Geo: -13.52, -71.99Today we met for breakfast in the reception at 8.30 in time for a 9am departure. With Pete on the mend, Sam would join Nat, Will and I for a walking tour of several different Inca ruins around Cusco. The four of us piled into a taxi to head for our first stop, Tambomachay. The main attraction here was the Temple of the Water, which has flowed the same as it does now since constructed by the Inca hundreds of years ago. This site also contained the remains of an old watch tower. From the top you could see our next destination, the Puka Pukara ruins, or Red Fort.Puka Pukara used to serve as a resting point, place of refuge, shelter and lookout for those traveling through the area back in Inca times. The ... read more

Geo: -13.2646, -72.2658I woke, feeling somewhat rejuvenated, ready for breakfast. The storm had passed. I reached for my phone, to check the time. It was 1.30am. My head throbbed and brain didn't know what was going on. Mild altitude issues? Mini jetlag? Lack of sleep? Not sure. Eventually I drifted off to sleep again, despite loud music and ruckus noise from outside. When I woke again at 7.30, I felt a lot better. We packed half our things into smaller bags, for a night away from Cusco in the Sacred Valley. The rest of our things we would leave behind here at the hotel, where we would return the day after tomorrow.We all gathered in the lobby for breakfast around 8.30-9. Toast, eggs, fruit and my favorite, mini banana pancakes. We all piled onto a minibus ... read more

Geo: -12.0931, -77.0465Time for the second last chapter of our honeymoon. Time to fly to Peru to join an intrepid tour and see Machu Picchu. We had a bit of a sleep-in in Valparaiso this morning, with checkout not until noon. We had a Mozio transfer booked for 3pm from Ibis Hotel, Valparaiso to Santiago airport. A 1.5 hour drive would leave us plenty of time to catch our 7.20pm flight to Lima.To pass the time between noon and 3pm, we left our luggage at Ibis hotel for safekeeping and set off up the hill to Tripadvisors number 1 restaurant in the city for lunch, Cafe del Pintor. It opened at one so the timing was perfect. We took the 3 course set menu. The food and service was very good without being mind blowing. We ... read more

Geo: -41.4752, -72.9521We awoke to another beautiful sunny day, anchored in the bay near Puerto Montt. Todays adventure would take us between two imposing volcanoes; Calbuco and Osorno. The former, visible from the bay recently erupted just last year in late 2015. Our guide advised us there are still concerns of this repeating - whilst Calbuco is usually coated with snow, its currently dry as a bone its wide flat summit both rocky and dusty, possibly due to increased heat levels.Osorno was a different spectacle; a wider volcano with a sharper point for a summit and a little taller. The top third of the mountain was dusted in snow, glistening in the brilliant sunshine. Our route took us via Puerto Varas, a German settled town offering notably different architecture to the rest of Chile. This modern ... read more

Geo: -53.1479, -70.9303Welcome to Chile! Despite the forecast of another freezing day, we were treated to blue skies and a relatively temperate max temperature of 10C. The currency here is the Chilean Peso (CHP) and 1AUD = about 550CHP. So everything seems expensive with high numerical costs. We arrived just offshore from Punta Arenas today around 9am. Being a small port, we again had to be tendered in via lifeboats. This certainly worked to our favor today as we were able to see dolphins splashing all around us, particularly enjoying playing in the waves behind our boat.Punta Arenas is the southern most city on the South American continent mainland, so they have a healthy debate and rivalry over which city is indeed the "end of the world". For me, Ushuaia clearly should get that title. Mainland ... read more