Sometimes, I suppose you just have one of those days. Unfortunately, Monday really was one of those days. Firstly, the bus journey to Cartagena took a good couple of hours longer than was supposed to and then the hostel we wanted was full. Neither great dramas in themselves and nothing that had not happened before, but it was to set the tone for the rest of the day, a day during which we would see both extremes of the Colombian way. After getting sorted i...

After being almost bitten to death on our jungle trip, we were grounded for a day in Iquitos until there was a boat out. So, on Wednesday we "celebrated" our 100th day on the road by catching a "speed"boat down the Amazon River to the triboarder area where Colombia, Peru and Brazil meet. Despite being pretty cool to be cruising down the Amazon, it was a slightly frustrating day to say the least as the boat kept running out of petrol (how you do that at all, let a...

Thankfully, the flight from Lima to Iquitos on Wednesday went pretty much as smoothly as possible and so we touched down in the middle of the jungle with no dramas at all. Iquitos is actually the largest city in the world without any road links - the only way to reach here is either by plane or boat, and everything has to be "imported" like this also! Whilst we have experienced a lot of different types of hassle during our trip, nothing was quite like what ...

You know what, I don`t even know where to start - I`m so far behind! After saying bye to Juliane, I ended up waiting around for ages in the bus station whilst Karl, Jules and Carlos came to pick me up. The probem was that there turned out to be more than one station for the bus company I had travelled with, and so they had been driving round them all before finally finding me! Anyway, as we set of driving back to Carlos` flat (who Jules had met in Arequipa and...

Jonny, you have gone and done it again. Being a traveller just seems to have made me even more of a big emotional girl, and I didn't think that was possible! My heart seems to be prone to certain strong feelings, lets just put it like that. Our time spent in Nazca was brief, since there is only really one reason to go there in the first place - to see the ¨Nazca Lines¨. These are a collection of hundreds of elaborate designs in the desert surface, a...