AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 16 Aug 2008 | Views [929]
Hola Amigos, Another long bus drive with another breakdown. Blocked fuel line this time out in the middle of the desert. Went from sea level to 2300m in 10hrs. The drive was dangerous and dramatic with the road hugging cliffs looking out over the ocean ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 16 Aug 2008 | Views [644]
Hola All, Arrived at Nazca all excited about the flight over the nazca lines. It was a lovely blue sky day and we say lines as we drove through the desert to the camping area. This turned out to be the grounds of a hotel across the road from the airport.... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 12 Aug 2008 | Views [777]
Hola Amigos, Not well. Picked up a stomach bug yesterday and was quite unwell for the day. Seems that 4 or 5 of us all came down with something but it doesnt seem to be related. Didnt eat for most of the day and started feeling better late afternoon.... Read more >
PERU | Tuesday, 12 Aug 2008 | Photo Gallery
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 10 Aug 2008 | Views [621] | Comments [1]
Hola Amigos, One more taxi story. Last night we had a taxi driver with rat cunning. It was peak hour traffic when we left the hotel and once on the freeway the driver saw an opportunity. He went up the off ramp down the road about 100m then down the ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 9 Aug 2008 | Views [701]
Hola Amigos, When a taxi driver in Lima says put on your seat belt then he means it! Maybe it was that he wanted more for the fare or maybe it was just the way he drove normally. High speed driving. Missing cars by very small distances. breaking at ... Read more >
PERU | Friday, 8 Aug 2008 | Photo Gallery
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 8 Aug 2008 | Views [734] | Comments [1]
Hola All, A day wandering around town. Visited Catedral de Lima an amazing mosiac covered chapel with the remains of Francisco Pizarro, conquestedor. The remains were only found sometime in the 1970s in the walls of the crypt after an earthquake. The ... Read more >
PERU | Friday, 8 Aug 2008 | Photo Gallery
PERU | Friday, 8 Aug 2008 | Photo Gallery
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 7 Aug 2008 | Views [689]
Shrouded with fog or was it a combination of fog and smog. The arrival into lima at about 530pm was an eye opener. Apparently lima is covered with fog for 8 months of the year and August by the looks is one of them! It was a long drive taking about ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 7 Aug 2008 | Views [587]
Hola Amigos, Spent a couple of nights and a day at Huanchuca which other than being a beach town is the location of the largest adobe city in the world. We visited the Chan chan city ruins http://www.antropologia.com.ar/peru/chanchan.htm Spent the ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 6 Aug 2008 | Views [663]
Hola Amigos, Como estas usted? Quick update. We are in Peru! Just spent 4 days on the beach at Punta Sal and now can´t remember what happened before... A long and interesting drive from Cuenca. So much variety in landscape. Lunar landscape and ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 31 Jul 2008 | Views [510]
Hola Amigos, A few good things to know: una via is not a street name; toilet paper goes in the bin and not the toilet; Diesel is US$1.037 per gallon everywhere we have been in ecudor; fuel tankers have inflamble printed on them.... Day 0 - Cuenca ... Read more >
ECUADOR | Wednesday, 30 Jul 2008 | Photo Gallery
ECUADOR | Wednesday, 30 Jul 2008 | Photo Gallery
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 29 Jul 2008 | Views [683]
Hola Amigos, Day 1 - water levels were too high so canyoning was abandoned. The group went into banos for some exploring and to get a backlog of stinky clothes washed. The town had a lot of melcocha, chewy toffee, makers who were working their craft ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 27 Jul 2008 | Views [473]
Got back from our amazon trip and NO truck. Piled everyone and bags into a ute taxi and headed to where it was being repaired. Met the truck on the road. Had a broken alternator bracket which was welded before heading off for a 5hr drive to banos. Stopped ... Read more >
BOLIVIA | Sunday, 27 Jul 2008 | Photo Gallery
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 27 Jul 2008 | Views [557]
Hola ¿Como estas? So we drove into the jungle from Tena and found the rio napo the largest river in Ecuador. The flow was stronger than the big northern australian rivers when in flood so was quite impressive. The river was about 100m wide with large ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 22 Jul 2008 | Views [677]
Hola Amigos, Left Quito and have been driving for about 9 hours and just arrived at Tena in the Amazon basin. Amazing drive across the Andes and showed just a small example of how much water flowing into the amazon system. There were by far the most ... Read more >
ECUADOR | Monday, 21 Jul 2008 | Photo Gallery
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 21 Jul 2008 | Views [695]
Buenos Dias Amigos, Nice daytrip to Mindo in the cloud forest. Cloud forest? yes the same sort of thing as rainforest but in the clouds. Nothing like stating the obvious. Most of the others in the group went ziplining and rafting but not us. We were too sophisticated ... Read more >
ECUADOR | Sunday, 20 Jul 2008 | Photo Gallery
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 20 Jul 2008 | Views [750]
Hola all, Met the team and other travellers. 8 travellers including us for 3 weeks so lots of space then others will join. Didn´t feel particularly confindent about the organisation and didn´t instantly gel with any of the other travellers unfortunately.... Read more >
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