If I get a ticket from place A to place B from a bus station, I expect the entirety of that journey to be made by bus. So when I bought a bus ticket in Peru from Puno to Cusco, I was expecting to heave my rucksack onto a bus, then curl up in my…
I spent a month backpacking from Peru to Argentina, and for a brief time I was stuck in the middle of nowhere in Bolivia. Story time! Bolivia generally isn’t known for its elegant, efficient highways and state of the art road traffic management systems. If you take a second out of your day to picture…
Back in 2009 volunteered with a conservation company in Peru. Or to put it another way, I spent three months living with cockroaches in the Amazon Rainforest. That’s where I lived for three months. No doors, no windows, no electricity, no phone lines, no hot water, no McDonald’s just round the corner. The photo shows…
I bet you take roads for granted. You use them in your car, on your bike, you might even skip down the middle of them at 4 a.m. after a particularly frivolous night out. You don’t think anything of them unless there are potholes and roadworks and traffic lights that are conspiring against you. You…
There are a lot of all you can eat restaurants in Buenos Aires, Argentina, known in Spanish as tenedor libre (“free fork”). And I’m not talking about the same all you can eat restaurants that you find in America, with extra-sized bottles of ketchup on the table and a soda cup big enough to drown…
I once spent an entire day waiting for a jungle bus. Most of the day was spent sitting in an abandoned petrol station in a small town called Salvaccion, in the Manu National Park, in Peru, in the Amazon Rainforest. Now that I’ve got your attention, here’s a picture of a lorry in a river:…
In 2009, I spent three months in the Amazon Rainforest in the Manu National Park in Peru. At the end of the three months volunteering, it was a 10-hour journey back to Cusco, the closest major city. The transition from leaving the jungle to rejoining civilized society is a stranger sensation than when you find…