I'm finally here, after years of wanting to do something like this, and a couple months planning. Well, no planning really (more on that later), but purchasing the ticket and visa. The trip went pretty smoothly for the first two legs to Lima and Sao Paolo, due in part to the fact that I'd taken a triple dose of sleeping pills and slept through m...

First Impressions - Green & absolutely the most stunning city background I have ever seen Last Impressions - Both highs and Lows but all in all, I loved it. Really loved it. Highs! Hang-gliding - bloody pertifying for someone who hates jumping off heights to hear "the most important thing to do is run, even when we´ve reached the end of the ...

Back again, still way behind on the log but... here goes. I think I was waffling on about the Fevala´s the last time I was on... We were picked up by yer man, the big lad I was talking about before... it was actually a woman... and she was small with attitude. She dropped us all across town to this organised tour of the fevala whcih started off ...

I caught the bus to Santa Cruz on Saturday night - only 18 hours for a change (!) - where I arrived at about noon on Sunday. I found a great hostel, called... Jodanga I think, run by a Bolivian guy and his Australian girlfriend, and stayed there for 2 nights. We had a braai / barbeque on Sunday night which was divine and I spent Monday finding o...