Greetings to you dear readers of this 'ere blog. Since we last met we've covered over 1000km, visited three cities and have reached our last port of call in Peru. We left Puno and lake Titicaca behind as we boarded the first of our trips on the brilliant Cruz del Sur. This is a monster of a bus, and by far the best we've been on. With huge spacious seats that almost go flat you could be in business class on a plane. (Central and South America are the lands of...

Greetings to you dear readers of this 'ere blog. Since we last met we've covered over 1000km, visited three cities and have reached our last port of call in Peru. We left Puno and lake Titicaca behind as we boarded the first of our trips on the brilliant Cruz del Sur. This is a monster of a bus, and by far the best we've been on. With huge spacious seats that almost go flat you could be in business class on a plane. (Central and South America are the lands of...

Return to Peru With a few minutes spare before jumping on another bus, I thought I´d write a quick blog update to explain some of the pics I uploaded earlier. It´s awesome being back in Peru. It has reminded me so much of the trek to Machu Picchu six years ago. The scenery is breathtaking (and so is the altitude). Having learned from experience, we totally chilled out in Cusco and drank lots of coca tea. Our time in Peru is short so we´ve organised a whistl...

"Chicken" Tonight?Following the results of the poll yesterday we took a trip back to the restuarant that served "chicken". Another real backpacker experience. In fact T´s definition of backpacker has morphed somewhat since leaving the UK. I think the Rio Experience (vomit smelling pillows and shrieking young people having fun) has scarred her. Anyway it met with her approval that we were in a restuarant where the waiter recommended a Malbec...

Breathless in Cuzco Righto folks, time for another Dave entry. Ecuador is behind us, in fact now the majority of the trip is behind us and today, after we booked our monster whistle stop tour of southern Peru, we had a chance to reflect that this trip will be the last of the "big ones". We only have a couple of days in Chile, then about five in New Zealand before landing in Sydney. I´ve been having a hard time on some days with the constant change, a...