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October 19th 2009
Matt and I arrived in Cusco, which is the Incan capital of Peru. We spent some time walking around Cusco exploring all of the remaining Incan structures and walkways. We decided to hike to Machu Pichu via the Incan Jungle trail; the hike was three days and two nights. Unfortunalty we picked a bad tour group and did not have the best experience hiking but we had a good laugh when we reached Aguas Caliente(base camp for Machu Pichu .) On the upside we got to visit some amazing hot springs along the trail in Santa Theresa. Machu Pichu was incredible!! We decided to take the 5am bus up to top of the mountain where Machu Pichu sits to beat the crowd. As we were walking up to the ruins the clouds were just burning off ... read more
October 2nd 2009
Matt and I left Bolivia for Peru. Our first stop was in Arequipa, the second largest city in Peru. We booked a hiking tour through the Colca Canyon. We watched giant condors gliding on the thermals of the deepest part of the canyon. We walked to the bottom of the canyon and stayed in a local village where I got to try on a traditional andean dress. On the last day we visited an oasis and did some relaxing before we hiked five hours back to the top of the canyon ... it was a lung buster.... read more
September 13th 2009
We took a couple days off of traveling and spent some time in La Paz relaxing. We then took a 12 hour bus ride to Copacabana/Lake Titicaca. Lake Titicaca was beautiful!!!! We did a 17km hike from Copacabana to the boat dock that took us to Isla Del Sol. We spent the next day hiking to the north part of the island. We ended our tour of Lake Titicaca back in Copacabana.... read more
August 27th 2009
We spent three days in the La Pampas of Bolivia. We took a boat down Tuichi River and we able to veiw lots of wild life. On our La Pampas Matt and I went swimming with pink dolphins, piranah fishing and searching for camens at night. ... read more
July 31st 2009
Matt and I spent three days on the Solar de Uyuni, the largest salt flat in the world. We saw flamingos, pink lagoons and lots of salt. At the highest point in the tour we were at 5,100 meters. ... read more
July 22nd 2009
Salta was really good to us. We went on a road trip to two small towns outstide Salta. First we went to Cafayate and then onto Cachi. Both towns were great but the best part was the road and National Parks we drove through.... amazing. Now we are headed North to Bolivia.... burrrrrr.... read more
July 20th 2009
Matt and I spent two weeks in Buenos Aires visiting the different barrios. We found ourselves mainly walking around the city and taking in all of the sights. We went to a futbol match just outside Beunos Aries. The game was the Championship for all of the Buenos Aries club treams... it was wild.... read more
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