Highlights of the trip were being woken up by monkeys shitting on the roof (turns out we were right under their dumping ground), the group of people we were with (they rocked and we got to play lots of cards) and having my sister with me.

For me the Pampas tour was very similar to the Los Llanos trip in Venezuela. We went looking for an anaconda (and found one this time), fishing for piranhas (I was a bit of an expert by now and caught the most), swimming with the pink dolphins and lots of opportunities to take photos [...]

We had wanted to do a jungle trip to compare the Amazon jungle of Peru to Bolivia but it turns out that the popular tour in Rurrenabaque is the Pampas tour. The jungle tour isn’t run in English so it was off to the Pampas.

We decided to fly Rurrenabaque via La Paz to save some time. Rurrenabaque is a tiny Bolivian town on the edge of the jungle and pampas which has a grass air strip which was pretty cool to land on as the plane wheels went skidding around on the grass. The girl behind me [...]

On our last day in Cusco we went to Maras where there are Inca salt pans which are still in production and then to Moray which is a huge terraced amphitheater. The Incas used this hanging gardens as a nursery.
I also ran into Stephen a German rider that I had met in Quito [...]

Just to go on the train/bus and the entry fee to Machu Picchu is $100US. Worth it? You decide! Afterwards we went to the local town for a coffee and a soak in the hot springs.

I am too tired from walking up and down mountains to write anything. But great views and lots of ruins.

We had a small group of four which included two Australian’s (a doctor and an engineer). As we had a three bowl washing system we decided to call ourselves Team Hygiene. Herbie (our guide), Joel and Baz were excellent company, extremely funny and enjoyed playing cards in the evening. Thanks to [...]

It isn’t really that hard if I managed to do it after ten months of inactivity on a motorcycle. Though that is if you don’t carry all your own stuff. And don’t think that hiking for three days and getting up at three in the morning on the last day will get you [...]

After going to see the parrot clay lick early in the morning on the last day of our jungle trip the rest of the day was spent driving back to Cusco. I don’t know how the bus drivers here do it. I would struggle to get a bus that size around those roads [...]

The morning we were suppose to go to the parrot clay lick we woke up to pouring rain. So I got the chance to write up my blog for the first couple of hours before we headed off to do a canopy zip line which looked pretty scary but wasn’t that bad at all.
Then [...]

Cock of the Rock is the name of the official Peruvian bird and we went to a lek where they perform dances to attract the females. And yes it is a funny looking bird. On our bird walk I wasn’t so lucky in being able to take photos of the birds but did [...]

Someone on our trip to Colca Canyon (to see the Condors) told us that in the Peruvian jungle you could go and see a macaw or parrot clay lick where all the birds go to eat clay to help them digest the toxins in the plants that they eat. We managed to find a [...]

There is a job that I really want but it turns out that they want someone who can start straight away. After my sister leaves it would only take a few days to ride down to Northern Argentina and I considered applying as I am worried that after my sister goes I will be [...]

Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world at 3,856 meters above sea level. It sits between the borders of Bolivia and Peru and is roughly 165km long by 70km wide. If you go on a tour from Puno I would recommend only doing the half day tour to the reed [...]