Old penis.* An old, abandoned settlement has captured my imagination and easily stolen the spot for my favourite place in Latin America. There are two ways of arriving at this beautiful place: you can take the easy option and get a train to Aguas Calientes town and then a bus up the hill to it […]
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Four Days Hiking The Inca Trail
The last four days have been a struggle but a struggle well worth the pain. We started our hiking preparations in Cusco at the G Adventures HQ. We were introduced to our main guide, Kantu, and given a run down of the four days including how far we walk each day and what altitudes we […]
Cusco: The World’s Belly Button
We actually made two trips to Cusco (deliberately, unlike Salta) and spent a total of four nights in Cusco Plaza Hotel 2: two nights before the Inca Trail and two nights after. Cusco is one of the larger cities in Peru with 500,000 residents in the city and around 1,000,000 residents in the region. Cusco […]
Lake Titicaca Cultural Immersion
These last few days have been particularly special. I have seen many things as a tourist but have rarely had the opportunity to go deeper than the exterior. We travelled from La Paz, Bolivia to Puno, Peru relatively easily. I woke up again with more altitude sickness so spent most of the bus journey with […]
La Paz, The Capital City You Have To See To Believe.
I feel like this is going to be a hard post to write. Normally I try to give details about what a city is like but somehow, La Paz is almost like an indescribable city. I could write as many adjectives as a thesaurus can provide me or I could add as many pictures as […]
Potosí and Sucre
Our stay in Potosí was short and sweet as we’d had to change our itinerary after the drama in Salta but I think the more I see of Bolivia, the more I love it! Whenever I haven’t heard of a place, I assume it’s a small little town. Potosí has proved me very wrong! Potosí […]
Uyuni: The Most Beautiful Place on Earth
I mentioned in my last post that Cafeyate was like geographical porn but as we’ve moved up through Uyuni and the Andes and into Bolivia, it has just got better and better! Warning: there are a LOT of pictures in this post! After the disaster of the landslide, we had to change our route and […]
The Unplanned Return to Salta…
For those of you who know me well, you’ll know that I don’t enjoy long bus journeys etc so I wasn’t particularly looking forward to the 12 hour bus ride to Chile but this 12 hour journey turned into 30 hours of drama and an experience I’ll never forget. We left our hotel in Salta […]
Salta City
After Buenos Aires, we flew to Salta for a few days. It feels like it’s been quite a short visit but we’ve definitely taken a big step away from the European influenced part of Argentina. We arrived early afternoon and settled into our hotel. It was a cute, family owned hotel with a small pool […]
¡Buenos Días Buenos Aires!
Stop number 1 of our around the world adventure has not disappointed. At first, Buenos Aires felt to me like it could be any other Spanish city but as time went on, we got a bit deeper in and saw the true side to South America’s cultural capital. Our flight here was a bit mental. […]