The tour had now finished but the kids had a few extra days in Lima like me. I said goodbye to Sarah, Mike, Thea, Carolina, and Andrea. We couldnt af…

We travelled through Ica to go on the huge dunes, we would continue onto Pisco in the evening but for today it was all about the dunebuggies, th…

Nazca was only relevant to tourists because of the famous lines that lay here in the desert, other than that theres nothing really to do in the town.…

hangovers plus altitude plus long journeys is the worst possible mixture. After a couple of hours sleep and a banging head i didnt fancy the 5 hour c…

Arequipa or the white city as its also known really took me by suprise, as the flight came into land i could see the fantastic landscape, the 3 volca…

Before i left for this trip i knew this next 4 days would be very challenging, i had been to the gym a few times and lost abit of weight back in the …

Today we travelled from Cusco with our 6kg bags, our big backpacks where left in the hotel and smaller bags taken to hold our slepping bags and matre…

Only me and Andrea took the optional Amazon tour, we met up with 3 other people from GAP at the airport. Tasmin and Bruce brother and sister from lon…

Strikes in Bolivia and Peru are very common, disagreements over roads land and money are the main cause. Today we are due to take a bus for 7 ho…

Woke up to a sunny morning which was great, we had to spent the best part of 4 hours on a boat today so i was slightly aprehensive, i took a travel c…

Arrived in La Paz at 10am. Im not sure what i expected from this city but it was crazy, every inch of space was taken up either with cars, houses, ma…

Arrived at the tour agent on time, about 10 jeeps where all lined up on the side of the road waiting to load up. When they called out our names for t…

The bus journey to La Quinta was horrible, the bus was falling to pieces for a start. Nothing like previous buses i have travelled on. My luck had ru…

My time in Buenos Aires was really short, i would loved to have spent a week here i really like it but i never accounted for how much of my time woul…

Woke up after 4 hours sleep, and that wasnt the best sleep. Really stuffy room and one of the english guys was snoring the whole time. Today i was me…

Took my first flight within South America, working for an airline myself im always watching how other airlines work. But the safety video really…

This evening i took the 14 hour bus journey to Florianopolis, i was accompanied by Willy a big german guy who was playing drinking games with us, he …

Today i will make my way to see the Iguazu falls from the Argentinian and Brazilian border. This would involve my first long distance bus journey,&nb…

Favellas are the masses of houses that occupy the hills all around Brazil. The Word favella comes from the plant that once thrived on the hills on wh…

Everyday since arriving here its been 35 degrees, i think its the hottest place ive been too. Its not really humid so bearable in the morning and lat…

Met up with dad today back in Rio, it was really good to see him, he was really tired from the flight so we chilled and made plans for the follo…

My main worry on this trip was not for my safety, or that i would run out of money but that i would not meet any friends. This is virtually impossibl…

Today was a chance to tick of one of my "things to do in Rio". Football is the biggest sport in Brazil by far, the national team has won the wor…

The trip started with a drive down to Heathrow. Thinking we had plenty time to get there we set off at midnight. Little did we know that there was ro…

The Sambadrome is the place to be during carnival. It consists of 700m stretch of street converted into a permanent parade with seating built on eith…

Today was all about finding our feet (they were still at the bottom of my legs) The hotel we were staying was really nice, we had a sea view over Cop…

Thats all i need. So why is it i cant fasten my backpack! I did what was recommended, i laid my stuff out, two pairs of shorts, two t-shirts etc, min…