After 20 hour bus ride we arrived in wet and cold Buenos Aires.

We went to visit the Quilmes ruins which were almost completely deserted which Nicole took full advantage off to express herself.Afterwards we di...

Returning the car we almost couldn't pay them because they had put a block on my credit card which they wouldn't lift until I had paid and I could ...

We were quite lucky because today seems to be one of their biggest festivals and there are "Gauchos" (cowboys I think) everywhere. After getting ...

We drove through one of the Quebrada valleys (the one between Salta and Cafayate) and it was spectacular.We stayed in Hostal Central for only 30 ...

The bus did finally leave this morning at 7am.The drive from San Pedro de Atacama to Salta is beautiful over snowy mountain passes and through dram...

French couple were very cranky today because they couldn't sleep last night as the only source of warmth was the oven outside their window and so e...

We arrived in Uyuni at around 7am after a 12 hour bus ride. What they don't tell you before is that the last 6 hours are on a dust road with washbo...

We went shopping on the Mercado Negro to replace the things that got stolen - pocket knife, phone charger and head lamp. It came to about 60 Bolivi...

I mountain biked down the world's most dangerous road with Gravity Assisted Mountain Biking.It was great!

We arrived in La Paz late in evening.Very friendly Policeman who ordered us taxi and took down details of the driver.Driver told us about long queu...

nice hike in morningback in rush to catch bus to La PazOdd and amusing very crossing during bus ride.

We left Cuzco at 10pm on an overnight bus to Coppacobana. This wasn't to be our best trip and we got ripped off in so many ways.First we bought the...

Absolutely stunning setting in Lake Ticicaca.

Went there early in the morning...

We knew this was going to be a long one. 20 hours or more on a bus is never the kind of thing you sign up for just for the fun of it. The route is ...

embassy linebus to cuzco

We stayed in a hostal close to the Bus terminal since we had to catch a bus at 7am. Got up at 6am, onto the bus and arrived in Piura at aro...

It's my birthday! Boy was I surprised when all of Cuenca filled the streets en masse with fireworks and sweet stalls everywhere. All this for me! W...

Did I say 4am yesterday? Well, we moved that to 5am and after waiting for a bus for a while probably left at around 6am or so. While we were wait...

We finally wanted to leave today but fate decided otherwise. After packing all our bags and carrying them down to the lobby, we left them in the st...

We finally were well enough again to do some of the amazing activities that can be done in Baños and surroundings. For only 5 USD each we rented m...

We went on a day trip to Amabot, not for the best of reasons I might add. I had to get an x-ray of my teeth and Nicole was looking for a Neckbrace....

Great food and best book exchange I've found in 7 months in Latinamerica! Free movie screenings every day at 16h30.

We're paying $12 for a double room with private bathroom and satellite TV. Everything is super clean and the owner is super friendly. Great place! ...

After initially almost not going to go to Baños at all, we really like this place so far and might stay here for a while. We're staying in a great...

Our original plan was to go to Cuenca but when we found out that it was an 8 hour or more busride we changed our minds and decided to go to Baños ...

Nicole wanted to stay at the hotel so I went to Quilotoa Crater by myself. I thought I got up quite early but after I showered and had breakfast it...

Jose from Llumu Lama drove us to Sigchos and from there we caught a bus back to Latacunga.

We took bus from Quito to Latacunga, where we changed to a bus to Sigchos. We actually wanted to go to Isinlivi but there is only one bus a day at ...

The people who had sold us the bus ticket to Sigchos had promised us that there would be a bus at 18h00 from Sigchos to Isinlivi. However when we g...

So we eventually did make it to Isinlivi and our driver dropped us off at the Llullu Llama Hostel. The hostel is great and very environmentally awa...

Apparently this is the largest Artisans and Crafts market in South America.It's a nice market and Nicole ended up buying a pink handbag. However I'...

After almost staying in Otavalo another day because of the peaceful atmosphere, we came to our senses and packed our bags to move on because we rea...

The bus ride had been ok and at about 2 hours quite passable although after the overnight ride just hours before I was glad to get off the bus. As ...

