Doorway to the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona.
Barcelona’s airport is ridiculously large. Once we were off the plane we walked and walked through the terminal, only to reach the baggage claim pretty much exactly where our plane had stopped, but one floor beneath our gate. When we eventually made it outside we jumped in a cab and sped toward the city. Our [...]
The South American leg of our trip had come to an end and in all honesty, after the wrist incident we were both looking forward to arriving in Europe. That’s not to say we didn’t enjoy our time in South America – to the contrary, we loved it. In a way it was like discovering [...]
After checking out of the hospital in La Paz we had a few days spare for Nat to recuperate in the Sagarnaga Hotel, after which we were both itching to get on with our trip! I suppose we were fortunate to have set aside time after the Death Road bike tour for a stay elsewhere [...]
Simo and I left Cusco for the even higher grounds of La Paz in Bolivia, which has the highest commercial airport in the world at an altitude of 4200m above sea level. Because of this and the air being much thinner, the runway is a lengthy 6 kilometres long as the plane has to land [...]
The night before we left for the Inca Trail we met up with Willy, our Inca Trail guide, for a pre departure briefing at the hotel our tour operator Chimu Adventures had arranged for us. Willy actually worked directly for X-Treme Tourbulencia though Chimu had subcontracted our booking to his company. He explained what we [...]
Of all the flights we’d taken until now this one provided the most interesting view out the window, as halfway between Lima and Cusco the mountains seemed to rise up beneath us, some of them capped with snow. We took off and climbed in altitude as per normal, but the land beneath us kept up [...]
