The jungle boat trip to Rurrenabaque was a really amazing trip, but it wasn't just an aimless adventure up stream - we'd gone to Rurrenabaque for a reason. This pretty little town is the main touristy centre for organising trips into the jungle and out to Las Pampas del Yacuma - the lush nature reserve...
Coming to South America, visiting the Amazon was high on my list of priorities. Having not made it all the way to the top of Brazil yet, Bolivia's section of the Amazon Basin just north of La Paz offered me my first opportunity to go into the jungle. Not only that, this section is apparently...
The Coca Museo came highly recommended by one of the guides at the Potosi mine tour, so I was excited to stumble across it in the touristy centre of La Paz. Walking in though it became clear that it was not the amazing place I'd been lead to believe! Just about in the 'so bad...
Not that I readily admit it, but all my life I've been a bit of a grappling fan. Just old enough to catch the end of the golden age of British Wrestling - fat men in pants like Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks slugging it out pantomime style in front of large Saturday afternoon audiences...
Freelancing as I go is actually starting to work out - with a combination of old clients from London and Europe and picking up jobs from websites like elance.com. This has all been fantastic so far, but my very first elance client turned into a complete nightmare and used a logo design commercially but refused to...
Casa Real de la Moneda was the first Royal Spanish coin mint built in Potosi (which at the time was one of the biggest and most important cities in the world). In those days Spain was the world’s dominant empire and after discovering the riches inside Cerro Rico it began flooding the world with their...
Having got things going in Buenos Aires, but not really managed to add much to my savings, I was keen to try and make a bit more headway as I settled into life in Sucre. Using my own contacts to try and find work as well as webistes like elance.com and odesk.com, I was hopefull...
A South American city seems to be worthless without a big statue of Jesus bearing down on it from some adjacent vantage point – and Sucre is anything but worthless. Sucre actually has two big hills looking down on it and rather than waste an opportunity (or freak everyone out with two Jesus’) they’ve put...
Sucre is a city of hills and mountains and there are several great spots you can climb to which offer amazing views. Having been here now for around 7 weeks I would say the most pleasant of these spots has to be at Cafe Mirador. Perched on a hill in Recoleta- just at the foot...
Having dusted off my boots in Buenos Aires I'd been bitten by the bug again and have been really missing playing football - so knowing I'd be stopped in Sucre for a while I was keen to find a way of playing a bit. Fortuitously, a couple of days in I was drinking with some...
Since stopping in Sucre, I´m getting invited to the occasional party and meal with Bolivian friends. These parties, more often than not, end up with a bit of a dance. Not being too shy (and usually by the time the dancing starts having drunk a little), I seem to be the ´good-sport´ gringo mug that...
Arriving at Estadio Olímpico Patria for the final game of the season, there was a whole extra level of excitement and atmosphere. The Strongest were in town, and as one of Bolivia’s really big (well relatively) and successful sides, they attract a lot of glory hunters I think. They were also in with a chance...
I actually did the actual walking tour in actual Lima. Actually.
Aug 8, 2011
Possibly the worst bus ride ever with Tepsa from Cusco to Lima…
Jul 31, 2011
Pirwa Hostel – Cusco, Peru
Jul 30, 2011
Machu Picchu on the cheap… another wonder off the list
Jul 29, 2011
Cusco – the amazing city everyone forgets to mention…
Jul 29, 2011