So we wanted to write a little wrap up. First of all since we left each other's side a week ago, I have to say that, 1) it was one of the mos…

      And after a nice 2 hour drive through the valley, we were back in Santiago, the place where it all started. Thus we we…

        Em and her parents flew into Santiago where D was waiting for them with Flavio's (his dad's) car. Soon after we headed south in a hurry…

        We flew back to Bs As after having a wonderful wine filled time in Mendoza. Per usual, the plane was late so we got into the city a lit…

We arrived to Mendoza and checked in at the four star hotel that Mike and Susan (Em’s folks) were paying for, and damn! The first room was about tw…

    We arrived to the port of Buenos Aires, and had a strange greeting from the city. On the main street that ran by the waterfront, most people s…

    Our last bus ride of the trip was an enjoyable 2 hour saunter to Colonia del Sacramento. We arrived before the expected time which was nice es…

The bus ride getting here was a tad long at 5 hours, but this is our second to last bus so that knowledge made it more bareable. What did not made…

We arrived to Paysandu because we spent most of our day at Salto eating and chilling in thermal baths. After this harsh living in the morni…

The boat to Uruguay was a short 15 minute journey. We arrived to a delapidated dock and as it has been on this stretch, it is odd to feel like y…

When we finally arrived to Concordia on the border of Argentina and Uruguay after 12 hours of travelling, we were hungry and tired. We quickly f…

We decided to head over to Carlos Pellegrini to see the Esteros de Iberas which we read were quite nice. Apparently the way that most people get ther…

Gris, our friend from San Ignacio, gave us the name of a hostel in Posadas and since it billed itself as having a "chill out room" we decided to chec…

Our bus ride from Iguazu to San Ignacio was long but entertaining. We watched two manly-man movies, Casino Royal and Training Day. The Bond movie was…

We woke up early in the morning on Tuesday to get to the Argentine park for a full day of waterfall exploration. The second we arived to the park, we…

Hopefully this was our last overnight bus. We cound´t have slept less if we tried. We arrived to a chilly rainy Foz quite early in the morning. Grog…

After spending a nice night sleeping on the ground in our tent we were off to Morretes on foot. We had the choice of taking yeste…

The first thing we noticed about Curitiba as we pulled up in the bus early in the morning is that everyone outside was wearing jackets. Out of the b…

The 19 hour bus ride to Rio de Janeiro was quite good thanks to our friend, the sleeping pill. "What? It is 10 in the morning already? Can I sleep a …

Arriving to Porto Seguro was a pain. As we got down the bus vultures disguised as people started asking us what we wanted to do and where we wanted t…

Our arrival to Bahia was a little rough. After a long night on a bus we arrived to a daunting situation at the bus station that took a little time to…

We arrived in the evening at Recife and since we had our share of up-scale beach areas we decided to go to the center of Recife instead of the Bom Vi…

    We dashed a bit from Fortaleza to spend Danilo´s birthday in Natal, which we had heard is a nice city. We arrived there a littl…

Our bus ride from Fortaleza to Canoa Quebrada took twice as long as it was supposed to and since we weren´t feeling well to begin with, by the…

After three months over on the Pacific side of the continent, all we had to do was take a lot of buses, things that looked like buses (but weren´t),…

We left Tabitinga on our boat on Saturday afternoon. Once you´ve been on one of these river boats one or two times, it kind of gets monotonous. The …

Actually, the title is a little bit misleading, but definitely true. We arrived to the tri-border and headed to Tabatinga on the Brazilian side to r…

After relaxing and fun floating down the river we found ourselves in Iquitos. Finally. The city is well known for being the largest city in the …

We arrived to Tarapoto around 630am. Tarapoto is a nice little sweaty hot town where everyone rides scooters or motorcycles and there are a ton of mo…

We arrived to Loja to relax and organize ourselves before our dash towards Brazil through the Amazon. Loja is a nice city, altough its national …

So we got out of the trail and grabbed a rickety pick up to Chunchi. We arrived to the only hotel muddy and dirty, which pretty much has been th…

We wanted to get onto an Inca Trail that started from the town of Achapullas an hour away from Alausí, but there were no buses, so we were forced …

We arrived to Riobamba with the sole purpose of purchasing train tickets for the train from Riobamba down south to where the rail line ends. We were …

