Hola everybody, today is our very first day in Bolivia having arrived across the border this morning, so with that in mind I think we should update you on the last two weeks! Yes, we spent a lot more time in Cusco than we originally planned, but it was definitely worth it. We got to Cusco for the first of August, after a marathon twenty hour bus journey from Lima. We´ve been so lucky with the buses out here, for this journey we had seats that reclined until they were practically beds, non stop movies playing and dinner and breakfast too. For a tenner each, we thought it was worth splashing out! Unfortunately no matter how good a bus you get, mountain roads that are continuous switch-backs at high altitude are not too kind on the ... read more

When we arrived in Peru after flying from Panama City, we landed in Lima. Here we spent about three or four days (our minds have become a bit hazy now!). To be honest, Lima wasn´t our favourite place! Luckily we were staying in a district called Miraflores, which is just outside of the city centre. We say lucky as we felt pretty unsafe when we were in the centre! Lima is a huge, busy and noisy city, and although the centre does have some impressive architecture, on the whole it is pretty ugly and there is so much pollution that there is a constant smog cloud over the entire city. A city without sunshine, no less. Besides losing our tans, the change in temperature from Panama to Peru was a bit of a shock to the ... read more

After leaving Bocas Del Toro, James and I began the journey to Panama City. We caught the water taxi back over to Changuinola and from there took a bus to David, which is in the south-east of Panama. That bus took about four hours but luckily all the transport has been fantastic so far, with air con etc. This journey was fairly uneventful, although the views were amazing. However we did also experience just how dangerous the windy roads can be, passing a huge lorry that had driven straight off the side of the road, and around the very next corner a banana truck that had overturned (quite surreal, bananas everywhere). By the time we reached David it was time to find a room for the night. David is not unlike San Jose with its´bustling, noisy ... read more

Hello again! Well we´re one week into our travels now and it´s so far, so good! When we last wrote we were planning our trip out to the volcano at Arenal. We booked onto a tour that drove us up to Arenal to see the volcano and to visit the hot springs as well as throwing in some food along the way. Luckily we got a really nice air conditioned bus, but it didn´t really help during the five hour journey on unpaved twisty mountain roads! (wasn´t feeling good) When we finally got up there the scenery was amazing, Costa Rica is really lush and green especially the higher you get. The hot springs we visited were almost like a water park, with lots of pools to swim in set in landscaped gardens that were overlooked ... read more