 27th at 9.15am and flew 2 hours to the airport on Baltra Island. The islands are 1 hour behind the mainland so we got there shortly after 10.00 and the first thing you do when you arrive is pa...

Hi We're a bit behind I'm afraid. I'm going to write from Banos until Guayaquil then Nick will write about our time in the Galapagos otherwise my hands might fall off from too much typing!! So.. here goes. Banos is a very touristy town around about the middle of Ecuador. It's grew up around natural thermal springs and is now a major tourist destination for Ecuadorians and foreigners. We arrived way back on 21st December and spent an afternoon wandering round a...