Colombia. A country which is the same size as Spain, France and Portugal combined (Lonely Planet, 2010). Something which I am only too aware off after travelling the length of it. So, at 10.30pm I set-off to start travelling on my own. Things started off well as the taxi driver actually knew of my destination and I didn't have to spend 5 minutes showing him a map, for him to then still not actually have any better idea. However, things quickly went dow...

There´s many things one gets used to while travelling - nothing ever being on time, toilets rarely ever having seats and really long bus rides. One thing I have not been able to get used to, however, is leaving people who have just come my new best friends; it happened on the Colca Cayon trek, the Lares Trek, in Cusco and now in Mancora. Mancora! Our long awaited paradise. After the mammoth bus journeys Jordan and I had been enduring, we felt like we des...

Photos! They now go up to just as we get into Machu Picchu. Here´s the link: https://picasaweb.google.com/106770969473102293815/August32011?authuser=0&feat=directlink

Hello again, We really need to catch-up with this as my memories are fast turning into the ash from a fire (we watched a brilliant (and emotional) french film today and there was an awesome quote which went something like that...). Anywhooooo, while Jordan is manicly trying to make grounds on his own personal blog, I thought I would try to get stuck into this. So, after scarying ourselves by biking down Death Road, our item was to visit the world´s larges...

OK so in a TV style 'previously on...', we left you with us having just completed our visit to Machu Picchu and were about to embark to our second country, Bolivia. Before we did set off for Bolivia, we had a couple of days to kill in Cusco, and these turned out to be two of the luckiest I've personally experienced. The first day we used as a chore day and planned to take care of all the little bits which we needed to sort out; the first being to book our b...