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We finally dragged ourselves from the hammocks in Copacabana and made our way to Peru, where we were looking forward to visiting Cusco the ancient seat of the Inca empire and making the 4 day trek to the lost city of Machu Picchu. We hopped onto the full-to-bursting "Copacabana-Cusco 14 hour Express" early on a sunny afternoon. It was more a mobile clothes shop than bus - huge amounts of warm winter jackets and boxes of the latest running shoes were stuffed into every nook and cranny. Seems like there was a little bit of smuggling going on along the Bolivian-Peru border! 13 hours later and having sat through 4 Dolph Lundgren films (never know why he didn't make it big) we were coming close to Cusco city when we were pulled over by the fiscal ... read more

Hola from South America, It´s been over 5 weeks since Marie and I set off and we are based in Salta in north Argentina at the moment, our last Argentinian stop before we cross into Bolivia. We had planned to make our way to Bolivia via Northern Chile but after 5 days in Chile and not exactly warming to the place, we crossed back over the Andes to Argentina. So, after lots of trekking, overnight bus journeys and only one or two cold showers it finally feels like we have gotten rid of the holiday feeling and now have our travelling boots on. We have really enjoyed Argentina. Our first stop was Buenos Aires and there was a great feel to the city. As you would expect from a capital city of 13 million people it ... read more