Everytime I look at a map of our travels I feel amazed and a bit smug. We are currently in Cusco in Peru having left Quito by bus on the 23rd of November. We´ve covered a lot of miles. Our final day in Ecuador was spent climbing up to the snow line of the mighty Cotopaxi volcano. The snow line lies at 16000ft, about the height of Mt Blanc in Europe, and we hauled ourselves all the way to that mark. To go further we would require special training on the g...

Well after four very hard days on the beach in Mancora, northern Peru, we made it to Quito. The old town here is fantastic - it´s a UNESCO World Heritage site and the buildings are so well preserved, but still with lots of life to the town. Our hostel has a roof terrace with amazing views across the city and everywhere you turn is a different vista of hills, mountains and volcanoes. We don´t have much time to visit the whole country, but yesterday was ...

Hi there - Laura here. We`re at Lima airport at the moment Having flown in from Iquitos early this morning, we arrived in the capital, shivered, put our fleeces on, took one look at the fog and decided to head north for some more sun and beach time on our way to Ecuador. Iquitos was fantastic. It`s the largest city in the world not reachable by road. As a result cars are a rarity and the streets are filled with three wheeled mototaxis, like Indian tuc tucs, zoomi...

After yesterdays marathon blog I am still not up to date with our travels. I left it as were just heading off to the Uacari Lodge in the Miramaua reserve of the flooded forest. The lodge is a cluster of several floating buildings in the crook of a tributary to the River Amazon. Its a Lodge that is majorativley staffed and run by the local community for the benefit of themselves and the maintenance of the forest. It is ecotourism at its best and has won a number...

Its been a while since we updated this site. This is being written in Leticia in Colombia as it is the first chance we have had to use computers since leaving Manaus. When we last blogged we were in Manaus having bought our ticket to Tefe on the slow boat up the Amazon. Well, the chap who sorted out our tickets for has was as good as his word (though we ended up sailing on a boat called something entirely different to that which our tickets said, but more of that...