We departed our hotel in Urumbumba for a 35 minute drive to the start of our trek to the Indian Community village of Misminay situated at 3700 mtts. Arriving at our start point at 9.30am and before heading out on the trail we were handed our snack pack to keep up our energy levels. It is was an easy undulating [….]

1. Sign of Chichibumba 2. Working in the fields 3-4 Bee Harvesting 5-6 Chocolate Beans and finished product 7-8 Making Pottery and Painting of Pottery

I have been having such a great time and so busy that I have not had time to catch up with the blog until now, so I will now go back to last Tuesday and fill you in on what we have been up to. Last Tuesday we departed Puno for Cuzco on an exciting bus journey through the Peruvian [….]

Peru has an abundance of fresh food and Peruvians eat their traditional dishes on an every day basis. The sea (Pacific Ocean) and the rivers coming down to the coast provide a variety of fish and shell fish. The plentiful supply of water from the Andes – despite the arid and dry terrain allows for production of a wide variety [….]

Yesterday we drove from Chivay to Puno it took around 6 hours with several stops along the way, and most of those stops were for the happy room. Lunch was a picnic by Lake Umayo at 4100mtrs wow what an amazing picturesque place to enjoy lunch. Another 2 hours and we arrived at our hotel in Puno a lakeside city [….]

Well here we are on our way to Canyon del Colca which is the most popular excursion from Arequipa, the paved road winds and climbs its way northeast past the back of El Mistie and Chanchani Mountains to the National Park which covers 360,000 hectares with an average altitude of 3000 metres. We were fortunate to see vicunas, alpacas and [….]

Our flight from Sydney to Buenos Aires too a gruelling 19 hours. I have taken this journey many times in the past so I was not looking at all forward to the flight. Amazingly time passed very quickly maybe it was due the the interesting 11 people I was escorting on a 24 day adventure holiday to Sth America. We [….]

Hi EveryoneOn the 17th April I returned home from another fabulous trip to Nepal, this time it was quite different and exciting as I was joined by my 16 year old great niece Sara. It was wonderful to have a family member the first apart from Alan to share my 18 years of passion for Nepal and having Sara join [….]

We have just spent the most amazing stay in the village of Majhuwja. Our rustic accomodation was extremely comfortable. Before we arrived our host who not only carried on his back (all uphill) for the past 3 hours, 4 large whiteboards, managed to lug 4 beds up two flights of very narrow stairs to to our room. I must add [….]

A GROUP OF SCHOOL TEACHERS VISIT A REMOTE VILLAGE SCHOOL IN NEPALWe arrived into Kathmandu tired but extremely excited as it was our first visit to this tiny country packed with 24 million people. Leaving our visit to the capital Kathmandu to the end of our tour we headed to Pokhara to start a 5 day trek into the Annapurna [….]