We first thought we might stay a day here before moving on but we wanted to go to the Saturday market in Otavalo next and read that the hostels can...

We got to Puerto Lopez early in the afternoon. Our bus from Montanita dropped us off right next to the bus to Quito so we bought the ticket for t...

After having spent almost a week in Montanita when we'd only planned 2 days there it eventually really became time to move on as we're fast runni...

The last bus ride didn't feel very long (probably an hour or so) and we got to Monanita before lunch time. Not sure what hostal to go to we just wa...

On the way to Guayaquil we had to cross the border into Ecuador. I'm not sure at what time we got there but I had already been asleep and was enj...

After two hours and little bit more sleep we got to Santa Elena. We were just getting off our bus as another bus came past, screeched to a st...

I really didn't find Mancora that exciting and was happy to leave after one day. We thought we'd spoil ourselves a bit by taking a "Cama" overnight...

The bus from Lima dropped us here in the morning (btw we had Presidential Service which although it was only semi-cama, had been great with sna...

Surfer town on the north coast of Peru. Ok, but not as nice as Montañita in Ecuador.On the way to Mancora, the bus had taken us through some ver...

Great city. Probably my favourite city so far in Latin America.

We got back from the jungle late last night and after running for the showers which we'd been dreaming off for a while we headed out and treated ou...

By Saturday I had finally recovered enough so that we could book our jungle tour and on Sunday we headed into the jungle. First two hours by taxi t...

We took the speed boat from Tabatinga/Leticia/Santa Rosa to Iquitos because we really didn't feel like another three or four days on a boat.Saturda...

Since we're at the 3 border point we couldn't resist going into Colombia for some coffee and pastries, especially after Nicole's rude expulsion the...

We finally arrived in Tabatinga after 6 days on the boat (from Saturday to Friday). The boat trip was quite an experience. It actually wasn't as ba...

Ok, it seems that we are really going to leave today. We've just come back from hanging up our hammocks on the boat called the Itapuranga III. Here...

Today we went to the Bosques da Ciencia (The Forrest of Science), a natural park in Manaus. It was pretty cool and we saw some caimans (alligators)...

Our bus was a bit delayed and at some point in the early morning became really full with people standing everywhere in the isles. This was only for...

Our departure from Santa Elena was delayed by a couple of days because I came down with the worst case of diarrhoea I've ever had and then I also t...

We arrived in Santa Elena early in the morning after another overnight bus ride which is usually great for saving on accomodation while getting s...

We went to the Iesus Soto Museum. He is the inventor of Cinetisism (sp?) and the museum was quite fascinating. The upstairs classics section is the...

After a 22 hour bus trip we eventually arrived in Ciudad Bolivar.We stayed at Posada Don Carlos which is very reasonably priced and is quite beauti...

In San Cristobal I found myself at another big terminal but I quickly located a bus to Merida at 4pm and thus had 1 1/2 hours to spare. I used the ...

Crossing the border actually turned out to be surprisingly easy. From the bus stop in Cucuta I caught a local bus for 3000 Venezuelan Bolivaris to ...

Even though I had been assured that there were hourly buses from 5am operated by the same company as the nice bus the day before, when I turned up ...

Back at the Bus Terminal in San Gil I then looked around for a bus towards the border and to my horror found that the only option available was...

The chica from the hostel was kind enough to call the bus company to enquire at what time buses left for Cucuta or Pamplona and it turned out that ...

I left Bogota, catching for the first time one of the local (non Transmilenio) buses to the Terminal de Transportes which actually turned out to be...

Another early morning, rising at 5:30am to catch a taxi to the airport at 6am and then my flight to San Jose at 8:20am. From San Jose I had a conne...

I shared a taxi to the City Center with Damion, a frenchman, I met at the Viazul bus station. We ended up staying in the same Casa Particular and w...

I visited the 26 Julio Museum which is actually housed in the Cuartel Moncada that Fidel Castro and the other members of the Centenario movement at...

