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 [View Full Entry]

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When was the last time that you got caught up in a political demonstration, visited an island made from reeds, had lunch with an Inca family, bathed in hot springs, watched condors flying and got woken up by an earthquake - all in the space of 6 days? As you can tell, we've had an action packed week, which began with the bus trip from Cuzco to Puno (closest town to Lake Titicaca) last Friday. The bus was due to take 6 hours, and we boarded on Friday morning expecting to be in Puno late afternoon in time to book a [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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Thought some of you might appreciate an entry of piccies from when we went back to BA, as there wasn´t much space on any of the other entries. So here it is, in all it´s drunken glory. AC [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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Good afternoon everyone The four amigos are warming ourselves up for an afternoon riding horses in the mountains of Mendoza, which will be challenging enough given that none of us speak horse and we don't know the words in Spanish for the various commands. Let me jump back a few days, to another country. After the initial excitement upon arrival in Santiago, Chile, we had a pretty busy few days there. Sunday was a hungover day, as we were saving our energy for Monday when we hoped to get a taste of what Chile was all about. It seems that the [View Full Entry]

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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, [View Full Entry]

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Brace yourselves - this is gonna be a long one! Since seeing sealions be cut off in their prime we've been up to all sorts, not least trekking, fishing, drinking, travelling and more drinking. Today is a bad day, hence the title and if you're patient enough to read to the end of this entry you'll know why. From Puerto Madryn we went to a place called El Calafate, where the last diary entry was written from. The big appeal of El Calafate is the Perito Moreno glaciar, a quite phenomal natural landmark slapbang in the middle of a lake. We [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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Just a quickie as we're running late for a bus. We've loaded up some new photos for your enjoyment and hope to add a few more on our next stop. These include some pretty awesome piccies from our day on Peninsula Valdes yesterday, more of which will be revealed soon. AC [View Full Entry]

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