Our time in the Atacama desert was amazing. We stayed at a beautiful hotel where every day you could choose to do guided excursions in the morning and in the afternoon out into the dessert, to hot springs, to the salt flats, to geysers, to volcanoes and to dozens of other places. On the first day we went horse riding through the oasis and into the dessert and we all liked that so much that we rode horses every day after as well. The mountains, rock formations and sand dunes of the desert were out favorite things, but we also really loved our trip to the salt flats where we saw beautiful pink flamingos bathing in the salt waters.... read more

Hello everybody! Today we are in Cuzco, as yesterday we left Sacred Valley. Yesterday, after we arrived to our hotel in Cuzco, we took a nice walk to get familiar with our surroundings. In the center of Cuzco we found that there was a wide variety of unique and magnificent shops, from carpets and textiles to delicate Inca jewellery. When we got back we met with the Thompsons (Dave, Anjula, Jaz and Zoe) for a delicious dinner at an Indian place. Today, we continued our lessons for two hours and then spent the remainder of our lesson in the Market of San Pedro. The teachers came with us and we were only allowed to speak Spanish, even amongst ourselves! In the market we found many stalls selling different things such as fruit, jewellery, clothes, seeds, meat ... read more

Hello everybody! I’m sorry that we haven’t written the blog in a while but we’ve been extremely busy and haven’t had the time to desperately search for an internet connection! Currently we are in Urubamba in Peru. Soon we will be visiting Machu Pichu, but right now we are taking 4 hour Spanish lessons in the mornings, and then going for excursions in the afternoon. Yesterday after our Spanish lessons and lunch, we went to Ollantaytambo, an Inca site. It was breathtaking and had really cool layers cut into the mountain called Andenes. We got an interesting idea of Inca architecture, and were really amazed at how advanced in design they were, for example the clever yet beautiful water system. If this was only a fraction of what Machu Pichu is said to be, then we ... read more

Hey everybody! I thought I should start by saying that yesterday after a full day of swimming we experienced an amazing lunar eclipse. Depending on where you guys were at the time, you may or may not have seen it, but for those who didn't it was super cool and the moon turned red! :D So today, we had a full morning of windsurfing and water rides. After a delicious lunc we went to kabaki and we are sleeping here tonight. We swam andndad caught some amazing fish which we had. For dinner with goat. Then we looked at the stars which are very clear tonight -The Lost Tribe... read more

Hey everyone! Sorry we didn't write an entry yesterday- we were tired out after a day of travelling. Anyway yesterday we travelled to Yerevan, and on the way stopped at another beautiful monastery high upon a mountain. Today after we had breakfast, we went to visit the genocide museum, which really opened our eyes. We reccomend you read about the Armenian Genocide. Then we visited the Saryan museum. It is an amazing museum which holds the fascinating works of Saryan, an Armenian painter. Later in the day after a late lunch, we walked around Yerevan some more. We found the city really nice and loved the elegant architecture. We returned to the hotel after our long walk, and decided to settle down with a movie. -The Lost Tribe... read more