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Hi everyone, So we have arrived finally after a rather long and tiring journey in Lima our offical final stop on our journey in south america and to be honest we are more than a little devestated :( (not that we dont want to see u all from home of course ;D ). Seeing as we havent had that many comments on here we are not actually sure if anyone is reading this but for those of you dedicated followers ie Ruth, Nick, Sally, the two Johns, the Pikes and possibly the siblings we felt we couldnt leave without completing our story ! (although we will try and include a sneaky one from Cuba im sure ; ), any excuse to blabber haha) Right so we left you back in Cusco, which we are still finding ... read more

well hey everyone, So yes once again another month has past and we have moved onto another country ! Peru our final destination in South America who can believe it seriosuy and we are now half way through july lordddis time really does fly. La Paz ... possibly our least favourite city since weve been here which is a bit of a shocker Nat decided that everytime we went there she was ¨ depressed´ which weve decided is never good haha. but neways we stayed at an awsome hostel first with a free beer everynight and all u can eat american style pancakes with dulce de leche for breaky so we where pretty happy with that. our first few days in la paz where spent exploring on the saturday there was a massive festival there with ... read more

hola chicas ! Right so we no we have neglected our blog, quiet a bit and thought it was about time for a small (yer right) update hahaha. we have just arrived in la paz waiting for a dorm bed atm so story time we feel - although please keep comments and messages from home as they do excite us somewhat. so where did we leave off ahh yes valapariso which was fun and chilled for a few days. then we headed back across to the much loved argentina for our last stint there first off to wine country mendoza !! We got on some bikes (mr hugos) and then cycled around for two days, in the end, visitng different vineyards, needless to sya nat and i are not quiet the red wine conconsoirs u may ... read more

hi everyone from Chile ! we know its been a while since our last update - cant believe that was beunos aires :s but its been non stop adventuring and exploring since then ! We realise our last entries were a tad long so going to try and keep this short and consise so you guys actually manage to read the whole thing haha! Quickly quickly then we moved to palermo a really cool part of beunos aires for two nights it totally reminded us of soho new york all converted old factories and run down buildings on the outside and cool cafes and modern shops inside. We spent time with two guys from Denmark while we were there and even went with them to la cabrera which was awsome thanks lotte although typical beunos aires ... read more

Hola from Argentina !! Hi everyone hope all is well, thought it was about time for another update especially as since we last spoke we've moved on from Brazil to Argentina. Cant quiet remeber where we left off, but the rest of paraty was fun had a nice night out with a load of people from our hostel and even managed to get an improptude samba class in the middle of the club which was pretty fun although surficed to say we are still pretty awful. After paraty we headed off for a bit of wilderness exploring in the pantanal a wetland with supposadly brazils best wildlife. we managed the bus journey great as the seats are pretty luxurious before heading to campo grande to organise our tour. we went for two nights and three days ... read more

Hi everyone, So we are writing this from Paraty a small beach village with loads of islands surrounding it just south of Rio, we have just got back from a day long boat trip relaxing and sunbathing andd we and one other guy on r trip were lucky eough to see a turtle snorkling today which was amazzing and we saw dolphins on our way back, swimming along in pairs ! so all in all a pretty incedible day ! Anways what weve been up to so on arrival we were in a really nice area of of rio ipanema and met loads of lovely people in our hostel and have been traveling round with a few of them. The first day we cycled round a lake in rio and walked from ipaema to cocopanana beach ... read more

Hey Guys, Thought we'd start a little earlier this year with our blogging.. sure you all missed us heheh! So we are currently in the middle of trying to pack .. for five months in a rucksack not the easiest of missions to begin haha Were off on the 31st so a week today who can belive it !. Hoping to see most of you before we gooooo, but make sure you all keep in touch ! Love all the comments so get keen with them please :)Hehe Well I Guess we shall update you once weve arrive ... scareeeeyyy yet soo exciting. Love Nat and Laura xx... read more

Hey everyone! Just thought would quikcly update the blog again since we've moved on a couple of times since the last one! Arrived safely in Xi'an after a 16 hour train journey on a hard seat (which made my bum very numb after only a couple of hours!!), managed to sleep surprisingly more than when we had the luxury soft sleepers last long journey though haha, and woke up to find Laura doing sudoku puzzles with half the train crowded around our seats learning how to play and ripping out pages of her puzzle book to do themselves!! This entertained us for the rest of the journey fortunately! Pretty happy I was able to check into the hostel - can't remember how much we said last time - but to cut a long story short in ... read more

hey guys so i have to try and be really speedy less than 10 mins left of net time so here goes ( excuse the usual typos) first thanks soo much for all ur messages bnat and i love them and they deffo bring us a bit of home making us very happy and smiley and sure u can all imagine nats "cutttttttttttttttttttttteeeeeee" with every message haha. so were still in chengdu leavig tonight to xi'an r first reall stop on the tourist path to see the terricota warriors we have seen the pandas here which were very cute but those of u who did geog with us will no how much mrs gilman hated them and have to admit she was kinda rite they r really stupid !!! then we met some awsome guys from ... read more

hi guys quick update so had an amazing time in yuang shou we managed to climb two mountains and visited some water caves in our three days which as u can imagine was pretty jam packed. we started with a river trip along the li river which was beautiful ad teh setting of the pic of the 20 yuan note here then we stopped off to see a local market i was pretty worried as we seemed to taker a wrong turn down the meat isle and literally blindfolded nat to stop her from seeing her anythign which could put her off anything surficed to say thigns were going on in all directions dogs chickedns being weighed and slaughtered pigs hooves it wasnt great hahah but nat survived pretty unscathed!! we met some great people in ... read more