We feel a bit like frauds filling this in now we are back in the UK, but here is the last entry for your enjoyment! After another night in Cuzco we headed off for the Amazon basin and Manu Biosphere Reserve. After another early morning (seems to have been too many of them this trip!) we started out on what would be an 8 hour bus journey up and over the Andes and into the jungle. On the way up we stopped at the highest point to see some pre-inca tombs. There was a restoration project in process which was rebuilding [View Full Entry]

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Sooo, just finished the 4 day Inca trek and we are both absolutely cream crackered! But what an amazing experience. We chose to carry our own backpacks rather than inflict them on a porter - well, you need a challenge dont you. Theres always the worry that you end up with a group of eejits but we had luck on that front. We had a perfect group - a mixture of canadians and English, oh and 1 Slovack. Our guide, Edgar, was fantastic. A man with such pride in his ancestry and his culture. He made the whole experience come alive. [View Full Entry]

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Ok folks, here we go again with another enthralling entry...La Paz was fun, a little crazy, muchos traffic, muchos fumes. The old buses crawling, and i mean crawling, up the steep hills were a sight to see.Travelled to Copacabana on the shore of Lake Titicaca. Not quite the Brazilian version but it did have a beach and it was our finest views of the lake. Took a boat over to Isla Del Sol and spent 2 nights on there. The island is very important from an Inca point of view. They believe it was were the sun was born and where [View Full Entry]

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So, sorry for another delay in updating the blog. We´ve been moving around so much its difficult to keep you up to speed with where we´ve been. After a long bus journey from Pucon we had a brief stay in santiago. Not our favourite city as it holds bad memories from our last visit. We flew into Calama, on the edge of the Atacama desert and near to the border with Bolivia. We stayed for one night in San Pedro De Atacama, a small oasis town in the desert. Very atmospheric little town with lots of bars and restaurants all in [View Full Entry]

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Hello campers. Well, started again. Had a decent journey over, well as decent as a 12 hour flight can be. I have a new method of flying - tranquilizers! Slept for nearly 10 hours without having to resort to alcohol. Heather was out for even longer. If i hadnt woken her she'd probably still be on the flight. BA was as cool as ever, ate about our own body weight in cow and drank some more fantastic wine. Bought a beautiful painting of La Boca (a colourful area of the city) from a market. The artist must have been in his [View Full Entry]

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Sooooooooo, Left Puerto Natales in Chile to go into Torres Del Paine National Park. Was looking forward to 5 days hiking in fantastic scenery. The weather was perfect when we got there, cloudless sky and high temperatures. Just what you need when you are going to be walking up hill for most of the day carrying our big rucksacks. Still, better than wind, rain and snow which is a possibility at any time of year up there. We made it up to the amazing towers (Torres), although the pictures really dont do the size of them any justice. Heather spotted some [View Full Entry]

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El Calafate - Into the Andes! Moved further west and into the foothills of the Andes and the Los Glaciares National Park. El Calafate very much like Banff in Canada so Heather felt at home. Took a day trip to the Perito Moreno glacier - a small chunk of ice of only 20Km long, 5km wide and 60m high......! Although its not advancing, it is the only one in the world not retreating. Its growth is in equilibrium with that lost as melt water. Saw enormous chunks falling off into Lago Argentina (3rd biggest lake in sth America and all glacial [View Full Entry]

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OK, here we go again... Flew into Trelew (old welsh colony - they moved there because they were fed up of the English and it appears most have moved away from here because they were fed up with the Argentinians.....) Stayed in Puerto Madryn, which is on the Valdes Peninsular - a large sea-life reserve on the Atlantic coast. Its where they filmed the famous orca footage of them taking sealion pups from the shore. Its also one of the best places to sea Southern Right Whales. Unfortunately we didn t see any Orcas and its the wrong time of the [View Full Entry]

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Hola We left Iguazu and headed for the Iberas Marshes - this was kind of my idea because of the fantastic wildlife on offer. We knew it would be a long trek but not quite as bad as it was - a ten hour bus journey, followed by a 3 hour bus journey, followed by another 3 hours bus journey (this time in a very old, beat up bus on a very rough gravel track that kept dissapearing into vast pot holes). Anyway after all that i can say that it was utterly worth it. The wildlife was unbelievable - Capybaras [View Full Entry]

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Just spent three days at Iguazu falls, so beautiful. Tried to also take a full moon walk but it was too cloudy in the evenings. We spent two days on the Argentinian side and one on the Brazil side. Both spectacular. Just finished a 10 hour bus journey to Corrientes (Northern Argentina) and now waiting for another bus to take us Mercedes so we can go into the Esteros del Ibera which are the wetlands in the area - should have some great wildlife. [View Full Entry]

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