Lisa and Dave

Rain, rain go away, come again some other day! Well, it´s finally hit us. The unseasonable torrential downpours which other travellers have been warning us about for weeks during our travels in CR and Nica have finally hit us too. Our plan for our remaining 10 days in CR was the Osa Peninsula and Carribean Coast but torrential rain in these areas (theoretically it´s now the dry season!) has caused such severe flooding, it´s virtually impossible to travel around there. We made it down to Puerto Jimenez in the Osa Peninsula, one of the most remote and unvisited areas of CR (and supposedly one of the best!) and organised ourselves a little independent 3-day hike, bought mosquito nets, 50 bucks worth of food, the whole shebang. There was torrential rain literally all night before we were ... read more

Costa Rica...lush, green and very humid! It´s a country very used to tourists and knows how to charge them. In most countries, you pay to enter a national park and then enjoy it, but in some national parks here they seem to charge for each walk, waterfall and toucan sighting (ok, an exaggeration, but only slightly!). Nevertheless, we are really enjoying spending time in this beautiful country. The people are friendly and travel is easy as the tourist infrastructure is very good and most people speak English. We´ve been to three areas so far; La Fortuna and Arenal, Monteverde/Santa Elena and Rincon de la Viajar. Some of our highlights so far: *Despite the very, very wet weather in La Fortuna, which meant we were unable to see the Volcan Arenal until the day we were leaving ... read more

We have finished up in Buenos Aires (and South America) and are now in Costa Rica and Central America. It´s also about 1/2 way through our trip so we´re running out of time ... Here are the last few things we did in Argentina. Photos to follow when we get a chance to load them up A close call We had our first South American scam experience with somebody trying to steal our belongings. We were chilling in a small park having lunch on a park bench when guy #1 walked by and dropped his keys. Lisa called after the guy who kept walking and then pursued him to return the keys. Meanwhile, guy #2 grabbed our camera bag containing camera, wallet, passport which was about 50cm away from where Dave was was sitting on the ... read more

Here are our photos from the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu... read more

Hi, So we finally arrived in Bolivia after all the hassle. We flew into La Paz which is at about 3,600m and immediately noticed the effects of this - e.g. out of breath and tired after just walking up 10 stairs. We got over this pretty quickly and have now seen a bit of Bolivia, here are our highlights: La Paz * One of the few cities we have visited with an immature tourism industry so nobody hassling us and probably 90% Spanish speaking only * The local women - Choquitas - still wear their traditional clothing and weird bowler hats * We have been sleeping A LOT and getting tired easily. When we went to bed early one night we were lucky enough to catch a Sex and the City marathon on TV !?! * ... read more