Lima, Peru

May 2, 2012

Three months has passed since we left home. This was roughly the amount of time we had first thought we would spend in South America. With our round the world tickets flying us about on our adventure far and wide, we thought spending three months in a continent would give us the right amount of time. With the flexibility of our tickets, we can travel on our path around the world at our own pace, just as long as we make the flight home before January 16th 201...

Cuzco, Peru

Apr 24, 2012

It was only a matter of time until we noticed the little tin robotic style motorized taxi scooters zipping people around town. They almost didn't look real and resembled a children's toy car that had been blown up in scale. We had only just crossed the border into Peru and already things were looking different… In the comfort of our trusty bus, we arrived in Cuzco about ten hours after leaving the little town of Copacabana behind us. From Argentina to B...

Machu Picchu, Peru

Apr 13, 2012

Last night we returned from a five day trek along the Salkantay trail to Machu Picchu and today I am busting to write down this amazing experience. Machu Picchu was on the list of places to explore here in Peru along with many other travellers. It may be very popular on the gringo trail, yet perhaps there is just a very good reason for that. Machu Picchu is place that can be described with thousands of words, yet the trek there was just as, if not more amazi...

Estancia Challa, Bolivia

Apr 12, 2012

Here we are in the middle of the continent with no ocean in sight, no lakes, rivers or any sight of running water. This is all soon to change when we reach what is believed to be the highest navigable lake in the world. The largest lake in South America located on the border of Peru and Bolivia. This mass of water is so big that you can easily distinguish the splash of blue on the world map. We arrive in the small lake side town of Copacabana on another lon...

La Paz, Bolivia

Apr 4, 2012

My first experience of La Paz was waking up in the morning still on a bus that we had caught overnight from Uyuni. We were so tired after an 800km journey over three days in the desert that catching the connecting overnight bus was not so bad after all. We slept most of the way and woke up in our destination feeling surprisingly awake. Well we were almost at our destination… Our bus had made it through to the outskirts of the city well on time, but a prot...