Buenos Nochas Blog Readers! So this is our final blog of this incredible journey. We´ve found a really nice hostel in Lima (just down the road from the Stop and Drop Inn but a hundred times better!). We´ve just found out that the airport charges a 92 Soles tax on anybody going on international flights so to save us having to withdraw any money from an ATM (which costs about $5 a time) we´re saving our pennies big time! It should be possible to get through tomorrow on the money we have though! We landed in Puerto Maldonado airport on Monday [View Full Entry]

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Greetings Blog Readers! I think I signed off last time before we went off to Machu Picchu so I´ll fill you in on the details! Machu Picchu is basically why everybody comes to Peru, and really, South America. It was an ancient Inca City perched high in the mountains and was discovered by Hiram Bingham at the start of the 20th Century (although apparently many people knew about it before him but he was American, rich and important so everybody took notice once he´d found it!). Consequently, it is a huge draw for tourists, and hence, money for the country. This [View Full Entry]

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Hola Blog Readers, Worried Parents and Bowel-Movement Enthusiasts, I wrote the last blog just before we went out for a meal in Puno I seem to remember. We found a nice little restaurant down a back alley which gave a really good set menu for 15 Soles. We walked outside and this man I recognised was walking past us. I thought he was one of my old primary school teachers but it turned out to be the actor who plays Max Scully from the Australian soap Neighbours. Laura said I played it cool and didn´t look like too much of an [View Full Entry]

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Hola Blog Readers! We´ve just come back from three spectacular days in Bolivia. We set off from Puno just after breakfast on Thursday morning for a coach ride to Copacobana. It only cost 10 Soles for the 3 hour trip. Once there we booked a boat ride across to the small island called Isla Del Sol where we would be spending the night. We had a look at few of the shops and bought some horrible food before getting on the 1.5 hour boat ride. It was quite choppy at the start but the views of the islands were amazing, the [View Full Entry]

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Hola Blog Readers! We thought we´d send a quite blog update before we go to Bolivia tomorrow as we don´t really know what the internet situation is. In fact, I don´t think they have electricity on the island we´re staying on! After getting back from the trek we realised that we´d only booked one bus ticket from Arequipa to Puno so we had to cancel that (no refund!) and get on the ´recommended´Julsa bus for half the price. The recommendation in the guide book and from the hostel clearly didn´t get us prepared for what was to come! We left Casa [View Full Entry]

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Buenos Dias! We've literally just got back from our 3 day trek! We thought we should fill you in on whats been happening! On Thursday night we got a coach out of Lima which would take us to Arequipa overnight. We set off at 6pm and arrived in Arequipa at around 10am. The coach trip was fine. They served us dinner and breakfast and we got to watch some movies. I think Laura put a request in because none other than The Little Mermaid was put on in the morning! There was only a little leg room for old lanky here [View Full Entry]

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Hola! We´re finally here in Peru! I guess our trip actually started on Tuesday when we went into London and spent the day with April seeing the sights and not being able to find a Nando´s anywhere! We had a nice stay at the Jury´s Inn hotel at Hatton Cross station so it was very close to Heathrow and we were able to get to and from London for the day. We woke up yesterday at 5am and got one of the first tubes out to Terminal 4 at 6am before getting on the plane to Houston, Texas which arrived at [View Full Entry]

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Bonjourno Blog Readers! We're just packing for our trip to Peru and thought we should send out a 'taster' blog for anybody thinking of following us on our travels. If you're reading this then save the link so you can get to it quickly each time we update it! I think it should be http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Tink-And-Laura/ . The plan of action is to fly into Lima, get a coach to Arequipa then move to Puno before spending a few days in Bolivia via Copacabana and La Paz. We'll then visit Cusco and Machu Picchu before flying to Puerto Maldonado in the Amazon [View Full Entry]

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Good evening/afternoon blog readers! So this is the final blog from India! Absolutely gutted and it's gone far too quickly! We had a mental day of travelling yesterday. We got up at 7am and got a rickshaw to the bus stop 1km away for 30Rps and then we got a bus to Trivandrum which is about 100km away for 34Rps - doesnt really make any sense. We then got a plane from Trivandrum to Chennai and then from Chennai to Delhi before getting a taxi to our hotel for 200Rps. The flight to Delhi was absolutely epic. We were with Jet [View Full Entry]

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Hello blog readers, I'm absolutely gutted because I did an amazing blog 2 days ago in Goa and just as I clicked publish I got onto a screen saying I'd logged out and the blog hadn't been published. Laura doesn't want me to sit re-writing another blog (because she gets bored sat here watching me read it - I told her to go out into the night and try and get mugged - she didn't find it funny but I know my Dad would have told me to do the same thing). Anyways, I guess we'll just have to tell you [View Full Entry]

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