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Buenos Aires, Argentina

Well looks like we had to give Buenos Aires (BA) another chance! and after giving it such a bad wrap as our first destination in South America, it seems like fate that we unexpectantly ended up with an extra 2 days here.
This is all thanks to the incompentencies of that fab South American Airline - Aerolineas Argentinas. Basically we arrived in BA to find that our flight had been delayed for 2 days! This is because they do not have enough planes to put on if a flight gets cancelled, and it takes them a month to make it up!! (awww bless!).
So, as it has turned out, we have ended up having a (near) all expenses paid weekend break in BA, staying at a 4 star hotel in the city centre, with all meals included!!
Basically this blog is to say a big EAT OUR WORDS to our first blog on poor BA, cause actually this city is kinda pretty cool - well thats if you stay and go to the right kind of places - like we did this time (after being advised by fellow travellers over the past 6 weeks). I have to say one of its biggest attractions is shopping! and so cheap! So after 6 weeks of sight seeing, we decided to give ourselves a well earned break and just do a little shopping for the last 2 days - i mean how can one say no to 5 pound bikinis - it would be criminal!!
Also, after bagging the food in BA, i also have to say that we found restaurant, cafe and bar heaven, and have managed to have two very nice lunches out. Anyone coming to BA, stick to Ricoletta and Palermo (Soho) and you´ll be stoked, like we were!
Ok, thats it from us from South America, in 2 hours we are off to go catch our flight to Auckland (fingers double crossed they let us have a seat!!).
Love,
Fee and Guy
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Florianopolis, Brazil

They told us not to come but did we listen? no! They told us there would be thunder and rain and that we should go elsewhere, but no we did not listen, and did it pay off? Oh yes!! this would finally be the pré-wedding honeymoon Fee would dream about! A pousada set in its own grounds with themed rooms and a swimming pool to match (obviously not themed! haha), all to ourselves! I realised I was in heaven when i switched on the tv in our room (thats heaven in itself of course!) but what it was showing! can you guess? if you know how pathetic i am you probably can, .....wait for it..... Chelsea v Liverpool! with beers in the fridge and Fee happily resting next to me, this was honeymoon heaven. Only one problem, Liverpool failed to score and win a game that was theirs for the taking! As Fee says though, a draw is better than to lose (no its not!! haha).

Anyway, Florianopolis or Santa Catarina (the isle) is beautiful. It is a holiday destination for Brazilians getting away from the hustle and bustle of Sao Paulo and Rio alike. There are many beaches dotted all over and good surf to be had from the Southern swells of the Atlantic Ocean (tech speak- im learning!! thanks Pinkney!) and Fee and I were able to go surfing for the couple of days we were there. We were also able to fit in a number of very strong Caipirinas along the way too on the beach as there was a mobile bar rolling up and down the shore all day, god they were strong!! (see pics!!).

Our trip was further enhanced by the arrival of our good friend Mr Mark Pinkney (and his very good mate Jonno Friend) who by chance, emailed us to say he would be on the island and would we be anywhere near?? As we were, we hooked up and had a great time, mostly drinking and smoking shisha pipes! haha!

So as you can probably tell, we have had a truely relaxing time in the 30 degree heat swimming, drinking and surfing in the crystal blue waters watching all the Brazilian bums go by. Oh why do they wedgie their bikinis up their bottys?? its disgraceful! haha!!

