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Saturday, 13 Sep 2008 | Views [805]
Hola All, What a change. Months of south america natives and then into a town of whiter than white people. This town seems to exist almost solely on tourism and seems to be a staging point for people going on tours to bolivia or just waiting for a bus.... Read more >
Saturday, 30 Aug 2008 | Views [684]
Hola Amigos, In bolivia. Border crossing was easy enough for most of us. Adam, american, was thrown into a windowless interogation room and harrassed by 3 beefy bolivian police officers. Eventually got through with a bribe. Tough being American in ... Read more >
Saturday, 30 Aug 2008 | Views [896]
Hola Amigos, An all so familiar drive from Cuzco toward Puno. Most of the way was backtracking along the same road to Arequipa. Long drive about 14hrs. Puno. Located on lake titicaca. Highest navigatable lake in the world. Think of these claim. Highest ... Read more >
Monday, 25 Aug 2008 | Views [615]
Hola Amigos, Was going to be a sleepy sunday except cuzco had a huge parade that went most of the day. Vanessa and I have no idea of the reason for the festival but it covered lots of groups from student nurses to tribal groups. Adios, David &... Read more >
Monday, 25 Aug 2008 | Views [660]
Hola Amigos, Back from the Inca trail. Nice little 42km walk. First day was a stroll for 8hrs in the mountains. Found it hard going on the second day with a two pass climb. First was 1000m to a 4200m pass then down 700m to 3500m up 400m to 3900m then ... Read more >
Wednesday, 20 Aug 2008 | Views [687]
Hola Amigos, Day started well with more coca tea...hope we don´t get drug tested before the inca trail. Superb day. Day tour of sacred valley starting at Saqsaywaman which is a large inca ruin situated above cuzco. Our guide told us that it was the ... Read more >
Monday, 18 Aug 2008 | Views [878]
Hola Amigos, Have arrived at Cuzco. I have some pan pipes now and Vanessa loves them (NOT). Learning how to play el condo pasa by numbers as we travel along on the bus but it doesn`t sound to good. Vanessa says that the peruvians when they play the ... Read more >
Monday, 18 Aug 2008 | Views [837]
Hola Amigos, Just to clarify. We are have a mixed time as per life. Sometimes the trip is excellent and sometimes it is terrible but most of the time it is good. We weren`t surprised when we got on the truck at 3am and Drew the driver had the front ... Read more >
Saturday, 16 Aug 2008 | Views [951]
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 >
Saturday, 16 Aug 2008 | Views [660]
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 >
Tuesday, 12 Aug 2008 | Views [793]
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 >
Sunday, 10 Aug 2008 | Views [635] | 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 >
Saturday, 9 Aug 2008 | Views [719]
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 >
Friday, 8 Aug 2008 | Views [754] | 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 >
Thursday, 7 Aug 2008 | Views [708]
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 >
Thursday, 7 Aug 2008 | Views [608]
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 >
Wednesday, 6 Aug 2008 | Views [688]
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 >
Thursday, 31 Jul 2008 | Views [531]
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 >
Tuesday, 29 Jul 2008 | Views [702]
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 >
Sunday, 27 Jul 2008 | Views [492]
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 >
Sunday, 27 Jul 2008 | Views [573]
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 >
Tuesday, 22 Jul 2008 | Views [690]
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 >
Monday, 21 Jul 2008 | Views [710]
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 >
Sunday, 20 Jul 2008 | Views [768]
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 >
Saturday, 19 Jul 2008 | Views [738]
Thanks everyone for the emails. We like receiving them but won´t be replying to many as there are soooooooo many of you and so few of us. Keep sending them as we enjoy reading them but our typing is soooooooo slow.... Regards, David and Vanessa
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