Well I am almost home and it is a bit of a tease being so close but yet still another 4.5hour flight away from all the things familiar.. but absolutely awesome to hear that English is now the first language spoken and I can understand everything around me. I had my big bit of steak and have gorged myself stupid after realizing that I REALLY did miss the food that we have back at home!.. London just doesn’t quite compare with the meat quality we have here in Australia (unless you want to spend several pounds more on organic things that [View Full Entry]

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Puno town itself is nothing much special besides having many places to dine and to book tours from and the facilities to change money. It does have a beautiful asset though, that being the base to settle and leave your bags in storage for the night while heading out to the islands on Lake Titicaca. I arrived by bus from Cusco late afternoon on the 19th May and booked into a tour the following day for a 2 day, 1 night venture to the closest 3 islands to Puno. They are Isla Uros, Isla Amantani and Isla Taquile.. (not to be [View Full Entry]

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It is sitting on the balcony of my 5 star hotel that I look out across Lake Titicaca and really consider the size of this Lake. To think that the day before I was in Peru and after a 3 hour bus ride with water the view from the window most of the way it is still the same water body that I am looking at and again, to the horizon, water is all that I can see. Copacabana is the border town of Bolivia adjacent to Peru and is the spot that I had planned to do absolutely nothing for [View Full Entry]

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The Sacred Valley is a pretty common day tour that visitors to Cusco head out on. The tour itself leaves from Cusco town and takes in the sights of the Urubamba Valley, which is about an hour from Cusco and includes the area between the Inca communities of Pisac and Ollantaytambo. On the list of sights for the day are the markets of Pisac, several Inca ruins, lunch, a church, the town of Ollantaytambo and sunset over the hills. On the tour the first stop was Pisac and the markets and the option to walk up a hill and look at [View Full Entry]

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Heading back south of this massive continent Ive found myself in Cusco.... arriving on the 13th and all by my lonesome once again.... it feels wierd not to have a travelling buddy now and someone to share ALL the experiences with...!!.... although am happy to hear that Owen got back home safe and sound to his little Island.. and with his 6ft paddles!!.. My (second) camera (first and my good one was stolen while in Brazil) died the morning of the trip up to Machu Pichu so all of my artistic flair is now on the 3 x 27 800film in [View Full Entry]

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After waking at 3.30am on the 10th May for a taxi ride across the border again to Tabatinga, Brazil, we boarded a canoe at 4am for the short trip to Santa Rosa, Peru for the passport check and stamps and the departure of the fast boat to Iquitos, Peru for the 10 hour journey even further upstream as we both had flights out on the 12th of May. Arrived the 10th of May.. Iquitos is a cool little town. With a main central square and an eclectic mix of people we found that we were back on the tourist loop for [View Full Entry]

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After the boat journey that left us in Tabatinga we headed across the border to Leticia, Columbia. As advised by our travel bibles, Leticia is a little more established for tourist visitors and has far more facilities as well as being the place to book jungle tours from. After having limited time in Manaus we still needed to head into the jungle and do what almost every other tourist does while in the Amazonas region, a jungle tour... so we booked ourselves into a 3 day, 2 night adventure into the Colombian Jungle.... this was of course after one day of [View Full Entry]

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As one of the previous blogs mentioned, we were a little dubious as to where our hammocks were going to be hung when on board the slow boat for the 7 day trip up the Amazon River to Tabatinga......and if, with all the cargo we saw being loaded on board it would not sink halfway through the journey.... as you can guess by recieving this email that we did in fact make it to dry land... and what a GREAT feeling that was!! The boat journey went like this.... April 28; 8am we arrived early (as advised by our travel bibles) [View Full Entry]

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Just a real quick one, sorry no photos as many computers do not have cd drives. After a brief stopover in Fortaleza and pretty short flight that deviated through Belem we have made it Manaus. Manaus is located halfway up the Amazon, pretty much smack bang between the mouth of the river at Belem (coastline) and Tabatinga, the border city, Brazillian side to Peru.. Today we did a day trip to check out the point where the Amazonas and the Rio Negro meet, which is pretty cool phenomenon as the water from each river is a different colour - yellow & [View Full Entry]

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Just a few photos from Forteleza where we spent a few days and the day trip out of Manaus to the meeting of the rivers before we boarded our boat.. ... the boat journey is in the next blog.. We only had a couple days in Fortaleza and thanked our lucky stars that there was sunshine to soak up on our one last day by the coast before heading inland to Manaus.. Fortaleza is in the state of Ceara in Brazil and is the furthest point north along the coastline that we set foot on. It is a pretty sleep town [View Full Entry]

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