After the Inca trail it was time to go back to school, which I did not find quite so cool.. To help me along my travels, I decided to do a two week spanish course. It was tough, and I've never been much of a school fan, however towards the end of the course I could converse in basic spanish, and hopefully continued use and practise will improve my spanish. For the duration of the course I stayed in a sort of homestay, though a few other students also lived in the house. It was a quiet two weeks, where I [View Full Entry]

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The Camino Inca Trail is a 50km, 4 day hike through the Andes, ultimately leading to Machu Picchu, one of the new 7 wonders of the world. And its damn tough let me tell you, at least for us non-athletes. And cold. Temperatures in the mornings and evenings where always around 2/4 degrees, so I was thankful for the Alpaca sweater I had bought in Cusco the previous day, even though it made me look a little like Moses, especially in combo with my walking stick. Day 1: The first day started with meeting the group I would be doing the [View Full Entry]

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I arrived in Lima, my first stop, after after a 12hr flight from Madrid, at 6pm local time (1am CET), and went straight to the 'The Point' hostel. The taxi drive there, was, shall we say... interesting, and a little hair-raising. The Limans don't seem to think much of traffic rules. Upon arrival, I was quite tired to say the least, so had a few nightcaps in the 'Pointless Bar' and had a goods night sleep. My first day in Lima I spent exploring the old colonial center with a french couple I had met the previous night. Lima is a [View Full Entry]

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