This past week was one of revisiting, relaxing and checking off to-do list items. So, I’ll keep it short and sweet 🙂[icon icon=icon-smile size=14px color=#444 ]. Our Final Days in Peru After our long bus ride back to Lima, we had a couple of days to relax in the city before our flights to…
Sunday we awoke to the bluest skies we’ve seen since arriving in Huaraz and clear views of every snow-capped peak surrounding the town. So what did we do? We boarded a nine hour bus out of town! Given that the weather wasn’t allowing us to complete the Santa Cruz trek (the reason for our visit…
Wrapping up Family Time With two days left with the family, my mum and I headed off to Pachacamac for a tour of the enormous ruins. These date back to AD200 but were added to by various cultures over the years, up to the Incas. Dad, Ethan and Terry were supposed to be having a…
Wandering the streets of Barranco During our time in Lima we rented an apartment in Barranco. This is the more bohemian neighbourhood and we have not regretted this choice. Each day some time is spent wandering the colonial streets filled with interesting architecture and incredible street art. Little plazas dotted around give locals and foreigners…
A Long Travel Day New Years Day began and we packed up and headed off to the bus station. We hadn’t pre-booked tickets for Guayaquil, assuming we wouldn’t need to but as we showed up at the terminal to find barricades erected to organize the lines and a security guard assigned to direct those waiting…
Phew, what a year! We have had an amazing 2017 and I’m not sure we’re ready for it to be over, but 2018 is shaping up to be just as great. With so much happening over the past year, we decided to write a round up post of sorts to remember it all. It’s amazing…
Thanks to the incredibly slow internet on the islands, we were unable to post our usual travel journal last week. So we decided to lump the two weeks together and write one big post for our entire 10-night, 11-day adventure! Put the kettle on, kick off your shoes and get comfy, you could be here…
Click here to read our Travel Journal posts from our year of travel! Enjoying Ecuador’s Coast We did our usual and spent our first week in Manta thinking we had so much time left. Then spent our second week trying to fit everything in. It feels like we have been non-stop since Saturday. Despite…
Back at the Beach! We arrived in Manta on Ecuador’s coast and were ready for the heat again after the chill of the mountains. However, despite being so close to the equator there is a constant breeze and we have barely broken a sweat if we’re anywhere near the water. Apparently this is a few…
Our first visit to Panama is nearly over, but we will definitely be back to see more of this beautiful country! La India Dormida We returned to El Valle, this time to climb La India Dormida (The Sleeping Indian Woman). This hike is named for the fact that it looks like, shockingly, a sleeping…
