Wherever I lay my hat

So after a very very long bus ride we eventually made it to Buenos Aires. I instantly fell in love with the place. From the stunning architecture, the cat park!, the tango and street music everywhere you turned to the cute boutique shops and busy vibrant atmosphere, it had everything you wanted and so many things to do and see that our 4 days wasnt really enough. They are unsurprisingly quite big on Eva Peron, so the afternoon we arrived, we visited the Eva Peron museum, a place that idealized the woman, she really could do no wrong!! We also went to see the cemetery where she was buried. It was like no cemetery I had seen before, hundreds of elaborate crypts side by side, of such a grand size it was like walking around a ... read more

Greetings from Argentina....Ive seen a lot of places since the last blog so I shall start from Salta, our first stop in Northern Argentina. Wow, I really did love Salta. A perfect place to start off in and I was quite upset to leave. Not too big and not too small with a pretty plaza with bundles of al fresco dining and music on the streets. We spent a few days here chilling out and wandering around getting ourselves used to be being back in civilization...traffic lights, paved roads, proper shops and normal flushing toilets with no buckets required, what a treat!. In Salta, we visited an archaelogical museum which is famous for its 500 year old mummified inca child which is on display. A little bit creepy for me, but still, it was amazing how ... read more

Wow, its been so long since Ive written in my blog but I´m back and ready to hopefully fill up a couple of pages with more news..so let me start from our journey since La Paz.... The jungle never happened which was a real shame. We waited and waited for the plane and gave up after 3 days of rain and no sign of us going anywhere. So we decided to head off somewhere else for Christmas and chose Sucre as our destination. This was a 13 hour bus ride on an old public bus with women and children sleeping in the aisles and no toilet!! Oh and did I mention this was Christmas Eve?! SO we managed to witness a Very bad car wreck and get stuck in the mud for a short while, but ... read more

Just a short blog entry for my final stay in Peru. Left Cusco early morning to catch the bus to Puno which only managed to break down once! (luckily another bus was only 30mins away). Arrived in Puno late afternoon to the pouring rain so got the first available hostal, dumped our ever increasing rucksacks (there are too many amazing textiles and jewellery to purchase!) and went for a wander. Puno isnt that beautiful a place, however its very close to Lake Titicaca, in fact a ten minute walk away so it has its benefits! We took a boat over to the floating islands the following morning which were pretty incredible. Made entirely from reeds and populated by the Uros people, it certainly has a sense of calm and tranquility to it. The surfaces were pretty ... read more

Hola, back again! Just thought that I would write a final note before the end of my time in Cusco. Its been a week or 2 since I last wrote and I´ve managed since then to learn some salsa, play the pan pipes, experience mountain biking for the first time (ouch!!) and gain a 40hour intensive spanish school certificate, hooray!! Last weekend we had a day out visiting various Inka ruins near to Cusco (Saqsaywaman, Q´enco, Tambomachay). Saqsaywaman on the saturday was most eventful. We got ourselves a guide on site who showed us around. All was going well until he asked us if we were up for an adventure...so we said yes of course! Big Mistake. He led us into a cave which was pitch black and narrow and suddenly dropped down so we were ... read more