After a few days searching in Vancouver we found our perfect American car! A 2002 Dodge Dakota 4WD. It has a beautiful sounding 5.8L v8 engine and is Quad cab with plenty of room for people in the back seat! We were so worried we were going to buy a lemon but we got it checked…
3 flights was all it took to get from Quito to Vancouver. Our flight leaving Quito was at midnight so we went to the airport early and had the most expensive but delicious Jack Daniels ribs and a margarita at TGI Fridays. At the gate we got alerted to the fact that the plane had…
In Peru Matt and I started to regret having already booked our ticket out of South America from Quito for the 13th. We were feeling like it would be a good idea to leave for Canada around the 1st and go and get a place sorted in Revelstoke, find a car and do all that…
We arrived in Lima the afternoon we left Nasca and headed to one of the oldest hotels in the city that has been maintained nicely. It was a bit of a step up from the hostals we’ve been staying at. It’s this point in the trip where we just felt like a bit of luxury!…
Our aim was to head to the North Coast of Peru to get some beach time, and along the way was the famous Nasca where they found the Nasca lines of the ancient people after many years. We took an overnight bus from Arequipa and arrived in Nasca about 8am in the morning, so we…
From Cusco we took an overight bus to Arequipa in the South. From here we could do a trek to explore the Colca Canyon region. In parts the Canyon is 4,160m deep which is twice the depth of the grand canyon. We looked around Arequipa for a day and then organised a 3 day tour…
So another 8 hours on the bus to Cusco. Cusco was a really cool city. All the towns and cities we’ve been to in South America have a plaza (square) which is the main feature of town. Directions are given in relation to plazas (a lot are called Plaza San Fransisco, San Fransisco is big…
We had to head up to Peru to meet the girls in Cusco so we decided to take a route along Lake Titicaca via Copacabana in Bolivia, then across the border into Puno, Peru. Then from Puno we would head straight to Cusco. Copacabana was a nice little town on the lake, we stayed here…
Fritz and Kathy are a couple we met at the convention in Sao Paulo Brazil. When they heard we were coming up tot Bolivia they invited us to go stay with them and see how they live in Irupana in the Yungas in Bolivia. They were originally from the USA and have 3 grown children…
Matt is the research man of the trip and is doing an absolutely fantastic job! While we really wanted to go to the Pantanal in Brazil it turned out that it was almost impossible to book online and was also very expensive. So we opted to do the Amazon jungle and a Pampas trip instead…