Lynz and Ross

Just thought I would put up some more of our photos of our time in Foz do Iguacu and the surrounding area. We visited the Argentinean side of the falls on News Years Day and it was just out of this world. Definitely one of the highlights of our travels. ... read more

We had arranged a four day tour to Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni and we knew this was to be one of the highlights of our travels and it definitely was that! We took the overnight bus from La Paz to a small town called Uyuni. We decided to take the tourist bus as we were warned that the roads throughout Bolivia were not the best, only 95% are paved and some roads are known for bandits. As always though, the bus was about an hour late but we were starting to get used to this. The bus was pretty comfy but after a couple of hours on the paved road it turned into a dirt track and the vibrations and the noise through the bus kept us awake most of the night. We arrived in the ... read more

Today was one of the reasons we wanted to stay in La Paz and that was to mountain bike down the Worlds Most Dangerous Road. We spent a long time researching companies to go with and Gravity Assisted Mountain Biking was a clear winner. All the reviews were great and the equipment was the best. You don't exactly want anything less when you are cycling down the WMDR! An early start! As always on this trip, the excursions start early, so it was a 7am start at a café down beside the Gravity office. Gravity has now decided to class December as the “rainy season” therefore more risks are involved and they have adapted their packages. So we were a smaller group of only 8 and we had 3 guides which was great. It was time ... read more

Following the completion of the Inca Trail, there was no time to recover. We were whisked off to our accomodation and introduced to the boys and girls. The boys and girls are split into different districts of Cusco. The girls orphanage was in the suburb of Wanchaq which was only 5 mins in a tico taxi from the centre of Cuzco. Our accomodation was right on top of the girls Orphange which was very handy. The boys were about 10 minutes away in a slightly tougher neighbourhood, Santiago. The apartment was extremely basic, the kitchen consisted of a camping stove! Oh well, so much for doing some cooking! The girls all gave us a very warm welcome with each one introducing themselves and welcoming us to the Orphanage. Surprisingly most of them could speak english, some ... read more

Day 1 - Colca Canyon Tour Thursday 15th Nov Like every tour in Peru, there is always an early start, this one wasn't too bad though, pick up was at 8.30am. We were picked up in a nice little Merc Sprinter, better than we had anticipated and there was already a few others onboard. Abel seemed very nice and his english was good so all in all a good start. Our first stop was to a small shop in Arequipa to buy some coca leaves and candies to help with the altitude. We really weren't looking forward to chewing on some leaves with some sort of volcanic rock! Secondly, he advised us to purchase some fruits to give as gifts to the local children who would be posing for tourist photos, so we bought a couple ... read more