Not wanting to leave, but we have to now get our sunburnt noses off to BA to set sail to the New World.....

xx
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Puerto Iguazu, Argentina

So after leaving Rio exhausted (but stoked!!), we set ourselves up for even more travel punishment by jumping on a bus for 25 hours in order to view the famous Iguazu Falls!! 25 hours later of semi sleep we stepped off the bus, feeling even more exhausted than before, and then proceeding to sleep for another 14 hours!! Very strange, but was great to wake up completely refreshed and ready for a big day of ewwwwing and ahhhhing at the famous Iguacu Falls. I´ll let the photos do the talking, but basically Iguazu Falls are just massive, and very awe inspiring.(The story goes that many years ago a young Guaraniran away with a beautiful maiden who was about to be sacrificed in honor of a serpent who lived in the depths of the River Iguazu. When she discovered this insult, the serpent let her rage flow over her back, and, twisting it, split the course of the river, trapping the young lovers and thus creating the waterfalls of Iguazu.Supposedly the Guaraniran warrior was turned into a tree which now overlooks the maiden who is now a rock!We reckon its more geological than that but its a great story!)
They are shared by Argentina, Brazil and Uruaguay. We stayed over two nights on the Argentinian side (Puerte Iguacu), which is definitely the best place to stay, and also to view the falls (including a speed boat ride through the rapids and under the falls - getting very very wet in the process). We then spent our last day racing around to the Brazilian side, and doing the tour from there, before then jumping on another 15hour bus down to the beautiful area of Florianpolis for some final days of sun and surf - see next blog!!!
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rio de Janeiro! what a place! and what a place to spend Carnival, especially with our great friends Kev, Sumi and Mike (Kev and Sumi are our old upstairs neighbours from our flat in London).

This had to be one of the highlights of our entire trip. Not only was it Carnival, but a beautiful and magical city.

Things did not start off so great though, when we arrived after travelling for 24hours from Cusco-Lima-Sao Paulo-Rio), we were surprised to find that our favelha hostel accomodation was not quite as boutique has we had hoped for. Dont get me wrong, it wasnt dangerous, the favelha was semi cleaned up, (for those not in the know, the favelhas are basically the shanty towns of Rio, usually ruled by Baron drug lords, and very dangerous places for tourists to venture!!!) it was the fact that the family running the hostel, seemed to have forgotten they were actually running one anymore, and the first morning we woke to screaming mum, kids, along with gangster rap, banging, stomping, and stray dogs growling at us.... forgot to mention, the night before we had to run home through darkened alleys to reach the ´hostel´. Anyway, so first night over, we decided we should take our lives in our own hands, and make a speedy exit - quick! Thankfully Kev and Sumi saved the day by arranging for a mattress to be put in their humungous room at their beautiful colonial hostel, with swimming pool! Things looked up big time from this point onwards.

So, what to say about carnival - Several Blocõs were on every day in the streets around Rio (these were local samba carnivals, that could mean a promotion in to the formal carnival if chosen). We went to an awesome one in Santa Theresa, where we chanted a 15 line song for about 6 hours, and tried to dance samba behind a small float whilst swigging beers and caipirinhas along the way. We ended up out partying to 4am every morning, waking up by 12pm to start over again.

We scalped tickets for the famous Sambadrome on the third night (this is the second night of the professional samba schools). Oh my god, you have never seen floats, costumes and dancers like this... and it went on from 9pm until 6am. After watching this for 6 hours, we were floated out, and just couldn´t believe that there was even more to come after we left.
Also, managed to squeeze in the local football derby between Botafogo v. Vasco Da Gama at the famous Maracena stadium which ended up being a cracker of a game with Botafogo narrowly winning 3-2 with a last minute penalty, and 2 sendings off to add. The chanting and banners and enthusiasm of the supporters was insane - puts the english to shame (besides the Kop of course!!).

We were so sad to say goodbye to kev, sumi and mike on the last night, and it was so great to get a chance to meet up with kev and sumi on their around the world tour.

Oh yeah, forgot to say Ipanema beach rocks too, it was totally safe, except for the mad crashing waves! We were so overwarned about the dangers of Rio, and did not witness a thing! luck maybe, but as you will see we´ve attached no photos, as we left everything at the hostel before going out (Guy being anal safety man that he is - thanks Vaughan). Hopefully will get photos to post from the others in the near future.

ok, off to Iguazu falls now - 24 hour bus ride here we come!!

