Thirteen · mattischrome

Five years after

Five years ago I set out at 3am for Heathrow airport to catch the early morning flight to Madrid. There I connected with a flight to Quito …

Picking up where I left off at Machu Picchu, we headed down into Aguas Calientes (trans. “hot waters”) by coach and by the time we got there …

In a tour full of highlights, Christmas week of 2013 was nonetheless one of the greatest weeks of my life. I may have moaned, groaned, and …

Arequipa and Cusco – the two cities that are the subject of this post – are probably the two cities in Peru that are most …

Next up was a piecemeal section of the trip that took in a varied set of sights and helped us get to know the new passengers who joined in …

From Punta Sal we took a long driving down to Huanchaco, via a stop off at the Lord of Saipan museum. The lord of Saipan is a Moche mummy …

After Cuenca we set off for the Peruvian border. One of the great advantages of having a UK passport in South America is that you …

After Baños, we set off for Cuenca, which is a town in the south of Ecuador. Being a long drive, the journey was broken up with our first …

We left Misahualli for Baños via an hour in nearby Tena to get something for the truck fixed. After that the drive to Banos was pretty short …

I’m a bit behind in my posts about the trip and this post interrupts the sequence of events somewhat, just because I’ve not felt …

By the time this goes up, I will be at least a week in to my South American tour. I flew out to Ecuador last Thursday (the 21st) and ended …