We left South America almost a week ago now, and it's taken me all that time to think up the best way to describe the Inca Trail experience and our last few days in Peru. I'll have a go, but bear in mind that it's one of those things that you really should do for yourself - it's hard to put into words the mixture of feelings and emotions that four days of walking and three nights of camping can create. On Friday 21st we were picked up early by bus for the start of the biggest test of our 3 months in South America. The night before we'd met our Inca Trail companions - 2 brits (John & Fay), 2 Swedes (Richard and Corinne) and a Norwegian (Anders). Our team of intrepid explorers were quiet ... read more

Hello readers As our South American adventure draws to its conclusion, we´ve now hit our last destination - Peru. Having flown out of Buenos Aires on Tuesday morning (we finally decided to give buses a miss!!) we had a quick stopover at Lima and then caught another flight to Cuzco, capital city of the ancient Inca empire and a massive 3,200 metres above sea level. Everyone we'd spoken to and every book we'd read warned about the potential for altitude sickness in Cuzco. We decided to take our chances without pills (what with vitamins and malaria tablets we're already rattling) and just take it easy once we got here. Upon walking out of the airport we faced a scene similar to the one we'd experienced back in Rio almost 2 months ago. Upon spotting a tourist, ... read more

Hey everyone Since we last updated this site a whole lot has happened so grab a cuppa and read on. You'll notice that we've managed to put more photos on too, so you can see for yourselves what we've been up to this past few weeks. Mendoza was an absolute blast! Loads of things to do in the day, loads of places to go at night, and full of the bright young things of Argentina due to its huge University population. We became the all action foursome over the course of this stage of our trip, which began with horse riding last Saturday. Having never tried horse riding before I for one was pretty pensive. We arrived at the ranch and met 4 other travellers who would be joining us on a "gentle trek through the ... read more

Hi everyone - hope you all had a nice Easter weekend. Our mood has lightened considerably since you last heard from us, not least because we've finally got into Chile at about the 3rd time of asking. As expected, San Martin de los Andes was quiet, really quiet. We spent the best part of two days doing absolutely nothing until our bus to Mendoza on Friday morning. The two day stay was memorable only for the hostel, which was like either a cub camp or a prison, we couldn't make our minds up! We left San Martin on Friday at 11am, had to change buses at a place called Neuquen on Friday evening, and arrived in Mendoza at about 7am on Saturday. Our run of bad luck continued, as we found that there was nowhere to ... read more

I'm sure that I've read somewhere that there are very few life events that stick in the memory into old age. If this is the case, then the four of us filled up one of the few slots on Thursday when we visited Peninsula Valdes. When you last heard from us we'd arrived in Puerto Madryn hoping to see some marine wildlife. The area is most famous for whale watching, but we were told that it wasn't the right time of the year and the only whales we might see if we were lucky were Killer Whales (or Orcas as they are called). As you'll see from the accompanying pictures (as long as I've been able to add them) we were lucky to the extreme. In fact, no end of four leaf clovers, rabbits feet and ... read more