Tony and Amy

Bolivia has been a total blast from start to finish. After leaving Copacabana we went to La Paz to meet up with our group. Everyone is really nice, the group includes brits, Americans, canadians, french canadians and south americans. La Paz was manic but in a great way. We walked about town and visited the witches market where you could pick up potions, charms and even llama foetuses. obviously we bought dozens! They are buried under new homes for good luck. and after leaving there we went to Cochabamba. There wasn´t much to do there but it was carnival time so went spent the three days there being pelted with water balloons left right and centre. They must get extra points for getting gringos! When dry, we spent the rest of our time drinking Bolivian red ... read more

After a few relaxing days in Cusco, we decided to get back at it and go see the lost Inca city of Machu Picchu. the easiest way to get to machu Picchu is by train from Cusco, but this is extremely expensive. Its about 50 dollars one way. So we decided to make our own way there. Its a bit of a trek. First we caught an early bus to a place called Santa Maria which took about 6 hours. got to use my new pen knife for the first time. Very excited. We had jam rolls. We then transfered into smaller people carriers to take us to Santa Teresa and then onto a hydro electrical plant. Amy, myself and a bunch of Chilean students all crammed in with a few locals and we set off. ... read more

Lima was fantastic and a great introduction to Peru. If we had more time we definately would have stayed longer. We left Hotel Espana, which was very nice and caught a bus to a town called Pisco (famous for a drink called th Pisco sour, we are sampling them tonight in fact). We got off the bus to find that we were in a place called Ica, about 75 km past Pisco. No one thought to tell the two gringo´s where to get off! By the way, when in Lima, a little girl walked past us, smiled and said "Ola gringo´s." We got back on another bus and went back down the road to Pisco. It´s a nice little that was decimated by a huge earth quake 2 years ago. Still lots of ruins and we ... read more

Kerala is a large place so deciding where to venture for our next adventure was difficult. We had been given loads of places to investigate but set on a place called Kochi or Cochin. We arrived by train into a place called Ernakulam and caught a tuc tuc to Fort Kochi which is about an 8km drive away. Not having booked any accomodation, we were unsure whether we would find anywhere to lay our sleepy heads but fort Kochi is a bustling tourist place with a variety of different types of accomodation. There are several expensive looking hotels to stay at if your budget allows, or you can barter with a homestay and get a decent room from between 300-600 Rs. We alighted off our tuc tuc and were immediately met by Sabu who insisted that ... read more

Had to keep the title on a musical theme again, you'll find out why as you read this interesting entry. After much deliberation about whether we stopped at Mumbai on our way to Kerala or not, we decided that our plans had to continue. The attacks in Mumbai made us seriously consider whether we were safe to venture there, but we knew that we couldn't come all this way and not see this wonderful city. The police presence had been stepped up several notches and our reasoning was that this was probably one of the safest times to go. We're glad that we stopped there, if only for a short while and would reccomend what Mumbai has to offer. It was a bustling city (albeit expensive) with many friendly and approachable people and cosmopolitan bars. The ... read more

shimla was fantastic and we left there very happy. Since our last post, which was a bit rushed, we got talking to a professor in an Indian coffee house and he asked if we could meet that night for a chat. We agreed and met him in the same coffee house that night. He was great to talk to and very interested in our travels and how we perceived India so far. He was also a bit eccentric bless him. He was on at me to teach yoga to people. Yes yoga! I tried to explain that i was about as flexible as a piece of two by four, but he wasn't having any of it. I was to go straight back to blighty and start teaching (and charging) people for my unique style of non ... read more