Petey Pablo

Monday 30th April - Cafayate to Tafi del Valle A 2pm bus to Tafi helped facilitate a nice leisurely late start and a walk around town to purchase some of the infamous wine ice cream. Stacie had the tinto and I got stuck with the blanco as she said it tasted like dirt and she was right. Mildly tipsy, we headed off on our 2 hour bus ride to Tafi through the mountains. We arrived in a sleepy village with buildings dotted sporadically across the mountain side which gave a slightly odd feel to the place but nonetheless it had a really nice quaint feel to it and we popped out from our new farmyard estancia to buy some local cheese and salami. Tuesday 1st May - Tafi to Tucuman Today is labour day and a ... read more

Monday 23rd April - Sucre to Uyuni Thank god this would be our last bus trip on one of Bolivia's excuses for transportation as we made the 9 hour journey to the Salt flats of Uyuni. Amazingly a British couple sat in front of us had brought along their 3 or 4 year old son who clearly wasn't ready to cope with the arduous travel as he proceeded to be sick continuously for the whole journey, the poor little lad. Uyuni is the original and archetypal dustbowl of a town as it sits on the edge of the salt flats and a large desert are, probably only in existence to service the hoards of gringos who come to marvel at the largest salt flats in the world, a dried up salt lake from prehistoric times that ... read more

Thursday 12th April - Copacabana to La Paz It was a 4 hour bus ride including a short boat trip across Lake Titicaca to get to the capital La Paz. The city is famously located at the base of a steep valley which provides you with an amazing view shortly before arriving. We checked into our ok hostal and had to then walk up 5 floors to get to our room which is harder than you might think at 3600 metres altitude. Then it was out on the mean streets of La Paz in search of food which are mental, manic, colourful and certainly full of life. Friday 13th April - La Paz Having decided we didn't like the location and the heart attack inducing 5 floor climb we exited our hostal and booked into the ... read more

Tuesday 3rd April - Cusco A fairly non-descript day doing menial tasks such as laundry, giving the fraud department at Nationwide a piece of my mind in an effort to get back our 2 grand and booking tickets for the train and Machu Picchu. We also had some fun bartering with the locals for their over priced gringo souvenirs. Unfortunately the Real McCoy is closed on Tuesday so we were disappointed not to have fish and chips and instead I had to make do with an amazing cheeseburger after we reluctantly visited the obligatory Irish Pub found in every tourist hotspot which are a magnet for every annoying septic in town. Wednesday 4th April - Cusco to Ollantaytambo Our nice hotel receptionist man who takes his work a little too seriously was kind enough to extend ... read more

Tuesday 27th March - Chiclayo to Trujillo to Huaraz After a late start we got the 4 hour bus to Trujillo where we had intended to stay the night, before moving on but on arriving there we found there was only 1 bus a day leaving for Huaraz at 9pm. Rather than stay in yet another grotty city we decided to wait it out in the bus station for 5 hours, along with a short trip to a shopping mall we'd seen advertised before getting the night bus. We took a taxi through the city, looking at endless crap in the streets and half finished so called houses and arrived at the Plaza Aventura mall. which appears as almost an oasis out of the desert. If there weren't any people there you could easily be fooled ... read more