After a few days relaxing back in Cuzco following our jungle expedition we hopped on a bus and headed down to Puno (near the Bolivian border) - destination Lake Titicaca. This is one impressive expanse of water sitting at 12,500ft above sea level and covering over 8,000 sq km, it is both the highest lake in the world and the largest lake in South America. Fed by five rivers that flow from the snow capped peaks of the Andes mountains that surround it, its waters are considered sacred to the locals and refered to as the 'Womb Of The World', its [View Full Entry]

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Well hiya folks here goes again! Hope everyone is good and well - as you are already aware I was writing my El Salvador blog whilst waiting for the connecting flight to Cuzco, Peru. Since then we have been upto a fair bit and I will write a dedicated Cuzco blog a little later, but before that let me get you upto date a bit before I do more stuff and get even further behind with my blogging.... We eventually arrived in Cuzco after a lot of waiting around at Lima airport. Wow - what a difference in climates - coming [View Full Entry]

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Hehe.. . had to get them Athlete lyrics in there... We did actually know why we were going to El Salvador and what for - Claire was pretty much whacked out following her Shamanic training, and we decided a couple of weeks by the coast was the order of the day before continuing our journeys through the rest of Central America. After finding a fabulous retreat in the pages of the trusty local Revue Mag we headed out of Antigua by coach and slipped across the border into El Salvadors capital - San Salvador. Having read many scare stories of tourists [View Full Entry]

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Hola everybody, hope alls good and well wherever you are :o) I am determined to get up to date with this blogging lark as we have just arrived in Lima, Peru today 1st October, and am currently writing this whilst waiting for the connecting flight to take us to Cuzco. We have spent the last 2 weeks in El Salvador (blog to follow shortly) and so here I am here trying to get you up to speed on what's been going down. Leaving Lake Atitlan was a hard thing to do, we had planned on cruising through Antigua in a few [View Full Entry]

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Hi again... I'm getting lazier and lazier with this (my homework).... Hope everyone is good and well as per usual... Happy Birthday everyone I've managed to miss *Hangs head in shame*. Yes, Happy Belated Birthday wishes to Carl, David, Jamie, Matt, Paul and Maz - Real sorry! I’m sure you had a blast without me though eh? Well it's a little later than previously mentioned in my earlier blog from Xela but hey, I’m busy doing nothing - okay! Heading out from Xela on a tourist shuttle bus to Lake Atitlan was an experience in itself, at the time of our [View Full Entry]

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Hola, Hola, Hola.... Long time since I've done this.... Hope everyone is good and well and enjoying the summer as much as I am. You might be wondering what I've been upto over the past month and a half - so I'm gonna break it down into two parts. We left the beautiful Flores & Lake Peten and headed down south towards the mountainous regions of the country and stayed at Quetzaltenango or Xela - pronounced Shayla (as its locally known) for about 6 days before we journeyed a couple of hours drive away to the famous Lake Atitlan where we [View Full Entry]

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Hey up everyone, hows good old blighty this fine summer? Is it all good? Just to make you feel better I can report that it's not always fair and rosy here either. We are currently in the mountains again and I'm writing this in retrospect, but we have experienced some very cold nights, epic tropical storms, an attack of killer hail stones (the size of chick peas) and I'm happy to say that I've survived my first earthquake (it was only a tiny tremor - but still made you think... OMG!) anyway back to the plot.... We left Belize and the [View Full Entry]

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Well we finally managed to drag ourselves out of Mexico on the very last day of our 90 day tourist visa (sob - viva Mexico!). We ended up going back down Mexico's east coast and journeying through Chetumal which has a border crossing into Belize, and then continuing onwards into Belize City. The border crossing was a doddle, just had to get off the bus go through imigration and then get back onto the bus and away..... As we were not going back into Mexico we didn't even have to pay any tax (you pay when leaving Belize). Belize was formerly [View Full Entry]

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Ok, I know I said in my last blog that I wasn't going to write much here.... Well looks like I've gone on a bit again... Sorry.... Please excuse my rantings..... I'm not going to give a blow by blow account of all the fabulous ruins at Chichen Itza, instead I've tried to give an insight into the Maya and how they saw the world and what they believed in. Chichen Itza is a truly impressive site. When planning our trip to Mexico it was always at the top of my list of places to see. So with real anticipation, [View Full Entry]

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Hey up once again! I'm not gonna be writing much this time as I've written plenty over the last few blogs. Basically we headed from Tulum to Valladolid which is a small town in the central Yucatan so I was striking distance from my main Mexico "must see" of Chichen Itza and also the local Ek Balam Maya Ruins. We stayed at a great hotel on the zocalo called Hotel Maria De Luz which had its own swimming pool and a great little restaurant that served regional and generic Mexican dishes at real decent prices - beats Tulum's inflated beach prices [View Full Entry]

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