Guy and Fee xx
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Cusco, Peru

Last night we arrived back from our 4 day, 3 night Inka Trail trek - tired and dirty but so stoked! The trek, landscape, archaelogical sites, food and guides far exceeded our expectations. Especially as the night before leaving we were told that our trekking group was to be ourselves plus only one other person - talk about a third wheel! However, when the van turned up to pick us up at 6am the first morning, we were quite pleased to hear the third person (an elusive Miss Patel) had not turned up - this meant the trek was our own private honeymoon expedition, with just our Guide (Bruno - who turned out to be an absolute diamond - so knowledgeable and passionate about the subject of the Andean and Inka people), our cook (Willy - who turned out to be the Gordon Ramsay of Peru - the food was the best we have eaten during our travels, and this, all cooked on the side of a mountain), as well as two porters (Gaudito & Fortunato - these legendary men carried 20+kg each of neccessities for the trek).
I have to say a big ups to anyone who has done this trek, because it is actually pretty hard - made even more so by the fact we carried all of our own gear (many people hire extra porters to carry their gear, and just hike with day packs). Guy can proudly say, he hiked the whole thing with an 11kg pack!! The hardest day was the second, which included 5 hours walking solidly up a steep mountainside, followed by 2 hours of knee jarring steep down hill. The hardest thing though is that you are walking up and down massive stone steps - think stair master from hell (much of the trail is actually the original Inca laid steps - and these people were absolutely mad about where they laid this trail!).
Anyway, the last day of the trek entailed waking up at 4am - being fed our usual breakfast of hot pancakes, hot soya milk and granola (!!!), followed by a brisk walk to arrive at Machu Piccu by around 8am. Although we arrived there to cloud cover, within the hour it had cleared, and we had a good few hours to be guided around all the sites of this amazing place. As it was such a sunny day, our guide suggested we finish off the visit with a hike up the adjacent Waynapicchu mountain, and then meet him down the bottom of the valley in the township of Aquas Calientes for a final lunch before catching our train back to Cusco. Little did we know, but this wasnt the normal agenda for most exhausted trekkers! If anyone reading this hiked Waynapicchu you will understand what i mean when i say a STEEP walk to the top... i mean it was like walking up a slippery rock face ladder for 45mins... then holding on for dear life to get down again. Anyway, the views were amazing, and unbeliveably the mad Incas had actually built more terraces and buildings onto this rock face!! So, after making it down again with shaking legs, we decided there was no way we were going to catch the bus down to Aquas Calientes, and that we would do the a final trek down. Unfortunately this entailed an hour more of steep stone steps, which guy and I decided the only way to do now was to run... so eventually with massive smiles on our faces we made it in to Aquas Calientes to enjoy a deserved ice cold beer!!
So now we are back in Cusco, enjoying a chilled out day and night (well hopefully not too chilled tonight - Cusco is party central - and you'll be please to know Missy and Bescs that we have already been a couple of times to Mama Africas!!).
Ok, signing off for now - we leave for Rio tomorrow - Carnival here we come!! - though we dont know if we're scared or excited - as it's going to be madness......
xx
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Puno, Peru

We survived!!

I suppose you got a little worried ( Tetty & Jenny!) wondering whether you were gonna read another blog from us considering we were mountain biking the so called "Road of Death" last week! Well we survived and here it is!
The "Road of Death" as its so called, wasnt bad at all, except for the waterfalls hitting the road ( the width of a car ), landslides, rain, very poor visibilty and oh yeah one car coming the other way! (they have built a new road now so cars and trucks hardly use it) The scenery was amazing. You start at aroud 4000m and descend to around 1500m a.s.l. so you can imagine the change in climate and obviously the scenery. At the top its snowing and by the time you reach the bottom ( it took us 6 hrs!) its sunny and lush. Anyway I recommend everyone who passes this way to do it, its fab and you get a free tshirt too!! haha...

