Brendon is back HOME in Oz and has been since November.. rockin around Bellthorpe, Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast, avoiding work as much as possible !

I am now in my 3rd big city of Argentina, Mendoza... the wine country! It feels like a somewhat cheaper tour of Europe instead of South America ( Read more... )

Well hellooooooo from Argentina ( Read more... )

Well the last news I was still in Peru, about to visit the floating islands on Lake Titicaca which was quite nice, incredibly incredibly touristy and kind of disturbing.. but I'm sure the 40 tour-boats full of people got some great photos ( Read more... )

Wooot !! We finally did it.. after all the turmoil and indecisiveness, we got our butts up to ol' Picchu and had a fannnntassssssstic time :) We got into th line for Waynapicchu nice and early (after a slightly stressful start to the morning buying tickets and getting the bus) and I managed to be equal 1st up to the top to enjoy a few minutes of ( Read more... )

So I found myself an hour into the bus trip from Huaraz to Lima, stomach aching after feeling good all day.. shouldnt have had that 6 solle chinese... 8 hour bus trip from hell ( Read more... )

So I returned to our hostel Albergue Churup to find Paul and Gaby in cahoots with two new travellers (Lisa (Canada) & Marika (Holland)), planning a new trek in a couple of days, and that I absolutely must come along.. still feeling pretty under the weather with a cold I was a little hesitant but still went to find out what it was all about. With ( Read more... )

Well definitely time for an update.. its been a pretty hectic week or so, lots of walking and running around ( Read more... )

Woohoo hey again, another quickie for some more photos... Ventured up to Laguna Churup yesterday (+4500m) with a cool aussie guy Caley (?).. very nice trek compared to Laguna 69.. the collectivo taxe left an hour late, but luckily the hike was a lot quicker than expected.. 1 hr from Llupa to Pitek, then ony 1.5 up to the laguna instead of the ( Read more... )

So yesterday was our first little foray into hiking around Huaraz.. a nice n easy 3hr trek up to the beautiful Laguna 69 and 2 hours back.. so the day started with our taxi picking up a group down the road instead of us, which meant a delayed departure for the 2 hour ride up to the park entrance.. a very long, windy and bumpy road through a very ( Read more... )