I visited the Jose Marti Memorial at the Santiago de Cuba cementery which has a changing of the guard every 30 minutes to the most ominous sounding...

At 14h00 I was back on the bus and on my way to Santiago. I wasn't sure what I was going to do there at 1am and whether the bus station would be ...

I was staying in an illegal casa in Varadero which made me uncomfortable. Also, Varadero is very touristy, with no Casa Particulares and only big t...

Nicole had to get an early morning taxi to the Airport at 6am to catch her flight to Bogota, Colombia. The taxi dropped me off at the bus station o...

Bus to Habana from Vinales. Once in Havana we had a nice amble around Habana Vieja with Nicole showing me around.

Rafael, our very friendly and helpful casa owner had organised a taxi to Vinales for us with Cubataxi. In the best case you find 4 people in which ...

We had somehow been misinformed the night before and the tourist bus to Trinidad left at 5:30am not 6:30am. We managed to get ourselves onto a form...

Flight to Havana, then shared taxi with two israelis to the bus station, 4 or 5 hour wait there for my bus to Sancti Spiritus.

Four or five hour bus ride to Sancti Spiritus where I arrived at 1am and met Nicole. Then another short night until 5:30am as we wanted to catch th...

Left at 11am to arrive in San Jose at 2am and catch a plane at 8am.

Our bus driver was speeding like crazy so this was the first bus ride in ages where I didn't sleep well at all. We arrived in Panama City an hour e...

The water taxi charged us $10 each for the return trip but it was well worth it. There was also a $2 entrance fee at the park on the island but abo...

A shuttle and a water taxi later I was in Bocas del Toro. So far so good, looks like a chilled out place. I realised I actually have a day more t...

My plan had originally been to take the 6:30am bus but I was undecided as to whether I wanted to watch some more of Cliff's videos. In the end I th...

I wasn't up for any surfing so I decided to just chill out and read. Walking around I noticed some posters about how 911 was an inside job, a so ca...

My plan was to get the 10:30am bus to Puerto Viejo. Got up at 8:30am and thought that would leave me in pretty good shape. However I got a bit dist...

After having been told about by Palmares by almost every Tico I've met I decided to delay my trip to Puerto Viejo by another day and check it out. ...

I decided to stay at JC&Friends again because it's close to all the bus terminals which meant I'd have to spend less on taxi fares, a saving of...

I went to the bus stop at 13h50 to catch the 2pm bus but it didn't arrive until 2:30pm. I got to Santa Cruz at around 16h15, just in time to catch ...

I did the Giant Leatherback Turtle tour in Tamarindo and it was great. You get to walk right up to the back of the turtle and watch it make a whole...

Frikkin Manta Ray stings me in the foot in knee deep water. Nothing too serious but it was pretty painful. Painkillers and by evening it was fine a...

I'm leaving now to catch the bus to Playa Tamarindo where I should arrive this evening.

I stayed in San Jose for the night and met up with Hideo for supper.

Manrique picked us up at the hotel in the morning and took us to his house where his mom made us a traditional Costa Rican breakfast with "Gallo Pi...

This morning we got up early because we had booked the morning Cloud Forrest tour the day before and had to be at the bus stop at 6:30am. The cloud...

We decided to sleep in a bit later as it didn't seem likely that the storm would die down any time soon. So by lunch time we walked into town to as...

We caught the 8am bus to Paquera. (I'm experimenting with the blog today since I want to see if splitting the entries up will make the map more a...

From Paquera to Puntarenas by ferry.

Then from Puntarenas we took another bus to Monteverde. We actually had some pretty nice food at the bus station in Puntarenas but I have no idea w...

Street party right in front of our hotel room.

After some great shopping in San Jose which is by far the most cosmopolitan city I've been in in quite a while, we caught the last bus to Montezuma...

We rose at 2:15 am to get on the bus which left right from our hotel at 2:45am. Luckily this was a pretty nice bus, as nice as any of the buses...

We got up at 2:30 am to wait outside the gate for a 3am shuttle that might possibly exist according to one source although most people told us the ...

