I have been living in Cusco, Peru since May and having been really enjoying my stay here. I initially worked as part of the Mountain Fund which is a charity set up to help Porters in Nepal and Peru get fair rights. The Mountain fund organised my accommodation with Yuri and his family and […]
Read MoreWe got up at 3.30 am to catch the four o’clock bus, to see these birds. The bus turned up at 4.15. Then the bus driver forgot to tell us where to get off so we ended up in Copanaconde and had to hang around for an hour to get a bus back to […]
Read MoreYou can only get in to see Chincherro with a tourist ticket. It caused great difficulty for us as some of our group did not have a tourist ticket. Chincherro has a lovely church built on Inca remains. The wall and ceiling of the Church are heavily decorated by wonderful paintings mainly of flowers. […]
Read MoreSalta is quite a modern pleasant city but with very elegant Colonial buildings and has a cowboy feel about it as it caters to the local Gauchos and landowners. It has a nice town square and a stunning Cathedral. There is a cable car to Cerro San Bernardo for some magnificent views. It is famous […]
Read MoreThis is a lovely little colonial village surrounded by multicoloured mountains with lots of great walks and hikes. It also has a wonderful pre Inca site and some great museums. It has some superb hostels and a beautiful plaza where lots of artisans sell their wares but without pressurizing you to buy.
Read MoreThe backdrop to this village is an amazing seven coloured mountain and there is a great circular walk you can do round the village. They have halted all new building growth here and if any new properties are to be built it will be in keeping with the older colonial buildings. It is a […]
Read MoreSan Pedro de Atacames is a pretty little town high up in the Andes famous for its salt flats and arid desert. Imagine my surprise to hear my name called across the square only to see my friend Gustavo from Edinburgh and his Spanish girlfriend sitting having a drink in the square. The world is […]
Read MoreThis is a fabulous trip for the adventurous. I travelled from Bolivia to Chile by way of the Salir de Uyuni. We travelled through the 10582 square kilometre salt lake, past abandoned trains that have history of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid holdups, passing hot geysers spurting up from the ground and beautiful lagoons […]
Read MoreThe very excellent Centro Nanta and the many working children it helps to support. This group is not involved in politics or religion. The organisation was started in 1996 by the Church giving out milk on Sundays. Now the Commodore feeds the kids every day and gives them snacks. They are not considered street […]
Read MoreBolivia is a very poor country and Sucre is its capital. Sucre is a beautiful white Colonial City and a World Heritage centre. Because of this Sucre is very much cleaner than any other city in Bolivia. Having said that the toilets are very poor and scarce. Dogs roam the city freely and inspect […]
Read MoreLa Paz is not the Capital of Bolivia although it is the largest city in Bolivia. The roads are liable to be closed when there is a lot of rain. Potosi is the highest city in the world but La Paz is the second highest. There is a wonderful Franciscan monastery in Plaza San […]
Read MoreThis is the Carnival of Pisily which is an indigenous village where everyone speaks Quechua. the people here maintain the original customs and costumes from Inca times. the activity of the region of Pisily is agriculture and work with cloth for example weaving ponchos. La Pukara is the totem pole like structure made up […]
Read MoreThis was a lovely local festival. It has only been running for four years so foreigners were made very welcome and I was invited into the centre of the circle around the offerings to take my photos. Everyone came in dancing to their band in groups to lay their offerings under the big structure […]
Read MoreI took a 48 hour bus from BA to Oruro Bolivia so that I was in time for the Carnival. The bus journey was horrendous. The toilet stank day one and the bus was horrible not like the sleek Argentinian ones. The air conditioning did not work and so it was hot sticky and […]
Read MoreJoanna, Caroline, Iain, Charlotte, Otto, Olivier, Loli, Andres, Tom, Thomas, Jeff and Lifong, Fabrizzio and Celi too many to mention and not forgetting El Sol de San Telmo in its heyday. The fun we had and the wine we drunk!! San Telmo is still my favourite place to stay in Buenos Aires with its historic […]
Read MoreIsla del Sol on Lake Titicaca is apparently where the Incas are reputed to have arrived in South America. They do not know where they came from as they were a very developed Nation with a good infrastructure. The Incas were the High ranking officials but while they conquered they also allowed the Tiwanaku […]
Read MoreIt was autumn so the time of year made for fabulous photos of colourful leaves. I also travelled through some of the smaller villages in the Argentinian Lake District which is just like a mini Switzerland with lakes and mountains, wooden chalets and lots of chocolate! Puerto Madryn is famous for its penguins and sea […]
Read MoreOf course Joanna, Caroline and I did the obligatory wine tour and more than one hic! We took the cable car up to Las Lenas Argentina’s ski resort, visited the highest mountain in South America, Aconcagua in the Andes 22841 feet, and took photos of beautiful Puente del Inca a natural rock bridge with fascinating […]
Read MoreThe thundering waterfall of Iguazu on both the Argentinian side and the Brazilian side is awesome. There are 275 falls or cataracs and some of the falls are up to 82 metres in height. the devil’s throat is the most impressive and marks the border of Argentina with Brazil. This is a UNESCO World heritage […]
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