Since the last installment, we have travelled through Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. God we've done a lot! I guess after relaxing for 2 weeks on Lago de Atitlan, we needed to do fit a little craziness into the itinerary. In Belize we visited Placencia and Punta Gorda. Placencia was OK and it had a nice white sand beach, but it was cloudy and it rained for the two days we were there. Our hostel had rats too. And, I got cayenne pepper on "a sensitive area".... I blame Placencia. Punta Gorda was pretty sweet. It is a really chill [View Full Entry]

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So, it has been a while since I blogged.... It has been an incredibly busy month of relaxing on Lago de Atitlan, taking it easy at Semuc Champey, seeing Tikal at our leisure, chilling in Antigua, and hanging out in Coban. After the last installment, we booked down to San Cristobal in Mexico, where Aden got sick, and then we moved on to San Pedro on the Lago and met Morgan. San Pedro was pretty cool. However, we found ourselves going over to San Marcos everyday to go swimming at these really cool cliffs. Aden and I were working on our [View Full Entry]

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Greetings from San Miguel de Allende! We’ve spent the last two weeks here with Mom. We picked her up from the airport in Mexico City at 6:00 am on Christmas Day and then hopped on the first bus to San Miguel. We had a nice little Christmas during the five hour bus ride, exchanging gifts and such - truly a Christmas to remember! Before we left San Miguel we did a few things in Mexico City that weren’t covered by the last blog. We got sick for one thing… That was after flying too close to the sun with the street [View Full Entry]

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Dear god, Mexico City is huge! We've been here for four days, and we've seen maybe 5% of it. From what I can tell, the city is infinite... Our first hour here was very eventful -- in a bad way. Both of us were pick-pocketed. We were waiting at the subway station, travelling from the airport to our hostel in the Centro Historico. The station was pretty jammed and we were in the middle of the crowd. When the train arrived, there was a crush of people exiting the train while we scrambled to make it on. We were unsuccessful getting [View Full Entry]

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Our last blog... sigh. At least we covered a lot of ground since the last one. We spent some time in Mendoza, Argentina, then moved on to Horcón, Valparaiso, and Santiago in Chile. I know you’re probably thinking, “Wow! With that many destinations, this is sure going to be an action-packed blog!” Well, cool your heels missy. I’m afraid that our time was mainly spent doing such fun but uninteresting things as: eating copious amounts of the insanely cheap Argentinean blue cheese ($1.50 for 300 g), eating copious amounts of cheap and fresh cherries ($1 per kilo), eating ic [View Full Entry]

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We’d finally arrived: Buenos Aires, Paris of South America. We found a place in San Telmo, an older area of the city not far from down town. The whole place is full of Georgian buildings with crumbling molding and balconies of overgrown house plants. And the streets are cobbled. The first thing we did was go to Calle Florida, where all the shopping is. To Mike’s infinite delight, there was also a Subway. I must say, that we did buy a lot of shoes while in Buenos Aires, and now our bags are very heavy. You can get very nice stuff [View Full Entry]

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I guess we've been neglecting our blog responsibilities, so now we have two cities to write about: Potosi, Bolivia and Salta, Argentina. First, Potosi: It was one of our favourite cities in Bolivia. Also, it is the highest city in the world at 4090 m ASL, so in your face all you sea level-dwellers. We enjoyed Potosi for two reasons: 1) Its physical beauty. It has some of the finest colonial buildings that we have seen. For instance, our hostel -- Hostal Carlos V -- was in a great colonial building. (Never mind that the hardwood floors were covered by newspaper, [View Full Entry]

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Ok, so we’re back in Bolivia. We’re in Uyuni this time, which has pizza, pool tables, but NOT atms. Here’s how we got here: We left La Paz for Iquique, but didn’t get such a good deal on the bus trip. Also it turned out that the bus wasn’t going to Iquique, but to Arica. We were fairly surprised by this when we got to Arica and were told to wait and hour and get on a different bus. So we waited and no bus came. Turns out the bus we had tickets for had flat tires or something and we [View Full Entry]

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Before I start, one thing deserves mention. Bolivia is so cheap that it is stupid. One Boliviano costs about 13 cents CAD, and you can buy a decent falafel (yes, such a think exists in La Paz!) for 10 Bs. But maybe that isn’t the best example... 620 ml of beer at a bar also costs 10 Bs. Hmmmm. So anyhow, we left Puno several days ago for Copacabana. It is a three hours to the Bolivian border, and we rode in a combi. Now, to your average person a combi is like a little, cramped bus that stops every kilometer [View Full Entry]

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Hi everybody, we’re in Puno! Managed to get out of Puerto Maldonado a day early on a half empty flight. I guess our airline is not one of the better know ones, cheapest though. The flight was good, only a little turbulence as we got to Cuzco. Mike was having a tough time. We went straight to the bus station to buy tickets for the night bus to Puno, and were pleasantly surprised to find a whole mob of bus company touts all trying to sell us cheap last minute tickets going there! So within ten minutes of getting to the [View Full Entry]

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