5/05/09 We arrived in Quito by 6am and were amazed by the size of the bus terminal. its huge! We jumped into two taxis and headed to our hostel, Central Del Mundo Hostel. Its situated smack in the middle of the nightlife but the only problem with that location is that its not exactly safe. The hostel is about twenty feet away from 'Muggers corner!' All exhausted from travelling overnight we hit the sack but booked our alarms for nine. As the brothers were leaving in two days and we wanted to see the sights with them, time was limited. [View Full Entry]

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27/04/09 Walking around Cuenca looking for somewhere to have breakfast we soon noticed a few things. The beauty of the city. Its such an historical city lined with pebbled streets and old buildings. But that wasn't the first thing that came to our attention. We realised within seconds of leaving our hotel that it wasn't a destination used to seeing travellers. The amount of attention we were getting was unbelievable. To the point where we were walking around the streets and a group of young police girls came up to us and asked if they could take our photos. Locals [View Full Entry]

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19/04/09 So Mat, Mike and I arrived in Trujillo around 6am and we had already read that its not a great place to stay. Its not the prettiest place in the world and seriously lacks things to do so we got a taxi straight tothe nearbye beach town of Huanchaco. We found a lovely little family run hotel and slept till midday. Overnight busses really do take it out of you. After grabbing lunch from the recommended restaraunt, My Friend, we went on a mission to rent surfboards. We found a place, agreed prices then Mat's board fell from where he [View Full Entry]

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31/03/09 We finally arrived in Cusco by 4.30am after a journey that threw many suprises into our faces. It was still pitch black and according to the Lonley Planet, Cusco wasn't a safe place to be walking around in the dark with all your bags. So we decided to stay in the terminal till the sun started to warm our shivering bodies. It was a lot colder than i thought it was going to be! Within seconds Mike got his sleeping bag out and had fallen asleep along side our bags. With quite a few dodgey looking people around i didn't [View Full Entry]

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28/03/09 Mike and I were at the bus station by 7.30am to catch a bus to Copacabana and luckily both of us were feeling well. The first time for quite a while. One girl wasn't so lucky. She was throwing up in the bin just next to the parked bus. I think La Paz takes a lot of victims!ha We were the last ones on the bus and Mike ended up getting a broken seat. Not only that but we were sat about two seats back from the girl who was being sick so we were continuosley praying that she wasn't [View Full Entry]

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8/04/09 Its an automatic reaction for your eyes to open when the bus stops and the bus stopped in a shanty dirt town for about an hour around 6am. I have no idea why? We all woke up, looked out the window and then looked at each other with confused expressions on our faces. It wasn't long till they started playing movies so the movie marathon had begun. Looking out the window all you could see was desert and baron mountains. Come around 11am we came to a stop. There was road works taking place and and it didn't take long [View Full Entry]

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18/03/09 We arrived in La Paz at 5am after a trouble free bus journey. We reserved two beds in Arthys guesthouse the day before as we didnt want any hassle trying to find somewhere at that time in the morning. Arthys Guesthouse was suppose to be very close to the terminal and quite. Mike and I both agreed we wanted to chill for the next week and concentrate on Spanish. The taxi took about ten minutes and the first impressions of the hostel were great. Exactly what we wanted. They let us check into the rooms straight away and we had [View Full Entry]

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16/03/09 So Mike and I left our hostel and headed to the travel shop from where we booked our salt flat trip through to pick up our bus tickets. We had an extra spring in our step after an amazing few days on the salt flats. Either that or it was because we had hardly any clothes in our backpacks!ha We walked through the doors and we could tell within a split second by the mans face that he had forgot to book our tickets to Potosi. We jumped into his car and raced us down to the bus terminal. Well, [View Full Entry]

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11-03-09 We arrived at the border town of La Quica by 6am. We knew we were arriving early in the morning but we were hoping it was going to be after sun rise. So you can imagine the look on our faces when we got woken up, looked out the window and realised it was still pitch black..great! Within seconds of stepping out of the bus to collect out backpacks we felt unsafe. The fact that there were loads of dodgey looking lads hanging around didnt help. We found a place in the so called bus terminal and met a couple [View Full Entry]

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17-02-09 One of the many things i love about travelling. I arrived in Cordoba around 10am and got a taxi to my hostel, Baluch Backpackers. The taxi driver and i laughed all the way talking about the beautiful Argentinan girls and pointing them out along the way. To be fair we both shared the same taste pointing out the ones we were not to keen on as well. Wow, that makes me sound really bad! I just want to point out that i do realise the importance of inner beauty as well! I climbed up the spiral staircase to my hostel, [View Full Entry]

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