Hey all, here's the rest of Chile..... Spent a really nice evening going for a horse ride from San Pedro. We waited for the heat of the day to pass a little before setting off and headed out into the Atacama desert. We passed pre-Inca ruins built onto a hillside and a canyon carved out of the sand by the very occasional rain storm. Then we headed up into the sand dunes and watched the sun set over the distant mountains - not bad. Sarah was panicking because...

Hey everyone, its been a while since we have had a chance to write.... been busy crossing the Atacama desert (the dryest place on the earth apparently!). Anyway, we survived so ill fill you in on the days since we last wrote our journal...After our trip to the jungle we travelled to Puno on the shores of Lake Titicaca.  It was hard to believe that the lake was a lake at all since, living up to its name as the highest navigable lake in the world, it just seem...

Hey everyone, its been a while since we have had a chance to write.... been busy crossing the Atacama desert (the dryest place on the earth apparently!). Anyway, we survived so ill fill you in on the days since we last wrote our journal...After our trip to the jungle we travelled to Puno on the shores of Lake Titicaca.  It was hard to believe that the lake was a lake at all since it just seemed to go on forever. We travelled out onto the lake, the highest na...

After our 26 hour flight from Manchester, via Heathrow and Miami we arrived in Lima, very thankful to find our bags had also made it.24 hours in Lima were quite enough for us - it really isn´t the prettiest place to visit. Lima gets less than 7mm of rain in a year and everything is just grey and dusty- I don´t think it ever gets the chance to be cleaned. The central square is quite pretty, however it soon turns into little more than a shanty town. Ano...