It seems as though we write about our bus rides often, but we spend so much time in transit and we're in such close quarters with people that we…

We went back to Quito to take care of some business (get another passport, get our entry stamps again, etc.) before leaving to the south. As mentione…

We took another long bus ride to the jungle. The bus ride started with an awesome Steven Seagal movie called Today You Die. A quick summary: Steven S…

Our bus ride from Otavalo to Quito was uncomfortable, to put it mildly. Danilo had a kicking, smelly, dirty child behind him for the first 2 hours. A…

A day like this could easily be one of the worst days ever, which speaks of how protected our lives have been and makes you feel slighly better about…

After Montañita we headed to Puerto Lopez to go to Isla de la Plata. Since we are travelling on a budget, we cannot go at the present time to Galapa…

We left Guayaquil looking for a break in our travelling aiming especially to get to a nice beach, while being pleasent yet not over the top for …

The best part of Guayaquil was the bus ride from Cuenca to Guayaquil, in other words Guayaquil is not that cool. We found a hotel centraly located, w…

Oh Cuenca, how beautiful you are. Cuenca was like an oasis after the terrible border crossing we had. So happy to be in Ecuador! Cuenca is the most u…

An advisor to fellow travellers: don´t use this border crossing. Things can go well or really wrong, especially in the Peruvian side. Either w…

We took a combi (a van crammed full of people, 23 in this case) to some cabañas a kilometer before the town of Zorritos. Finally we found a pla…

In search of our perfect beach town, we arrived in Mancora and were pretty dissapointed. It was simply touristy, and some Peruvians there were out to…

Again on an overnight bus (we love those overnight buses - they take you somewhere and you get to sleep in chairs that recline way back - airlines sh…

Trujillo was a pleasant surprise. When we came into the bus station we were not impressed with the city at all but once in the center of the city it …

After an overnight bus from Huaraz to Trujillo, we immediately escaped the bustling city of Trujillo for a more quiet laid back beachy surfy town for…

Matt and Madolyn left us the night of the 22nd. We all enjoyed a nice dinner together and bid farewell for the next few months. We went back to our h…

We got off the bus in a small town called Vaqueria where were supposed to have lunch. Instead we were lucky enough to find a half empty food store (s…

90% of Huaraz was destroyed in an Earthquake in 1970 and you can tell. The city is not big, and it isn´t done building yet. It isn´t a pleasan…

Out of the cities in this trip Lima had one of the worst reputation coming in, and in a superficial level it did not dissappoint. The taxi situation …

We awoke early on Friday morning to start with our group on the 4 day Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. The Peruvian government has regulated how many peop…

We stayed a night at Copacabana relaxing, and the next day jumped on a 10 hour bus ride to Cuzco, Peru to meet up with Madolyn and Mat…

On Saturday afternoon we got on the slowest boat either one of us have ever been on and floated over to La Isla del Sol (we calculated that you could…

We chose to go to Copacabana because we heard that there was a large celebration for Easter there. Lake Titicaca and Copacabana in particular is a ve…

Here again? Well, we didn´t plan to, but as it happens often our bus ride extended itself, in this case from 3 to 5 hours. Thus we arrived to La Paz…

We arrived to the sleepy, tropical town of Coroico in need of rest, food, and relaxation. So, in shocking fashion, we slept, ate, read, and relaxed.…

After staying at the lovely Norka´s apartment for a few days in the "big" capital city, it was time for us to get out and explore some nature. We wo…

We took another overnight bus to the capital city of La Paz. This bus was much better than the last Bolivian bus experience even though they played a…

After a pretty unbearable bus ride (6 hours, overbooked, and with the worst cumbia music imaginable blaring for the first 4 hours) we arrived to…

We hired a tour to take us from San Pedro de Tourismo to Uyuni in Bolivia, and the trip did not dissapoint although it certainly was a tough experien…

We took an overnight bus from Iquique to San Pedro. Straight away we were shocked by the amount of gringoes when we exited the bus. Apparantly this i…

The first stop on our adventure!!! We flew out of Santiago very early in the morning and arrived at this beautiful beach town by early afternoon…

The three days that Em spent with D were a whilrwind of trip planning, buying things we needed, running errands, and spending as much time with the f…