Sometimes when travelling you need to treat yourself. Whether it be a special, tasty meal that reminds you of home, or a bit of a fancy restaurant where you can relax for a while. We found both these little luxuries…
Continue readingI’ve barely even sat on a mountain bike. Sure I had cheapish ones when I was younger, but I’m pretty sure they never had suspension and I definitely never really did any mountain biking with them; unless riding around a…
Continue readingIf Peru is most associated with Machu Picchu, Bolivia is perhaps best associated with the Salt Flats (or Salar d’Uyuni). This huge expanse of salt in Southern Bolivia makes for great traveller pictures and is a pretty unique sight. We…
Continue readingWe split our bus journey form La Paz to Uyuni up slightly. The whole journey takes about 12 hours and is renowned for being uncomfortable, due to a lack of paved roads, and absolutely freezing (the windows actually iced over!)…
Continue readingA big part of travel is food. Discovering new dishes is a fun way to get to know the country you’re in, and can lead you to discover delicious new foods (and sometimes not). We first arrived in La Paz…
Continue readingI´m a big fan of markets abroad.There´s not so many back home, at least not outside of London.When you do find them they´re quite often full of clothes you wouldn´t want to wear and Nike knock-offs. Markets abroad seem to…
Continue readingFirst impressions of Bolivia weren’t great. Whilst Peru was full of smiling faces and helpful people, Bolivia seemed grumpier and ruder. Crossing the border into Bolivia is a pretty slow process. I’ve heard and read it’s even worse for…
Continue readingLeaving Cusco meant organising our own transport for the first time (Peru Hop had been the easy way out in that respect). Fortunately Cusco is a pretty easy place to organise a bus from, with many companies heading to our…
Continue readingThen came the day the whole trek had been about. The big one. Seeing Machu Picchu. Our guide tried his best to tell our group of four that a bus ride to the top would be better, we would have…
Continue readingOn the fourth day of the Salkantay Trek we had a choice: trek along the road for 3 hours, or take on zip wires, crossing from one mountain to another. Guess which option we went for? Zip wires of course!…
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