A Travel Blog by Katie Chavez
Thanks to the accrual of many air miles, we spent our first two nights in Canada in the Toronto Airport Hilton. It felt impossibly luxurious and we made the most of it, eating stomach busting portions of the buffet breakfast, eating lots of the free fruit from the lobby, swimming in the pool, watching trashy TV […] Read more…
So because we only had a short amount of time left to us before our flight to Toronto, we decided to spend our last week in Rio, rather than rushing around trying to see more of Brazil. Unfortunately before we could relax, we had to complete 18 hours on a bus to Sao Paulo then […] Read more…
We arrived to freezing Buenos Aires and eventually managed to find the subway system after a couple of false starts and confusion over all of the other different types of trains. Day One in Buenos Aires We found our little hostel, outside the tourist zone, and left our bags there before going in search of […] Read more…
Well our first impressions of Argentina weren’t the best due to the countrywide bus strike and our trouble finding a hostel in Jujuy, where we ended up for our first night. Luckily things changed rather quickly. We didn’t see much in Jujuy, although we did walk around with our bags for over an hour trying […] Read more…
It’s expensive, it’s freezing and the days are long, but despite all of this, our tour to the remote South West corner of Bolivia was spectacular. The tour began with us meeting our tour guide and cook and the other two people in our group at the Tour Office, then we set out in our […] Read more…
So of course it didn’t end up being as straight forward as we thought it would be to get to Sucre in Southern Bolivia. It never is in South America. Our bus trip was terrible due to the fact that there is no toilet on the bus and the driver refused to stop until 1.30am […] Read more…
So our journey continued with a flight on Bolivia’s Military airline, TAM, from La Paz to Rurrenabaque. It was a bit too bumpy for my liking but in the 50 minutes we were flying the change in landscape was very dramatic. We flew over snow-capped peaks and milky turquoise lakes then dramatically the mountains dropped […] Read more…
La Paz is a big, dirty city but what makes it different than most is its spectacular setting, in a natural bowl surrounded by high mountains to protect it from the harsh climate. I wasn’t overly impressed by La Paz on my first day looking around. There aren’t a lot of obvious attractions and I […] Read more…
Arequipa We arrived in Arequipa after possibly the worst night bus yet, replete with seats that hardly reclined and no leg room. As it was only 6am, it was too early to check into the hostel so we waited in the TV room watching movies before our room was ready. I was feeling pretty terrible […] Read more…
Our epic journey to Machu Picchu began with us getting picked up at 5.30am from our hostel in Cusco by Peru Treks, and driven to Km 82 via a breakfast stop near Ollantaytambo. This is the start of the Inca Trail and where you sort out your bags, your paperwork is checked and your passport […] Read more…
