Chau Cusco

Time to leave Cusco.  Got my ticket and just killing time until 9 bus leaving at 10.    Samana santa and road blocks in Bolivia, I´ve certainly picked the worse time to travel. All good fun.

Chau amigos

After travelling alone for some time it was nice to meet up with some mates in Cusco.  Although after travelling alone and taking it easy on the drink it was a bit difficult keeping up with the pace. Got up at 9 to see my mates off on their next leg of their trip.   We [...]

Rafting grade 3-4

I´ve never been rafting before, but have been curious what it would be like.  Lucy had been talking about it and we finally signed up for it.  The day after the motorbike tour. The river had grade 3 and a bit of grade 4.  I really didn´t know what to expect, but it wasn´t as [...]

Hot metal and adrenaline

So many times when travelling in Latin America things are not as advertised. So when Craig and I booked ourselves on a Xtreme tour I was a bit suspicious it would not be as advertised. I shouldn´t have worried! My mate has 15 years plus experience on motorbikes and currently rides a heavy powerful bike [...]

Cusco

Things are more expensive than I remember.  There are now only 4.5 soles to the pound and I´m sure before there were 9 to the pound.  Having said that I did find somewhere to stay for 20 soles.  I soon realised that I wasn´t over my sickness and I needed a private bathroom.  I saw [...]

Copacabana a Cusco

I wasn´t in the mood for messing around with getting to Cusco independent so I went to a travel agency to get a tour to Cusco.  The 90bs seemed like a good deal and talking to others it was a good deal.  However, I was just given one ticket form the agency, I thought that [...]

Puno – Perú

From this small town you can vistit the Uros, the floating islands of lake titicaca. My impression of these islands were, of, what have turists done to this place. As always the locals were selling handy crafts, but they were very expensive in relative terms. A local boy was singing for us apparently in lots [...]

San Pedro

We´re in a hotel in San Jose, Costa Rica, and we`re watching the new version of the Omen. There´s a big black pit bull dog, Lisa expreses her fear of dogs. That´s not news to me. Me: I saw a Taco Bell today. Lisa: I used to eat at Taco Bell all the time when [...]

El Misti – Chachani – Soroche

El Misti is the Volcano that overlooks the town of Arequipa, it´s 5800 and some meters. I had my reservation to do it with a local agency. I went for my briefing but there was a problem. The other people in the group had pulled out and there was only me ie there was no [...]

Un abrigo encontrado

After getting back from the Colca Canyon we went down to the bus station to get my jacket. It was there. Back from its trip to Lima. Even my hat was in the pocket. The only thing is they stapled a label onto it. So now my waterproof jacket is going to leak!