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Category: South America

Inca Trail to machu picchu

How to choose a company for the Inca Trail

Posted in Peru, South America
Carrie

A once in a lifetime trip, walking the original Inca pathways to the 550 year old citadel of Machu Picchu. There are hundreds of companies offering Inca Trail treks and…

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Seth’s Sausages of South America

Posted in Central America, Food, South America
Seth

Since it’s been exactly a year that we were stood on the roadside at a Colombian-style trucker stop, boasting an elderly man adorned in a hat with a sausage attached…

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Moai statues at ahu tongariki on Easter Island

How to travel to Easter Island on a budget

Posted in Chile, South America
Carrie

The mysterious Easter Island lies 3,600 km off the coast of Chile. Covered in hundreds of Moai statues, it still holds the secrets of a lost civilisation. Many people dream of…

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Top 5 Travel Scams in Latin America

Posted in Central America, South America, Travel Tips
Carrie

We wrote before about our top 10 travel scams in South-East Asia and although many of them weren’t particularly dangerous, they were all quite annoying and had the potential to…

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Mexico City: Street Food, Lucha Libre and Teotihuacan

Posted in Mexico, South America
Carrie

What better way to finish off five months in Latin America than a few days in Mexico City. We had three things to tick off the list – sampling the…

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Popocatepetl and the Great Pyramid of Cholula

Posted in Mexico, South America
Carrie

Puebla was just a quick two night stop on our way to Mexico City, although we had a lovely little hostel in the centre of the city and wished we…

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Oaxaca – The Culinary Capital of Mexico

Posted in Mexico, South America
Carrie

The journey from San Cristobal to Oaxaca is an 11 hour overnight bus. With all the teacher protests that had been going on and recent bus hijackings we were a…

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San Cristobal de las Casas and Shamanic Rituals

Posted in Mexico, South America
Carrie

San Cristobal de las Casas is a small colonial town up in the mountains of the Chiapas region of Mexico. It sits at an altitude of 2200 metres so can…

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Valladolid and Chichen Itza

Posted in Mexico, South America
Carrie

Valladolid is a pretty little colonial town in Mexico’s Yucatan region. It doesn’t see that many tourists but is a great base to visit Chichen Itza which is only 45…

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Playa Del Carmen and Mexico’s Best Chicken Shop

Posted in Mexico, South America
Carrie

Playa Del Carmen is just an hour down the coast from Cancun and is a much more compact town. All of the beaches are public and there is a small…

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Cancun and a First Taste of Mexico

Posted in Mexico, South America
Carrie

You may have noticed we haven’t posted as much about food on this trip. Sadly, apart from Ceviche, the cuisine in South America just didn’t live up to the standards…

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Costa Rica – Puerto Viejo

Posted in Costa Rica, South America
Carrie

Puerto Viejo is a small town on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast. It’s known for its laid- back vibe and great food. It’s also very expensive for a backpacker budget so…

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Pouring Down in Panama

Posted in Panama, South America
Carrie

We’d arrived in Central America and our first stop was Panama City. They use the US dollar as currency and the reality of this hit us straight away. Thanks to…

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Colombia to Panama With Sailing Koala

Posted in Colombia, Panama, South America
Carrie

Travelling North from Colombia the next place to visit is Panama, but the two countries are separated by what is known as the Darien Gap. This is an area of…

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