Lake Titicaca was one of the places we were both looking forward to visiting most in South America, as it the highest lake in the world. We left La Paz early in the morning which wasnt great for either of us, as I was still feeling rough from the temperature I´d had the previous night and Em was now doing some serious moaning about stomach pains! The bus ride was only 4 hours with some nice scenery along the way such as snow capped mountains and the locals going about their business in traditional bright clothing. At one point we had to cross the lake on a dodgy looking boat while the bus floated along next to us on an even worse looking barge. We arrived in Copacabana (not to be confused with the beach in ... read more

We were picked up early from our hostel in San Pedro de Atacama armed with 10 litres of water and set off for our 3 day trip across Chile´s atacama Desert to Bolivias Salt Flats. There were 4 Jeeps in total on our trip with 6 eager tourists in each. We got lucky as our 4WD comprised of 3 couples, one from up north, one from Jersey, us and Felix our friendly (but strict) driver whom was very experienced and always sober which is exactly what you want when your driving through desert tracks and over mountains for 3 days. Our tour operator had informed us they would change our chiliean money into bolivian for the park entrance we need to pay and a bit extra for any bolivian souvenirs. Annoyingly on departure they said they ... read more

Our first internal flight within South America was to Salta, we booked a cab the night before and told the driver our flight was at 9.30am he therefore recommended we leave the hostel at 6am to allow for traffic and the hour drive to the airport. What we realized that night was that our plane departed from the other airport in Buenos Aires 15 minutes down the road. So having arrived with plenty of time to spare I got the coffees while Em found out what time we could check in, she came back 5 minutes later looking somewhat confused to tell me our flight had been changed and had left at 6am! Fortunately we were able to get on the next flight to Salta departing at 12.20, so only 5 hours to kill. You can ... read more

I know its been a while since we updated our blog and there is a huge chunk (all 7 months in Australia) missing but we´re now on the final leg of our journey, so expect to be annoyed with emails from us again telling you what an amazing time we´re having! Dont worry we will do Australia soon!! After bidding Australia and all our friends a sad farewell we boarded our flight at 11am on 2nd January and arrived in Buenos Aires 13 hours later 10.30am local time, half hour before we left!! Fortunately due to my leg being the same size as an elephant trunk and looking pretty bad from the spider (unconfirmed) bite, the guy at check in either fancied me or felt sorry for me and upgraded us. This meant we had two ... read more

The journey to the Perhentian islands was not the longest or hardest we'd endured so far but still pretty epic even by our Asian trip standards. It started with a 4am cab ride to one of KL's airports and a McDonalds breakfast to prepare us for the day. It was raining when we left so weren't too sad to be leaving KL and the 2 hour flight onboard one of those scary propellor planes again to Kota Bharu on the east coast was painless. Once down we took a deep breathe and prepared for the enevitable ripping off that comes with most taxi booking in Asia. With the barganing out the way we had the pleasure of travelling with a driver who was either falling asleep at the wheel or sounding like he was suffering an ... read more