Amazing day! 1. Cave tour by candle light 2. Bridge jump 3. Local chocolate 4. Climb to view point 5. Swimming in pools 6. Trip to where rive...

After hearing the night before that some fellow travellers (Richard, Jenny and John) were going to Lanquin the next morning, we decided to join the...

Wonderful Christmas Day.

In the afternoon we did a half day tour to Volcana Pacaya which was absolutely amazing. After a one hour bus trip and another 1 1/2 hour hike up th...

Caught the shuttle to Antigua. Met some interesting Poles on the shuttle. Then checked into Black Cat hostel. Met room mates Serena, Graham, Toby a...

I moved to San Marcos La Laguna because they have a meditation center here where I wanted to go and participate in their meditation classes and spe...

We finally saw the lake today and it really is quite magnificient with the mountains and three volcanoes around it. I was going to go to San Marc...

We got up at 5am to get to the bus station in Rio Dulce by 5:45am and catch the bus to Guatemala City. It was a first class bus and it wasn't actua...

The hotel dropped us off at the bridge from where we caught a local bus to the Finca El Paraiso waterfalls. The waterfalls are absolutely amazing...

After hanging around the internet for the better part of the morning we caught a "lancha" to Rio Dulce in the early afternoon. I thought the scener...

Stayed at the Hotel Viajero. Completely forgot that Hostel Inguana might be here. Tomorrow we'll either stay a night at Finca Tatin in the jungle...

We left Utila on the 6:20 am ferry. Then Hedman Atlas first class bus to San Pedro Sula. From there a comfortable minibus (we asked for Citul but t...

We finished the theoretical material this morning and wrote our exam. Now we're busy on a break and this afternoon we'll do another confined water ...

We do more theory and did our first exercises and dive with scuba equipment in confined water on the beach.

We start the "Open Water Diver" Scuba diving course by watching some videos in the afternoon.

In the morning we took a nice and uneventful ferry ride to Utila. We were quickly ushered to the Mango Inn where we spent the first night for USD 3...

Bus ride to La Ceiba.Views of Honduras which is definitely the poorest place we've been in so far. The hotels in La Ceiba initially didn't have...

We awoke at 3am to a loud sound almost like a compressor which turned out to be unbelievably hard rain and wind. After falling asleep again we were...

From Belize City we caught the bus to Independence (via Belmopan and Dangriga). We met some really fascinating characters on the bus (fill in - HIV...

We caught the 6am bus Playa del Carmen to Chetumal (after finding out at 5:30am that it left from another terminal 10 blocks away and having to wal...

Not much happening today. Doing laundry and planning our crossing to the Bay Islands, Honduras, which looks like it will be a little adventure.Ba...

We got up relatively early, say 9am or so, and after breakfast and with the bicycles rented we were all set, Roberts, Karlis, Nicole and I were goi...

Although now more than 24hours afterwards I was still not feeling up for any exploring so instead we opted to just go to the beach and chill ther...

After a big night we managed to leave the hostel at "the crack of dusk" and got to Tulum in the dark.

We tried to get to the Chichen Itza ruins by opening time (8am) tobeat the tourists but breakfast and packing took a little longer so wemade it the...

Our Lonely Planet guide suggested that Merida was a good place to buy quality "hamacas" (hammocks) so after informing ourselves about what to l...

As I said, our plan is to move on as quickly as possible. I still want to do a quick tour of the Archeological museum here which is suppose...

We arrived in Campeche just after lunch and caught a taxi into town. The bus ride was actually one of the most pleasant so far as Palenque is on th...

It was finally time to move on from San Cristobal de las Casas which we liked very much. We decided to go with a tour to Palenque instead of taki...

We did a day trip from San Cristobal to this canyon which I thought was really awesome. I whole heartedly recommend this to anyone visiting Chiapas...

After the horseback adventure we had in Lesotho in 2005, I was initially hesitant to get on another horse but then decided that it had actually bee...

From Cuajimoloyas we had to catch the bus back to Oaxaca which turned out to be the most terrifying bus ride I have been on to date - a well worn c...

