Last night was yet another nightbus journey for me, this time to Sucre, the official capital of Bolivia. It was supposed to take around ten hours but two hours into the ride, the bus broke down in the absolute middle of nowhere. We had to wait another 2 hours for a replacement to arrive. When the new bus turned up, it was a bit bigger so I was lucky enough to have two seats to myself and was able to curl myself into a ball across them and sleep. That is until a girl trying to sell corn decided to take a seat on my head and then upon awakening, a man asked if the seat was free and I had to give it up. Good while it lasted though. 17 hours after leaving Cochabamba on ... read more

So far, I´m loving Bolivia. It´s completely different to Peru, very cheap and has a whole lot of character. Today, I visited the witches market which was cool but weird. It sells pretty much anything you can think of including potions. lotions, jewellery, clothes, rugs, and of course... shrunken, dried, dead llamas. Shame it didn´t fit in my rucksack otherwise, I definitely would have bought one of those back to hang in the living room(!) In the afternoon, a few of us went to the Bolivian Valley of the Moon which is basically a place full of craters that look like the moon. As you can probably imagain, I had a lot of fun pretending to be on the moon for an afternoon. I will however, have to visit the one in Chile for a comparison ... read more

Back to Cusco, my Peruvian home from home. I was here before the Lares Trek too and loved it. It's a beautiful city that was the Inca capital in the past with beautiful golden buildings which were later turned into churches and Cathedrals by the Spanish after they stole all of the gold. A stunning town square, fountains, hills, mountains, Inca ruins, great food, coffee shops, art and markets everywhere. I was so pleased to be back to my new favourite Peruvian city. Started the day with seeing more Inca ruins around Cusco such as the lookout and the cemetary. It was weird in the cemetary because they buried the bodies in the rocks and we were allowed to go inside the rocks and look and around. In the afternoon, a few of us went to ... read more

South America has yet ceased to amaze me. Every single corner I turn seems to bring with it a brand new breath taking view and I have to say that Peru is currently the winner. This morning was a 5am wake up to see if we could see any condors flying through the canyon. We were so lucky. On the way to the condor view point we saw 4 sitting atop a hill and as they began to fly, 14 more decided to join them. What a great display - fantastic to see them flying through the valleys. And given that there are only around 70-80 condors in Peru, I felt very fortunate to see 18 all at once. Then there was a trek through the canyon for an hour, taking in the scenery. After the ... read more

Get up nice and early again (don't think this travelling stuff is easy) and admittedly I wasn't really feeling too good to start with but I had a flight over the Nazca Lines to catch and I didn't want to miss it. Got to the tiny airport and was shown a video of the history of the lines. But there were so many tvs in different languages that I couldn't hear mine. Luckily I had read up on them beforehand! The lines are geolyphs (drawings in the ground) of things like birds, whales, spiders and more but they can only be seen from above. No one really knows what they were for but there are lots of theories such as they were drawn for the Gods or done by aliens etc... We got onto a tiny ... read more