Conyac

Hello all, sorry for the recent dry spell blog-wise, we've been awfully busy trying to fit in as much as possible in the time we have left, plus we got rather sick of internet cafes. So after the initial fuss of getting into chile from bolivia (see previous blog) we spent a pretty relaxing 5 days in San Pedro de Atacama - a small village consisting almost entirely of one-storey adobe buildings. We arrived around lunch time and after finding a place to stay walked around the small streets looking for somewhere to eat. this was only complicated by the fact that after we'd ordered our food we realised we had no money. so after 2 attempts I (Tom) managed to get some, only to return to find connie eating my salmon thinking it was chicken! ... read more

Hello all once again, unfortunately this entry is going to be slightly more concise than usual as we're very short on time. who would have guessed rural mountain villages weren't the best place to find a reliable, fast and open internet connection? So since we last blogged we took the bus to tacna on the peru-chile border and then took a colectivo across to arica on the other side. It was with a fond farewell that we left peru, connie especially was sad to leave as shes had so much time to know the country and its people. We also didn't immedietly fall in love with chile as arica is not the most charming place and everything seemed to be closed. Oh and we got ouur first gringo shout of the whole trip. We also struggled ... read more

Hola all! So after our exhausting Inca Trail experience we planned to play it cool for about a week to reboot and relax. Although in the end that meant lots of night bus journeys (possibly the worse way to catch up on sleep) and a growing awareness of time slipping away. Before we took the night bus to puno the day after finishing the inca trail we planned a relaxing day of blogging, laundrying and catching up with some friends made on the trail. The day quickly developed into a maelstrom of organisational chaos - the computers were slow and continuously deleted our attempted photo uploads and finding out bus times and booking them turned out to be much more complicated than planned, meaning we might even miss picking up our laundry. We were given different ... read more

Back so soon? you cry, well we thought we´d split things up, to help out those of you who hate the old really long blogs. After the tour we took we decided to move to a different hostel, and we made a really good choice other than the whole sporadic hot water situation. We have a bigger room, our own bathroom, free internet and kitchen access for cheaper than the other place. We decided to do some of our own cooking while we´re in one place for long enough to save the old pennies. We´ve spent lots of time looking at museums, (mostly the free ones though, and when I say free I mean included in the 130 soles you have to pay if you want to see any tourist attractions in Cusco. However, the best ... read more

Hola from Connie and Tom! Well I arrived in Lima relatively stress free, but all that was about to change! I waited for an hour for my taxi to take me to the hostel and after having phoned them 3 times, quite angrily, they told me I'd have to get my own taxi. This didn't fill me with confidence about them picking up Tom at 11pm, so I kicked up a fuss and managed to get a discount on our room and made sure someone was there for Tom. We didn't plan to stay in Lima for any time at all really because it's absolutely huge (approx population 9 million) so it would take a lot of time and money to see it properly. So on our first day in the morning we walked around the ... read more