This is the second part of our Inca Trail hike, if you haven’t read the first part you can read it here. Day 3 Our guides told us that now that we had finished the hardest part of the hike we had the best day in front of us. Beautiful views and lots of ruins. […]
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Hiking The Inca Trail: What It’s Really Like (Part 1)
The Inca Trail is one of those bucket list items that a lot of people have, and now it was our turn to give it a crack. You have to book months in advance, and so seven months after booking we finally set off for a four day hike over the mountains to Machu Picchu. […]
Welcome To The Jungle – Part 2
If you haven’t read Part 1 of our trip to the Peruvian Amazon, you can read it here. Day 4 – Exploring Deep In The Jungle Cocha Salvador Because the rivers in the Amazon Rainforest change course regularly, they can leave behind big oxbow lakes like Cocha Salvador. So you get animals that prefer the […]
Welcome To The Jungle – Part 1
Not long after our arrival in Cusco for Inti Raymi (Festival of the Sun) we set off east, down from the Andes and into the lowland jungle of Peru. We were headed for the Manu National Park. A remote part of the Amazon Rainforest which has the highest biodiversity in the world. It’s so remote […]
Adventures in Torotoro
Torotoro is a bit of an out-of-the-way destination. We hadn’t originally planned on going there, but since we couldn’t do the salt flats tour we decided to check it out. To get there you need to take an overnight bus to Cochabamba. (Pretty much everyone in Bolivia reckons this place is a hole). Then get […]