I suppose I should give La Paz a mention. We stayed in a hostal called the Aventure Brew Hostal, which had its own microbrewery on site. Pretty cool, considering you got a free beer every night you stayed. Not cool, the fact that we both suffered terribly with stomach aches and ended blowing like trumpets every night!! haha... What can I say about La Paz, except that its very strange. Besides dealing with the altitude, you have to deal with car horns, gypsies, guys shouting destinations out of an abundance of different types of taxis constantly and people trying to sell you shit... well I actually loved the shit selling! I realised La Paz´s vocation and that was shopping! We shopped and shopped till we dropped!!ok maybe im exaggerating but we did pretty well...So that was it really for La Paz. Oh I might as well mention that I met my first scouser on our travels!! it was in the english pub, Ollivers Travels! haha his name was Jimmy lar!! classic!!

So anyway, following on from the mountain biking expedition, we ended up in a place called Coroico where we stayed for 2 nights. Our hostal, Sol Y Luna was set in the hills of the Bolivian jungle.Although i got bitten over 30 times, we were lucky enough to have a romantic natural hot tub in the grounds of the hostal which was amazing..Just to give you an idea of the place,there were 2 swimming pools,chillout areas and all the cabins were dotted about the mountain side and each had their own view of the valley etc, with hammocks and outside fireplaces..unfortunately for me i failed as a man as I tried to ignite the fire several times but to no avail. I blame not having newspaper,kindling,firelighters & coal! sorry Dad!!

Now we are in Puno, a cool Peruvian town on the edge of Lake Titicaca ( the highest largest lake in the world). We are staying with a wonderful host named Jenny ( not as wonderful as Jennymum of course!) who is treating us very well. We are sad that we are only staying one night.
Today we went to an amazing place called the Floating Islands inhabited by the tribe Los Oros. These islands are about 20mins from the mainland and are constructed by using reeds and rope which help them float. Its kinda weird as you sail on the boat through a load of reed bushes and all of a sudden you´re in the middle of a floating city. Check out the pics to see what i mean.Although its very tourist driven, (every island you hop onto, they bring out the stalls!) the people are very friendly and welcoming and even the lunch was great! Lake Titicaca is famous for its trout, so Fee and I had trout cerviche and pan fried trout respectively, yum!!!! The highlight of the journey for me though was that i got to hold a condor, well it pèrched on me. What an amazing bird of prey although the only preying i think it was allowed to do was with its eyes. Fee wasnt too impressed with the fact it was tied to the post!!

So, here we are, about to have dinner and get an early night coz we have to catch the Inka Express tomorrow to the wonderful town of Cusco, stopping off at various landmarks on the way, i think its an old fogey tour but hey we´re getting old......

n.b. my phone contract has now terminated so please text fee if need be on 07877031669.
x
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La Paz, Bolivia

Hola from the beautiful land of Bolivia!

We are currently residing at roughly 3700m in la Paz, the capital of Bolivia, and are trying to stay awake after a harrowing 12 hr bus ride from Uyuni. You would not believe the roads out here, it was like we were experiencing the worst plane turbulence ever but on the road! We were bumping and grinding for the entire bus ride over unpaved dusty tracks driving across the desert, occassionly needing help to cross swollen rivers! Thank g-d for sleeping tablets!

The journey had to be done because we ended our 3 day 4x4 jeep tour of the mountains in Uyuni, Bolivia. We had started the tour from San Pedro, Chile and had climbed over 3000m to a maximum of 5000m at the point we visited the geysers. Wow, we could not belive our eyes when we had full access to the geysers, hot clay bubbling right below our feet, it was amazing. The smell wasnt though, hence i becoming sick with altitude sickness. Once back down at our accomodtion for the night at the edge of the red lagoon, my wonderful fiancee mad me some coca leaf tea and brought me back round! what a star!..... (they use coca leaves here to combat altitude sickness - and it really works!).

