It´s been a very unique Christmas. Not better than being back in Blighty but certainly different. San Pedro was our first stop after crossing the border from Bolivia and it was a delight. The first thing that struck me about Chile was that there was fat people in the streets again. This is not surprising in retrospect as Chile does have a higher standard of living, it has a more developed commercial farming sector and there is more and better food to buy in the ...

Greetings from Santiago!! We`ve been in Chile for the last few days now, travelling from San Pedro de Atacama in the north at the end of our Salar de Uyuni trip to Valaparaiso on the coast near Santiago, and now here, just in time for our trip south, which starts tomorrow. So far Chile is hurting the wallet compared to the cost of living in Bolivia (and we still can´t believe we missed out on all the political unrest by a matter of days, gutted) but all thr...

Bolivia, I love you! From when we arrived to when we crossed into Chile you have constantly surprised me. La Paz was fantastic. We arrived at the highest capital city in the world by bus on a motorway which skirted the top of the mountain bowl that contains the city giving us a great first view of our playground for the next week. Our first night there we went to see La Paz FC play Blooming in the Hexagon Final of their season. La Paz came from behind to win 2-1 ...

Hello from Bolivia, where we´ve had a brilliant few days. First, to Copacabana on Lake Titicaca from Cusco, where we spent a couple of days on the Isla de Sol - which the Incas believed to be the cradle of civilization - a really beautiful place and hard to believe that it´s a lake and not the sea gfrom the expanse of water out in front of you. Then to La Paz, where the highlight was biking down the world´s most dangerous road and going from moun...

So we did it! After 45km of trekking, thousands of metres of climbing and descent, rain, storms, cloud and sunshine, sore legs and wobbly knees, we made it to Machu Picchu (first) yesterday morning at 6.30am...to find it completely shrouded in cloud. Well it is the rainy season after all but it was quite the anticlimax, although the trek itself was fantastic - very, very hard work at times but a brilliant experience. You can see from the photos that the main at...