We hadn't booked anywhere for our stay in Salta but the girl we met on the train from Uyuni had booked into Corre Caminos Hostel so we tagged along with her to see if they had any room for us. Luckily they did so we got into a twin room with private bathroom. It wasn't the best, the bathroom was quite dirty with a leaking toilet which ended up blocking by the end of our 2 day stay! The floors of the bedroom weren't clean and neither was the one tiny wardrobe s...

We ended up on one of the dodgiest transfers to La Paz from Copacabana in Bolivia which involved crossing a lake in the pitch black, with a fishing-type boat full of people with the captain using a single torch to light his way! While we were carted onto this boat, the bus was left to get its own way across the lake, this method we failed to see in the dark but had thoughts that it would make a good excuse for the locals to raid it, stealing our backpacks! Once w...

We arrived in Lima around 10 pm and taxi´d it to Loki Hostel in Miraflores. The taxi driver was a bit crazy and seemed to be a bit jittery as if he was on something! He also drove like a madman but we have to say that we´re yet to come across a sane taxi driver in South America! They all think they´re ex racecar drivers! Miraflores was nice with some nice shopping/bar/restaurant areas. We went to the cinema a couple of times.... Always seemed to pick the wr...

We absolutely loved Ecuador! Its such a beautiful place, especially Baños. We managed to tick off a few things on our list of things to do before we're 30 (...well, I´ve had to change mine to "before I die"!) In Quito we did a city tour which included a few churches - one of which, the Basilica, instead of having gargoyles protruding from the sides, it had animals from the Galapagos Islands and the jungle - very unusual but we like it! Another which ...

Buenos Aires was very different to Brazil and Rio de Janeiro and we loved it! We stayed in a hostel called America Del Sur for a few nights which was very clean but noisy at night and for 6 nights we stayed at the new Milhouse Hostel, which was again very nice but could be noisy until the early hours. We took a day trip one day around the city where we got to see the Government house where Evita and Juan Peron used to stand on the balcony and speak to the publi...