I was sad to be leaving Cusco. We spent around a week in and around this awesome city, visiting Inca ruins, grand Spanish churches, rugged mountain scenery and, of course, Machu Picchu. We then hopped on a bus headed for Bolivia – here’s everything you need to know about the journey from Cusco to La … Read more
Our guide was guzzling water like there was no tomorrow. I was thirsty, having severely underestimated how tiring searching for rhinos in Chitwan National Park would be. The guide started to morph into one of those good looking college kids from a Coke commercial — you know, the ads where everyone is drinking Coke and having … Read more
After three night buses in five days, we arrived in Puerto Varas in the pouring rain. It wasn’t a great start (it rained that entire first day) but I quickly came to realise that Puerto Varas is a cool little town, and the nearby Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park (Chile’s oldest national park) is a … Read more
You read the title right; the Santa Catalina Monastery has streets! It’s more like a small town than a religious complex — there’s a cafe, lots of small houses and even a park. We took a few hours to explore the Santa Catalina Monastery during our stay in Arequipa, Peru. This is what we saw. … Read more
It has been tough keeping up with this blog while travelling through Latin America. In a bid to be more up to date without having to be constantly writing, I thought I’d start summing up the previous month of travel in one convenient post (this one is a bit late because I just spent the … Read more
You’d be hard-pressed to find a small town with a more interesting setting than Huacachina, Peru. Sitting quietly below huge sand dunes, this tiny desert oasis a great place to relax and, if you’re feeling adventurous, do some sand boarding and tear around on a dune buggy. Dune buggying “Let me know if you want … Read more
Canned laughter reverberates through the halls of a hostel in Santiago; the constant “every line is a joke” dialogue and resulting fake laughter of The Big Bang Theory is making it hard to focus on writing this post about Sucre. It does get me thinking though…does having a studio audience laughing at the perfect time … Read more
If you’ve never hiked in a cloud forest before, here’s a brief overview of what you’ll see: Lots of mud Lots of rain Lots of insects Lots of trees Doesn’t sound like much fun, does it? Despite all the discomfort, I grew to love cloud forests, and Boquete is home to some of the best … Read more