It´s fee here now..... Our accomodation for the first night consisted of staying with a small bolivian family/village(?) in dorm rooms within some small concrete buildings, in the middle of nowhere! Quite wierd, especially having to bunk up all cosy like with our new found tour buddies.

Overall the tour consisted of seeing every kind of colour lagoon you can think of, each full of pink flamingos, vicunas (wild skinny llamas), and occassionally a flock of Llamas with pretty pink ribbons in their ears (very cute!). Oh yeah, and lots of crazy desert rock formations, beautiful snow capped volcanoes, and driving like mad across the desert driven by a slightly mad bolivian driver (guides are not included! it was every man for himself!)

The highlight of the trip was on the third day visiting the salt plain just outside of Uyuini. This is the largest of its kind in the world. Unfortunatly by day 3 i had succumbed to sickness (again), and woke up vomitting at 6.30 in the morning (food poisoning i believe this time - can even be from raw veges washed in the water). So after a brief moment of "i can´t move", i pulled myself together, medicated myself and we headed off.

As you can see by the photos, the coolest things about the salt flats are the crazy photos you can take (i mean who cares about the amazing geology and all that!!)! The expanse of the salt means you lose all concept of horizon!

anyway, enough blabbing on, there is so much to tell, but we dont want to bore you too much!

so now, we have 3 nights in La Paz staying at a hostel which has its only microbrewed beer - free to residents supposedly. Also, we have decided we are going to do the ´Road of Death bike ride!! Please dont worry mothers, cause it is all sweet now, as it closed to cars and trucks.

Scotty - guy thought your email was great, live forever Scooter!
Galley - i have been more sick than guy, so he says leave him alone!! (but i know what you mean!!)

guy and fee
xx
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San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

Hey it´s fee here - guy said i was to stop beng lazy and have a go at writing the blog, so here goes!

We are currently in San Pedro, Chile, which is basically the Queenstown of Chile, and is the place we are leaving for our 2night, 3day tour across salt flats and all sorts of crazy landscape, to end up in Bolivia.

To update you on our recent adventures - after leaving the amazing Elqui valley we headed for the resort town of Bahia Inglesa (English Bay), where the landscape abruptly changed and we suddenly hit the desert. We arrived off the bus late that night, and decided to spend the night in the adjacent town of Caldera - the lonely planet seemed to think it was ok. Unfortunately the LP was very wrong...!! and the place was a decrepid old fishing village, and the accomodation enough to cry at - well i just about did, after being shown rooms worse than you could imagine for 20 US dollars. Being the more sophisticated traveller now, i demanded guy take me to most expensive hotel in town - which was óverpriced and average, trying to be something it really wasnt - upmarket! However the town accomodation made up for it with it´s amazing seafood platters (see photo!).

We eventually found our way to the Bahia Inglesa resort the next morning (early!), and found the most amazing camp site, staying in A frame cabins a stones throw from the beach. We spent the next few days swimming, sunbathing (all the hard things about travelling) and of course being adopted by a stray pack of dogs that lived at the campsite. For some reason (we swear its because they sensed we´re animal lovers!), this pack of 4 dogs did not leave our sides the whole time we were residing at the campsite. They sat outside our cabin at night at the door and barked at passers by, they followed us to the toilet, shower and dishwashing, they even followed us to the beach on the last day and attempted to huddle under our umbrella - which we were not having. The worst of it was when i went for a swim on the crowded beach, and they ALL followed me in to the water, then around on to the rocks to keep as close as poss! It was so embarassing, and I had to make a quick exit from the water to stop people thinking i was some weird dog lady!

