Acemuzzy’s Positronic Blog

Day 22 (Monday 21 July) - Arequipa to Santiago
We were glad we’d booked the earlier flight, as we got bored pretty quickly in Arequipa.  It was a nice enough place, with great views of the nearby volcanoes, but it was too hot and we just weren’t loving it.
Eventually it was time for our flight, so we headed [...]

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Day 11 (Thursday 10 July) - Sacred Valley
Up pretty early to head to the Sacerd Valley, our one-day stop en-route to the start of the Inca trail.
We got a public bus from Cuzco, which was pretty crowded - to the extent that we felt we were knicking the locals seats which was a bit unforunate.  We had [...]

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Day 10 (Wednesday 9 July) - Lima to Cuzco
Just so we’re clear on what I mean by an early start, we had to be up at 4am for our flight to Cuzco.  A McDonald’s breakfast did little to settle my stomach, but at least the airport was marginally more modern than the ones before.
We met our Inca [...]

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Day 9 (Tuesday 8 July) - Quito to Lima
Guess what, another early start!  This was comically hampered by the fact my alarm clock was still on Galapagos time, so instead of waking up at 4.30 for our 5.00 cab, we woke up at at 5.05 when reception rang to say the cab was waiting!  Hasty packing was [...]

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Day 5 (Friday 4 July) - Galapagos, Isabela Island
The next day, our breakfast at the Wooden House was greeted by the confusing question ‘who’s good at horse riding’?  Nobody put there hands up, but our tour guide, Mariano, led us on underterred to the slopes of Isabela’s Sierra Negra, rumoured to be the world’s second largest volcanic crater.  [...]

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Day 4 (Thursday 3 July) - Quito to Galapagos
Our flight was fairly early, via Guayaquil.  Interestingly, this is actually Ecuador’s largest city despite nobody ever having heard of it!  We then stayed on the plane and landed in heavy sunshine in the galapagos!  Hurrah!
We knew we were meant to be meeting the ´survivors´of the boat [...]

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Day 3 (Quito)
Up reasonably early again and into the old town for breakfast (no more $5 rip-off at the hotel for us!).  I had my first genuine guanabana juice which was highly exciting.
We then wondered round the old town some more.  We thought we´d already seen all of it about five times, but managed to [...]

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Right, time for my first South American blog!
For anyone who doesn´t know, my girlfriend and I are travelling around South America for four weeks.  We left the UK early on Sunday morning (29th June) and fly back on Friday 25th July.  Our rough itinerary is Ecuador - Peru - Bolivia - Chile.
Day 0 (Sunday 29th June)
Up [...]

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