La Gringa en El Peru

Learning "Peruvian Punctuality" which is an oxy moron....

 

Around the world in 86 days

_Julia_ Tuesday (8th May 2007). Sam & Jenni had arrived, so the dangerous drinking stakes had just got higher for Craigles. We went to meet Ani, the wedding coordinator at Manuia Beach hotel, who I had months emailing and organising with. We fin...

 

Peru

23 May 07 Afternoon Trip to Cahuachi, Estaqueria and The Aquaduct We didn't want to waste today clock-watching for our night bus so we booked ourselves on to a tour which left at 1.30pm, an hour after check out. The tour lasted about 4 hours and to...

 

RTW with Steph and Dion

Written by Dion August 11-12, 2006 We decided to spend a couple of days in Uruguay, so we boarded the 9:00AM Buquebus ferry from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay on Friday morning. The ferry itself was quite nice and the rid...

 

Grand ol' world tour

The Navimag cargo ferry, our home for five nights and the best fun you can have on a ship loaded with cargo trucks, cows and sea-sick passengers. Travelling on the first trip of the high season meant that the boat was only a third full. Which was exc...

 

South America 2006

Scored emergency exit row seats for our two longest flights over (Sydney to Auckland then Auckland to Santiago), which made the 24 hour trip a bit less torturous. Chile (the airport at least) was quite chilly, and then so was Buenos Aires, but it wa...

 

Don't slam the door behind you on the way out....

The original plan was to spend xmas in Koh Pha-Ngan for the full-moon parties - but the forecast wasn't good, so we headed off Krabbi with the intention of going to Koh Phi Phi (aka "The Beach"). We stopped off in Krabbi (which was really nic...

 

2004.11~2005.02 South America

Month 1 of our 4 month trip through South America. We started our journey back at the beginning of November with a few days in Buenos Aires, and although we’re not normally that keen on big cities, we really enjoyed it. The city is very cosmopolitan...

 

South America Adventures

Ok guys, can´t remember where I left you, but I now have friends! Horray! My room mate is called Liz, not Elizabeth Rose as I 1st feared... she´s got a great sense of humour and I´ve threatened to call her by her official title from h...

 

ECUADOR!

 

CUZCO

On a passe ces derniers jours sur les traces des Incas, dans les ruines et les petits villages. Tout est impressionnant, interessant et plutot grqandiose. Le plus incroyable, le Machu Picchu... Une ville perdue, des temples, des maisons, des cultures ...

 

The World Jaunt

Auckland...

 

Cusco

Cusco is a beautiful medieval town perched on the fringes of the sacred valley. Most of the buildings date from the spanish invasion (about 500 years ago) but a lot of the stone walls and foundations that the spanish built on were from the Inca period...

 

Des & Tom´s Latino Adventures!

Saturday 8th April// Sunday 9th April//...

 

Our Big Around the World Adventure

We arrived in San Pedro de Atacama after 3 days touring through the Bolivian salt flats and deserts, rather the worse for wear and very grubby! Thrilled to be in a place that was a bit more upmarket and tourist friendly, we treated ourselves to our mos...

 

3 weeks to go in London

Starting this off 9 months into the trip probably seems a bit strange but I've decided that I would like to have some type of memory like this that is official rather than lots of bits and pieces and scribbled bits of paper all over the place when I do...

 

World Trip 2007-2008

We finally got to this place called "San Pedro de Atacama", a tiny little town in the middle of a plain in the Atacama desert that was surrounded by mountains in the far distance. Some of the houses and their rooves were made of mud. The road...

 

Me & My 20 Kilo Backpack in South America 2006

The start of our trip through Argentina's Patagonia. The first stop was at SANTA ROSA. Santa Rosa is the capital of La Pampa, it is relatively new city as it was only founded in 1892. (So the Lonely Planet guide says) It was a very quiet chilled...

 

South American Adventures

After arriving at 6am, going to a hostel to be told they only had 3 beds (there are 6 of us), we decided to book ourselves onto a tour that left at 8am to visit the mines of Potosi. These mines are run by cooperatives and only pay minimal taxes which ...

 

worldtrip 2002-2003

I travelled around the globe during 1 year. Continents i visited: South-America, Fiji-islands, NZ, OZ, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, India and Nepal....

 

THE HOT ADVENTURES OF A NOT COLD BIATCH

Had to draaag myself out of bed and realised I had absolutely no idea what I had booked for myself so couldn't really pack for my overnight stay on an island on Lake Titicaca. So kept the rest of the group waiting while I, completely flustered, threw s...

 

Peru - Lake Titicaca, Cuzco, Inca Trail, Mt Chachani, Arequipa, Colca Canyon and Condors

Puno was our first stop in Peru. This town is based around tours to Lake Titicaca (for us anyway)and that is exactly what we did. We left early one morning and the first stop was the Uros floating islands. We had a good guide who told us lots of h...

 

Gap Year 2003

Lima, Peru Flying vist back through Lima on way south to Pisco...

 

Wish you were here?

Hi, After we left you on Monday afternoon we took a walk from our hotel down to the Tulum ruins on the beach. We didn't have the place to ourselves like at Chichen Itza unfortunately but most of the tour buses had departed. The ruins are of a Mayan...

 

Round the World Trip 2006/07

We arrived in La Paz on Thursday afternoon. It is absolute mayhem here! Buses, taxis, combis and people everywhere. Crossing the road is a challenge in itself. We went to an Asian restaurant for our farewell meal on Thursday night. Having not had a cur...

 

South America 05-06

Made it to the bus station in Santiago with about 10 minutes to spare- which usually puts me there before most of the Chileans. I had heard there may be snow on the pass, but the roads were clear, so we made it over with no problems. Well, it did tak...

 

Cusco - Centre of the Inca world

Tourist centre this. locals will try and sell you anything they can think of. and they persistent. irritating little town. very pretty though...

 

South America 2006

This bit is on it´s way......

 

Inca42

Ok so I haven't written an update for quite a long time so I've forgotten a lot of the details of what's happened. Nonetheless I will try to give a brief overview of what I've done in the last couple of months. The last entry covered up until I arri...

 

South America 2006

From Foz do Iguazu, we headed south in to Argentina and have had a few very long days driving. The first night, we had a "bush camp" enroute and pitched our tents in the middle of a forest with no-one for miles around us, it was good fun, ...