It was difficult leaving Curahuasi and all the hospitality we encountered, but the trip had to continue. Our next big destination was the primary tourist area of Peru – Cusco and the Sacred Valley. We spent an evening in Cusco, taking in the atmosphere. It caters extremely well to international tourism, a pretty colonial town […]

Apologies for not keeping the blog up to date. We thought we would run into trouble with internet availability in Peru and Bolivia; turns out it was pretty easy over there. We’ve been camping for free almost every night in Chile and Argentina, so there hasn’t been much internet for us. Also, just too many […]

We crossed the border into Peru at La Balsa, after an exciting and tiring drive south on dirt roads. The border post was a bit different from other ones we’ve experienced so far. As we pulled up to the Ecuadorian customs control, the officer realized someone was there, so he put on a cut-off t-shirt […]