(Read in Pirate voice) What's a Pirates favourite letter of the Alphabet? (you answer "RRRRRR") You think it would be RRRR but it be the CCCCC Okay, so that was awful. Lets continue. The Darien Gap- quite possibly the most intense, dangerous stretches of land in the world. This area is a forbidding mountainous jungle [...]
Colombia. The country all parents beg their children not to go to for fear of kidnapping, rape and pillage. As my friend Alex can testify to, when her hostel didn’t have wifi her mother in England went into a frantic state of despair and rang every yoga hostel to find her daughter, all the while [...]
'Her name was Lola' is the only line we keep on repeat while we stay in the quaint lakeside town of Copacabana, nestled into the mountains surrounding Lake Titicaca, Bolivia. Our Cliffside hotel hostel boasts breathtaking views of the city and expansive lake as well as its own Llama farm/hammock reading area on the cliff. [...]
Part two- Wetland Amazon, filled with Caimans, Sloths, Monkeys and Pink Dolphins.
Our rickety 17 seater plane lands in the matchbox town of Rurrenabaque, Bolivia, on the outskirts of the Amazon and it’s hard not to feel like you’ve stepped out of real life and onto the set of Jurassic Park. Our muddy runway is home to a lone pig and a myriad of chickens pecking about [...]
Bolivian countryside and the Salt Flats-Unforgettable scenery, llamas and roadside wees.
Lots of water, wine and a bleeding head wound
After the hectic city that is Rio, it’s been nice to escape to the chill beach towns for a week! Just four hours north of Rio is a super cool beach town called Buzios… basically it’s made up of scenic beaches and bays, turtles swimming around and a small Centro. We got in late in [...]
When we thought about touching down in the first destination of our whirlwind backpacking adventure, we imagined dumping our bags, running to the the beach to drink Caipirinhas and get our Brazillian butt tan in motion. However the reality pales (hehe) in comparison. We arrived at our little gated (this info is for you, Dad) Hostel [...]
Sheri on the Run 