BOLIVIA | Monday, 19 Feb 2007 | Views [542] | Comments [1]
This is an extract from my journal. Day 1 I have just returned from our jolly upto Laguna Glacial some 5038m to be precise. After much deliberation in La Paz and Sorata i decided i could do it. We set out with our guide Roland to go shopping for supplies ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
BOLIVIA | Saturday, 2 Sep 2006 | Views [2825] | Comments [3]
I think the photos speak volumes about this ride. In Bolivia a hour drive out of La Paz, it started up at 4700m, freezing cold with a 65k decent to 1400m in the jungle to Yalumba. Starting the ride rugged up, fleeced up on tarmac. Smooth road that you ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
BOLIVIA | Saturday, 2 Sep 2006 | Views [325]
Ok Im writing this 2 months down the line, its been a while, ive been procrastinating and spending all my internet time just putting photos on the journal and not actually telling you about the whole experience. Ive had to deal with some of the most ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
PERU | Saturday, 17 Jun 2006 | Views [292] | Comments [1]
I rekon the Incas are crazy, as to why they wanted to build cities and towns high in the mountains is beyond me. 4 days of hard slog but was it beautiful and amazing? yes it sure was. From Mountains, to dry lands to maountains again, right into the jungle.... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
BOLIVIA | Thursday, 15 Jun 2006 | Views [765] | Comments [4]
Wow, with our arrival into Cusco on Corpus Christi, spaced out from our 12 hour bus jouney from Arequipa it was like landing on the moon. In the words of the great Lional Richie "Fiesta forever, come along and sing along, all night long............ Read more >
Tags: Party time
PERU | Saturday, 10 Jun 2006 | Views [409] | Comments [1]
Up at 5 am which seems to be the norm for us at the mo to set off for the Colca Canyon, 5 hour bus ride up to Chivay through the pampas, checking out Llamas, Alpacca and Vicuñas along the way up to 4800m, where i could just about breathe sitting on the ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
PERU | Thursday, 8 Jun 2006 | Views [245]
The day after a big bus journey is like being in space, you do sleep on these buses, they are comfy, well some are if you pay the price, but its the kind of sleep thats intermitten every 15 mins by a mega honking bus horn, your drool tickeling your chin ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
PERU | Sunday, 4 Jun 2006 | Views [421]
Wow what a flight, Iberia sucks as an airline. Didn´t think we where going to get fed for 12 hours. After our dodgy meal, it was a free for all and self service. British Airways have spoilt us, with indiviual TV´s and seat service, but iberia could ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
PERU | Friday, 2 Jun 2006 | Views [290] | Comments [1]
My MY where does one start........... Its been 3 and a bit weeks now that ive been procrastinating on this journal. Now i could bore you to death with every last detail and i may but i may also just give you snippets. 3 weeks, oh my whats happened, ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
