Day 299: The only gringos in town
Overland miles: 14045 Bus hours: 428.5 Empanadar: 96 As our last weeks approached rapidly, we realised we needed to get away from llama jumper wearing gringos, test our true travelling mettle […]
Category Archives: Trains
Day 275: Machu Picchu
Overland miles: 13564 Bus hours: 401 Empanadar: 85 Machu Picchu had been on our list of travelling must dos for some time. Well, more specifically, my list. Jovian, for once, […]
Day 247: Atacama to Uyuni, Part Three
Overland miles: 12085 Bus hours: 348.5 Empanadar 73 The final day of our trip dawned and it was all about the main event, those mystical miles of salt flats. We […]
Day 142: Chocolate and cheese for breakfast
Overland miles: 6352 Bus hours: 194.45 Empanadar: 12 With Jovian’s latest culinary quest completed, we made tracks for Colombia’s capital, with a brief stop over along the way in Villa […]
Day 15: The Copper Canyon (Barranca del Cobre)
Overland miles: 1209 Tacocount: 39 Days without Tea: 5 The alarm clock pierced the air with its shrill bleeping at 3.45am this morning, precisely three and a half hours after […]
Day 14: Boat, chicken bus and train
Overland miles: 1202 Tacocount: 37 Days without tea: 4 When we talked about this trip we agreed we wanted to experience as many different kinds of overland transport as we […]
Prawns for Breakfast 