After getting down from Huayna Potosi and back to La Paz Wednesday lunchtime, I spent the afternoon re-organising my back pack which was a very slow job, mostly because my brain was broken after the hike. I grabbed some dinner in the hostel and jumped on an 8pm bus bound for Uyuni which arrived shortly…
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La Paz – Death Road & Huayna PotosiÂ
I arrived to La Paz by bus from Cusco on Sunday at lunchtime and spent the afternoon organising activities for the next few days and catching up with Peter and his new travel buddy (my replacement) Paul who I’d bumped into randomly in the Wild Rover reception. They were on a night bus out of…
Salkantay Trek to Machu Pichu – Flying Solo
How to fit five days worth of walking and sight seeing into three days: 1) Go it alone, 2) Don’t take breaks, 3) Try to keep up with the locals on the uphills, 4) Pack more chocolate than you think you need – it still won’t be enough. The famous Inca Trail to Machu Pichu…
Santa Cruz Trek, Huaraz, Peru
I’ve just spent four days and three nights in the Cordillera Blanca, a mountain range in Northern Peru. Eadaoin and I arrived to Huaraz by bus early last Thursday morning and after grabbing a few hours sleep on the hostel couches we headed out for breakfast and to plan our next movements. We intended to…
Mancora – Huanchaco – Casa Fresh
After leaving the Galapagos by plane last Friday we caught a night bus out of Guayaquil to cross the border into Peru. At 12.40am we were woken up at immigration and had to stand in a two hour queue to get our passports stamped (😴) before continuing our bus journey to Mancora. We were dropped…
Galapagos
I’ve spent the last five days just wandering around staring at things with my mouth wide open. We arrived by plane on Sunday evening and after a bus-boat-bus journey we got to the main town of Santa Cruz. After finding a cheap place to stay and grabbing some dinner we went to a tour agency…
Quito
Quito, Ecuador is the higest official capital city in the world at 2,850m. The flight in from Colombia brought us over some awesome mountains and we landed on a runway enclosed by ravines. We arrived on Saturday evening and took a quick stroll around the historical centre. There are lots of gorgeous buildings but not…
Colombian Coast – Santa Marta, Taganga, Tayrona, Cartagena
On Monday we flew from Medellin to Santa Marta and grabbed a cab to our hostel, Villana which turned out to be one of the nicest hostels I’ve stayed in. Beautiful, clean, sturdy bunkbeds in the dorms, air con, bean bags and a small pool beside the bar. We headed straight out for dinner at…
Medellin
I’ve just spent five nights at the Black Sheep Hostel in Medellin which has been great. We arrived late last Wednesday night and on Thursday morning Harry, my neighbour from home, arrived having already spent five weeks in Colombia. Thursday was definitely a food day. After a very delicious breakfast in Al Alma beside our…
Bogotá
24 hours in any city isn’t enough to do it justice but having heard amazing things about other areas of Colombia that’s all we could justify dedicating to Bogotá. Laura and Barry, an Irish couple we met in Brazil both teach there and were kind enough to let us stay with them. They live in…
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