Heather Gill

Go back and check out the entries for Ollantaytambo, Uruguay and Cuzco as we have now added photos! Ok so it doesn´t really seem like we´ve actually done very much since we came back from Uruguay, highlight was definately the skydive! We moved hostel and this new one seems a bit more homely, nice to have a few less people than the milhouse, this one might have a few too little though! Our room here is lovely though, we´ve both chosen bottom bunks so its nice not to have to climb up or worry about falling out! Again there are no ladders at all so would be interesting trying to get in and out in the middle of the night! Only disadvantage of this hostel really is there is not kitchen so we have to eat ... read more

We got up (a bit later than we wanted to) to head down to the port. We had taken our big bags to the hostel we were staying at when we got back the night before so we only had our small bags. They were still really full as we had to have stuff for the three days. We had breakfast and walked to the port, wishing we had listened a bit more when the other girls from the hostel had told us the way! We found it though and it wasn´t too hard! When we went to buy tickets we were told we would have to buy first class as there was no space left in tourist class. Was only about 40 pesos more which is less than 8quid so we decided it was worth ... read more

Ok so we arrived in Buenos Aires today, really tired as we had to get up before 6 to go to the airport for our flight. Was really uneventful although flying over the Andes was cool! We've been trying to fill in the gap that we left in the blogs so you will probably get them in a completely random order as we finish and publish them. We spent quite a while in our last hostel trying to upload photos, thinking we would finish it off here, adding the words when we could so you could see what we'd been upto. Unfortunately the computers here at the hostel are really rubbish and old and have had the cd drives removed so we cant add any more for a while. There is also only three computers for ... read more

Our room in the hostel was quite small with just a double bed in it, so small that you can only get into the bed from one side which was a bit annoying!!! We had only booked for two nights as we didn´t want to book for longer as we didn´t know what it would be like. Kim had also only booked for a few days but she was in the dorm. Its really nice here so we decided to book for the rest of the time we´re in Chile, partly because we´re too lazy to move elsewhere!!!! The hostel is really nice though, has a proper homely feel, with a proper kitchen so we can cook our own food. We moved into the dorm room which is actually really nice. There are three sets of ... read more

this is really sad in some ways as our tour has come to and end and we are sad to not be travelling on with everyone, but it will be nice to not be in such a huge group!!! as we had had to wait so long to do the island trip it was later than we had expected when we reached lima. we just had time to have showers before meeting up to go out for our last meal all together. Nic was flying out that night so people were already starting to leave!!! we went to a bbq restaurant and matt advised us on a meal we should get. it was a mixed grill for 5 people, between 11 of us. we were a bit dubious whether there would be enough food for all ... read more