Iquitos to Rio - 2 Months On New Years day I flew back to peru and a couple of days later flew to the city of Iquitos, a jungle city with no road access, and it was from here that I set off down the amazon. It took 2 boats and 4 days to arrive at the tri-border with Colombia, Peru and Brazil, the first boat was a large boat which held way to many passengers and too much cargo, meaning it stopped every 10 minutes to unload something but it was great sleeping in my hammock. The second boat ride was unexpected as I thought the first would go to the border but instead it stopped in Cabalocoche, a tiny jungle village where the locals surrounded me and some other travellers from Chile. After ... read more

Peru - 3 Months I flew from San Jose back to the Uk for 2 weeks and then straight to Lima, Peru. A night in Lima then a 23 hour bus ride to arrive in Cuzco. We spent a few days here visiting the local ruins and enjoying the facilities in Cuzco to acclimatize to the altitude, the Sacsayhuamán ruins were particularly impressive. We left Cuzco, for the Inca trail start, at midnight due to the affect of transport strikes and a few kilometres from the start we encountered a road block and were surrounded by protesters, who knifed/slashed our tyres. The guides set up camp on the road-side and we had to walk to the beginning of the inca trail next morning, an extra 6 km walk to the beginning of the tour. The ... read more

Honduras - 4 Months I spent 4 months in Honduras, spending 3 of those scuba diving on the Carribbean island of Utila. Before heading to Utila we visited and camped out in the Celaque National Park, next to gracias, with its pretty cloud forests and four mountain peaks. After the park I went to Utila, originally only for a week but I loved the diving so much I decided to stay and train to be a divemaster. I did tonnes of diving, with plenty of drinking mixed in, and saw turtles, a 9ft nurse shark, some whale sharks between 20-30 feet, some lesser spotted rays, sea horses, squid, many dolphins and tonnes of pretty fish. After I had completed my divemaster I stayed and worked for 3 or 4 weeks before leaving the island to continue ... read more

Mexico - 5 Weeks We flew to Chihuahua, in the North of Mexico and from here went to Creel to visit the canon del cobre, a series of canyons which are collectively bigger than the Grand canyon. We lost a couple of days to the local alcohol, a kind of paint stripper at $1.50 for a litre that destroyed our desire to move and get out of bed. A train ride, a 9-in-a-taxi-ride and a couple of bus rides later we arrived in Guadalajara to spend a couple of nights and explore the colonial buildings and start the collection of many "colonial" buildings I would see on this trip, and indeed, in my life. Next stop was Mexico city, a cool city with its green VW beetle taxis and historical buildings. We were there for a ... read more

Alaska - One Month My travel career all started on the 2nd of September 2002, I left Heathrow airport and, 25 hours and 3 flights later, arrived in Anchorage. The views from the windows for the final 2 hours of the flight were amazing, you could see glaciers and the shape of the land as we flew over beautiful snow-capped mountains. After a couple of days in Anchorage to acclimatise we headed north to Denali National Park, and after some bear-procedure training we set off into our allocated 50 square mile area and we went “Into The Wild”. We spent 4 days hiking around this area, following a river up into the mountains and back again. We saw 6 bears, 5 from a distance and one I saw up close and personal. It was at the ... read more