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Lima & Quito: Two capitals in four days

Lima & Quito: Two capitals in four days

Two days isn't really long enough to do justice to a capital city, but that's how long we'd given ourselves in both Lima and Quito, after a fantastic opportunity to visit the Galapagos [https://www.nothere.co.uk/galapagos/] meant that we had to rearrange our itinerary slightly. Lima After

Hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu

Hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu

If our trip to South America was a book, some sort of road trip adventure with a narrative arc, then the Inca Trail would probably be the climactic chapter. That's the way we had both built it up in our heads, the defining moment which the whole trip had been

Cusco: Capital of the Incas

Cusco: Capital of the Incas

Cusco is one of the most beautiful cities that we've visited on our travels around South America. The historic centre was like an open air museum of colonial architecture, a warren of narrow, cobbled streets that all seemed to lead back to the majestic Plaza de Armas. But there was

Highs and lows on Lake Titicaca

Highs and lows on Lake Titicaca

After nearly three weeks of remarkably plain sailing, Bolivia finally caught up with us. I don't know if it was something we ate, the altitude or some combination of the two, but Polly was feeling rotten on the day we left La Paz [https://www.nothere.co.uk/la-paz-el-alto/] for