Having survived a mammoth 22 hour coach journey from Pt. Iguazu to Cordoba, I arrived at a nice little hostel near the centre of the city. The people there that owned it were very welcoming( and best of all spoke good English - which makes life a whole lot easier). In fact so welcoming that we2 were invited to join them in one of their BBQ's that night ( I think they call it Empanadas there) - These BBQ's basically involve throwing the best part of a cow( in fact all parts of a cow) onto a BBQ, and then doing [View Full Entry]

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I have just spent the last two days in Puerto Iguazu in Argentina, to visit the famous Iguazu Falls. On the first day I took the trip to see them from the Argentinian side, as well as take in a 'Deliverence' type trip down the river ( just to reaquaint myself with my friends the mosquitos!), and a speedboat trip that includes getting 'baptized' ( in other words getting soaked) under a couple of the waterfalls. - that was fun, but taking a change of clothes might have been handy, as I had to spend a couple of hours sunning myself [View Full Entry]

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I arrived in Argentina on Wednesday, after flying from Cuzco. That was bizzarre in itself - I had to take a flight firstly to Lima, where I had less than an hour to get off the plane, go and pay my international departure tax, queue to go through immigration and get on my next flight. I just managed to make it, having had my bags searched twice. I then realised that my second flight to Buenos Aires was on exactly the same plane that I had just gotten off of., so I´d spent an hour running around the airport, just to [View Full Entry]

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I arrived in Cusco last Wednesday, and I immediately went and tries to sort out a 4 day trek to Choquequirao, which are the other set of Inca ruins that they are still discovering. Everything looked to be on track, we had managed to cobble together 4 people for the trek - Great. Then the following evening - just 10 hrs before leaving I was told that one of the group had altitude sickness, and so all 3 of them were pulling out of the trek! - No trek!!! Having already booked my onward flight to Argentina I was not happy, [View Full Entry]

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Well it's been a while since my last entry, and since then I've left Arequipa and travelled up to Lima ( only 15 hrs!). I spent a couple of days in Lima in a very nice suburb called Miarflores. It was nice to be at sea level, and the nightlife was good - had a good night out with a couple of English and Australian travellers. After Lima, I travelled up to a small place called Olliantaytambo, which was quite a trek - 18hrs on a coach to Cuzco, then a 2hr local bus to Urubamba and then finally one of [View Full Entry]

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Having arrived in Arequipa ( a nice change to be only 2300m ASL), it was straight off on a tour to the Colca Canyon - now believed to be the deepest canyon in the world. We drove out across the mountains, passing various sights on our way to a small town called Chivay which would be our base for the next couple of days. The hostel that I was staying in had some interesting residents - I had a herd of sheep for company outside my room! We spent a couple of hours in some hot springs just outside Chivay, which [View Full Entry]

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Having arrived in Puno yesterday, i've had an eventful 24hrs. I went out for a few drinks last night, with some people I had met. That was fine ,but when I stumbled back to my hotel I found that the place had been locked up, and there was not a sole in sight. It was only the appearance of couple of inebriated locals that saved the day, by starting to throw things at the windows - this seemed to do the trick, and I finally got to my room and bed. No more than 3-4 hours sleep later and I had [View Full Entry]

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Having arrived in Copacobana, via another of Bolivias lovely buses!! I found my hotel ,and it was literally on the shores of Lake Titicaca - The view was superb. I arranged to go on a boat trip over to the Isle Del Sol the following day - The island was believed to be the the birthplace of the sungod of the Incas. It was a lovely bu gruelling day, as it involved trekking up and down mountain peaks at over 4000m above sea level, for about 10km. I was a dead man crawling by the end of the day, and was [View Full Entry]

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I have now worked my way up to La Paz, by way of a rather rickety overnight train from Uyuni to Oruro, and then a 4 hr bus journey into La Paz. The bus journey even had entertainment included - in the form of some sort of mad Bolivian preacher, who spent the entire journey trying to convert us all to some type of religion that could have been anything with my knowledge of Spanish. Once there I decided that it wasn't a good place to not know where you are going, as every street involved either a sharp uphill walk [View Full Entry]

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I decided to take a 3 day jeep trip from San Pedro across Salar De Uyuni to Uyuni in Bolivia, and what an amazing trip it turned out to be. We departed at 8am in a bus to take us through Chillean border control and then Bolivian border control. We ended up waiting for about 2 hrs on the Chillean side, as the border guards seemed to have decided that everyone else in the queue would go in front of us. Once we were through that it was about an hours ride to the Bolivian border control - or as it [View Full Entry]

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