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 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 […]
Lake Titicaca: The Spiritual Centre of the Andes
Heading north from our adventures in La Paz we came to Lake Titicaca. This was and still is an important spiritual centre for people from the Andes. It’s where the sun and moon came from in the Andean creation legend, and where the spirits of the dead go. Tiwanaku Tiwanaku has some of the earliest […]
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 […]
