gonewalkabout

Hello friends and family, We are currently sitting on the beach in Equador, after making our way through Northern Peru. However, I must start where I left off........The Bolivian/Peru border. We thought some trouble might arise as we were 10 days over our visa, but thanks to the Custom officers poor math skills and Alanas tears, we were able to cross without issues. We travelled down to Arequipa, Perus second largest city (Sits at the base of Mt Misti, a snow capped volcanoe). After of few days of relaxing by the pool and eating nice foods we were off again. Onto ANOTHER bus and back up into high altitudes. This time to the famous city of Cusco. Insert small history lesson>>>> There are sooooo many churches in Cusco because when the spanish destroyed an Inca 'temple' ... read more

Bloody Bolivia PART 1, Hey friends and family, Where to start? Crossed the border into Bolivia without hassels and made it to the wild wild west town of Tupiza. This is where Buch Cassidy aqnd the Sun Dance Kid where finally killed. Of course we had to do some old fashioned horse riding, so we put on our best cowboy clothes and set out on a ride through the canyon. Cut a long story short, a flash flood come down the canyon and strait into us. Horses and people were screaming and Ian (lying half on his horse, with a horrified look on his face) flew off down the valley as his spooked horse went crazy. (sooooo funny) We found Ian walking horseless, covered in blood and mud!!! Sooooooooooooo funny. From tupiza we booked a 4 ... read more

After leaving Rio we joined forces with Mike and Tamsin (a lovely english couple), and made our way over to the Island paradise of Ilha Grande. It is a rather large island with no roads and no cars. The main activities are hiking, boat tours and beaches. After jumping off our unreliable boat, alana and paul walked down the beach and up some hills to their lovely hostel. We bluffed our way into an all you can eat buffet and had three plates between the six of us (and various street cats and dogs). Our dinner on the headland turned into a night club and after a couple of drinks we got our shake on. The next day we took an hour long boat ride through some magic scenery (as the photos will show). A 30 ... read more

Dear family and friends, This is section 2 of the latest travel blog and it involves one week in LA and one week in Salvador, Brazil. SO.........We hit the frog and toad and flew out of London, only to spend 14hrs in the freezing cold airport of Rome (damnnnn you Rome and the weird people creeping around and standing over me while I pretent to sleep and then move away when I open me eyes and give you my angry look). From Rome we fly back towards france, changed plane and flew over Iceland, Canada and into the States. Alana, POaul, Jackie and Ian met back up at a hostel/motel in inglewood...near compton (gansta area!!!). The place was strait out of fear and loathing in los vegas, with wierd carpets, strange people and odd habits (We ... read more

Dear family and friends, This travel blog as been six weeks in the coming and although that might not constitute much in Australian time, it feels like a life time has passed. I will not bore you with pages of text, I will however let our photos speak to you. I was once the reciever of a travel blog and on many occassions I just looked at the photos and captions. There are 81 photos on here guys......have a look :) ASIA: 1 month For the interested parties I will give a run down of our travels so far. I landed in Bangkok and met up with Alana, Ian and Jackie. We caught a sleeper train up into Northern Thailand to a city called Chaing Mai. We went on elephant rides, hill tribe trecks and bamboo ... read more