So we moved on after two days of beach bliss, only to enter the next 2 days of hell!! We caught an overnight bus to San Pedro - a kid puked down guys seat and on the last leg of the bus ride i developed a stomach bug (yes - i did the big travel no no and drunk the water at the campsite!! the owner said it was safe, but not safe enough for my delicate stomach) this was not helped by the toilets being closed for the last hour of the bus journy. So we got to the hostel in San Pedro early the next morning, thank god with no little accidents, whereby Guy discovered his ankles had swollen up to something resembling melons! Thus the day was spent with me in the toilets and feeling drained, and Guy with his feet elevated in our room. The day even included a quick stop at the local hospital to make sure his ankles werent´delayed DVT symptoms... no - just a bad case of sunburn - yes, we broke golden travel rule number two - wear ample sunblock whilst sunning yourself at foreign beach resorts!

So it´s day 2 in San Pedro and we´ve had a 12 hour sleep - Guys feet have gone down, and my stomach is back to normal, so it´s all good! We are off to book our tour, and a few other side adventures to keep us busy until we depart on monday!

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Vicuna, Chile

wow wow wow.....how things have changed. We left Serena for a town called Vicuna deep in the valley of Elqui where everything blossoms, from the food and wine to the people and the scenery. The past couple of days have been the (pre-)honeymoon we dreamt about! We knew we had hit gold as soon as we were dropped off at our hostel by the collectivo taxi ( a collectivo is a taxi share where the driver wont leave for the destination until the cab is full. We didnt realise this until we were sat in the back with an old dear in the front waiting for the driver to shove someone else in the back with Fee & I. I thought sod this and paid the guy for the extra person ($3!!) I wasnt going to be subjected to that with my bad back! (yes mum, I got a bad back, but hey Im stretching every day!))
So anyway, the hostel´s owned by a lovely german lady named Rita (Meter Maid!) who was fantastic,her brekkie was amazing, typical euro steez with cooked meats and La Vache Qui Rit cheese!! She also had a small pool! Dan & Maree, you guys have to stay here...
This place is so cool, me and Fee had our dinner in the square with a bottle of wine although i dont think its wise to be drinking in public. Anyway, as we chowing down, these kids starting breakdancing on the podium in the middle of the square, they were amazing, I was going to get up and do my thing but I thought hey, i cant show them up in their own town and obviously, I had a bad back!!
Day trips are awesome here, yesterday we went to the Valle De Elqui where we visited the only organic vineyard in the valley and ended up buying the most beautiful Muscat. We also had a tour of a Pisco distillery which lasted for about 8 mins and was conducted in spanish by a 12 yr old chilean girl! We also hired bikes and rode along the dusty roads of the valley and bumped into a cowboy! ( as you do!)
But, the best thing by far we did was last night. We went up to the Mamalluca Observatory and got an astronomy tour. WOW! we actually got to see nebulas, clusters, supernovas, Mars and even Saturn and its ring!! can you believe it, actually seeing Saturn´s ring with the naked eye!

Right I think thats enough gloating for now, hope you are all well and having a fun new year wherever you are. Please write and let us know what you are all up to!
Jules, thanks for your email, great to hear from you and cant wait to see you guys in March!
Walker, Fee thanks you for your birthday wishes, and hey all LFC fans, how crap are we???? 1-1 Wigan & Luton, for fcuks sake!! come on you reds!

We´re off to Bahia Ingles (English Beach!) now for some beach loving!!

You´ll never walk alone......


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La Serena, Chile

We are now resting in the sunny beach town that is La Serena. The fact that it is overcast & dull doesnt matter to us chipper kids, the internet place rocks!

Had an 8 hr bus ride from Santiago ( sad to leave such an awesome city) which wasnt too bad except for my headphones breaking! can you believe it Tetty??!! So my iPod jack breaks before we leave, the iPod surgery in London wipes all my memory and now this, back to reading me thinks!
Just to let you know how our spanish is getting on, when we booked the bus, they only had seperate seats. So when it came to us trying to explain that we wanted to swap seats with someone, the whole bus was trying to help to put us together although Fee wasnt helping much telling evryone I was her father every 5 seconds, when she was actually trying to tell them I was her fiancee!!! oh the joys of language, you should have seen their faces!

Oh well.....we´re off to hire bikes and eat some more empanadas!...
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