Monteverde - Costa Rica Exciting, green and facing fears. We arrived to Monteverde after a slightly bumpy journey at about 12. We decided to book a night walk for that evening as it was recommended as the best way to observe the wildlife in the area, and so we had done something with the day. Before this we just wandered around the very...
La Fortuna - Costa Rica Green and humid. After the 3 flights to get to Costa Rica, we spent just 1 night in San Jose before getting a public bus to La Fortuna at 8:40am. The bus was a little late arriving, but we expect that as from research and people telling us we knew trasport isn’t so great here. The journey was...
The Galápagos Islands - Ecuador No words. Pictures will be added in a couple of days, for now here’s what we got up to in the Galapagos. Day 1 No suprise, another early start but neither of us minded as we were both so excited to go to the Galapogas. It takes just under 2 hours to fly from Guayaquil to the Galapogas...
Colca Canyon - Peru Hot, steep and hot. Day 1 This was again another very early start with being picked up between 3 and 3.30, this meant we had to be up at 2.40 to make sure everything was ready. All these early starts are starting to have an affect on our sleeping pattern. Once we got picked up we had a 3...
Huacachina - Peru Tiny, fun and relaxing. Getting to Huacachina was not so fun. We were picked up at 5:30am and didn’t get to Huacachina until 7:30pm. Obviously we’ve done longer bus journeys but they’ve been overnight so we’ve just slept. Luckily we stopped for lunch in a gorgeous place along the coast with amazing views, we stopped to see the Nazca lines...
Arequipa - Peru Pretty, old and chocolate. Day 1 Once again we Had an overnight but so arrived in thr city early at 6am. This time Josh had managed to sleep but Rachel had not so Rachel was very hopeful that we could go straight bed when we got to the hostel. Fortunately we could so that's what we did. Once we were...
Machu Picchu - Peru Breathtaking, unbelievable and hard work. Day 1 Excitement levels high, nervousness levels similarly high. With a wake up call of 3am we met with our group and headed in the bus to the starting point. We arrived and all the porters rushed into action, putting up a table, adding chairs, preparing breakfast it was crazy. We tucked into scrambled...