We had planned on having a few days in Salta but due to the bus situ we only had one. We started the day with Alex getting a hair cut. The precision that was taken over it was remarkable! Alex decided that he wanted to climb a hill and I just couldn’t be bothered. So …
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When travelling is literally just travelling!
As Hoff described at the end of her last post, the afternoon of the 18th December was a bit of a miserable one. Having discovered that every single long distance bus was full until after Christmas, and with no other viable alternatives presenting themselves, we were resigning ourselves to Christmas spent in San Pedro. This …
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High altitude ‘perspectives’
After a very hot then freezing cold bus ride we arrived at 6am in Uyuni. We had barely stepped off the bus before we were surrounded by tour guides telling us to ‘come this way’ to their shop and they will ‘give us a good price’. We basically had to shout that we needed to …
Sub of the day
The only thing that Hoff could talk about whilst we were in the jungle, apart from how much she was getting bitten by mosquitoes (which was quite a lot, to be fair), was how desperate she was for a Subway sandwich. Therefore, when we landed back in LP after our slightly bumpy flight, we went …
Bitten to smithereens!
The jeep was loaded and we all piled into the car. Our guide was accompanied by his wife who would be the chef for our trip, and also their 4 year old son (he was later dropped off with family). After what felt like driving down every road of Rurrenabaque making random stops we were …
Jungle fever
Hoff left you as we had just arrived in La Paz. Nestled in a valley in the mountains – when I say valley I mean a huge one with space for millions of people – LP is a mad city. It’s criss crossed with cable cars as the hills are so steep they need ski …
South towards Bolivia
Every so often we need an admin day to sort our route, get bus tickets and the most important thing…do laundry! We are becoming very bored with our clothes now as we are wearing the same stuff all the time but at least when they’re clean it’s a bit better! Alex needed to get his …
Salkantay trek – Part 2
The next morning we awoke to a much cooler but very misty view. The rain had done its job overnight and there were huge puddles everywhere. The wind had also blown open our door, which was a blessing in disguise as the person we were sharing our room with had very smelly feet. We were …
Salkantay trek – Part 1
Hoff was going to be writing this part but she has lots of Christmas shopping to do online, so you’ve got me again folks! I left you as we were about to get our bus to Cusco from Arequipa. We were back on the Peru Hop bus as we’d already booked and paid for this …
Yet another early wake up!
Our alarms went off almost as soon as we’d gone to bed and before we knew it we were in a minibus winding our way north towards Colca Canyon. The road is incredibly windy and Hoff soon wasn’t feeling too well with all the curves. Breakfast perked her up a bit but others in our …
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