We're heading to the Sierra Norte mountains today for two days for a bit of hiking and one night's stay.

We spent a week at Amigos del Sol taking 4 hours of Spanish classes a day. Rogelio is amazing and probably the friendliest person on this trip. We ...

Quite an interesting day but no time to write now.

We arrived this morning at 2am after another 10 hour bus ride although it was probably 11 hours since we arrived over an hour late. There was also ...

We arrived in the morning after quite a comfortable bus ride. After some haggling with the taxi drivers I managed to reduce what they initially tr...

We walked to the top of the pyramid through some really srunning jungle. Then watched the rugby world cup final in a restaurant thanks to our frie...

Amazing little town. So glad to be out of the big city. Met a really friendly mexican.

Today we went to pick up our Cuban Visas. Actually before we left we wanted to finalise our flights to Cuba since our tickets hadn't been issued du...

Today we did a city bus tour. The bus does a 3 hour circuit and you can get on and off at any point. As this was going right by the Cuban Embassy...

We went to look at museums today because in Mexico City museums are free on Sundays!First we went to the Palcio Nacional where we looked at some of...

We arrived at about 20:00 local time which was about 2am in Central European Time that we had been in for the last month. It then took about two ...

A quick stop over in London because there is only one EasyJet flight out of Ljubljana a day at 17:00 and our flight to Mexico is at 14:00 the next ...

We took the train from Munich to Ljubljana via Salzburg. We weren't sure if Nicole was going to be let into the country as there was a slightly tec...

We got in at 7am on the overnight train from Milan. Walked around the city a bit in the morning, then took the local train out to Schliersee to mee...

We took the train from Nice to Milan which first followed the coast along the french riviera with some really stunning views. Although we passed th...

Leaving the Luberon we had to get to Nice to catch a train from there on Monday the 1st. So we left early on Sunday to get to the French Riviera an...

We drove along one of the marked routes for the Luberon, specifically the one marked for natural beauty, which took us through the beautiful gorge ...

Menerbes - Nicole was reading "A Year in Provence" and the author lived here. We had a nice coffee here.GordesRoussignol - beautiful little town ...

So we finally arrived in the Luberon after a few nights camping we decided to spoil ourselves with a littly bottom of the range hotel room. If ...

We did some wine tasting in:Rochefort-de-GudeTavel - the best rose of france. Ardeche valley - we camped here. This was recommended to us by the ow...

We were driving from Aix to Nimes but ended up looking at a couple of things along the way and not quite making it.Looked at the castle at Les Beau...

Only picked up the car at 5pm. We still had to go to Marseille to pick up the rest of our luggage. Only left Marseille late so camped along the way...

Got there a bit late from Avignon, set up the tent and then went out for dinner. Slept first night in tent on the hard floor since we didn't have a...

Bought the 12 euro pass.Saw the Roman Arena, Roman Baths, Roman Theater, Archeology Museum and two art museums.  Stayed in cute room right on ...

Took train to Cassis on the coast.3km walk of from train station to the harbour and beach was fun and downhill. 3km return walk in afternoon heat w...

Bought PACA trainpass and went on daytrip to Aix-en-Provence.Looked up letters of John Law in Bibliotheque de Mejanes. Surprised librarian as he ha...

We set off once again to les Callanques, this time on bus 23. Let's see where we end up. Briefly stopped by internet cafe first though where I crea...

After enquiries at location yesterday, Toby vaguely remembers being told that they should take bus 23 today. Nicole has done research though and is...

We set out to Les Callanques on Nicole's directions, i.e. bus 19 followed by bus 20. We end up at bus terminus at a very cute little bay that seems...

Manic repacking as EasyJet won't give us more than 20kg each despite us having purchased an extra bag allowance for 7 pounds. Toby manages to squee...

Lunch with Gareth, more chaos as we try to move across London with way too much stuff, drinks with Fritz and Hank at the Albany, dinner with Chris,...

Walk along Thames, drinks with Kate

Traumatic day. More details later.