Cusco

This is a view of the main plaza from near our hostel



























The main plaza at night

Hot Springs in Baños

In baños next to one of the waterfalls, there are natural hot water springs. the best way to relax after a hard day of travelling!

Canyoning

In the town of baños where we did white water rafting we also did this thing called canyoning. its basically abseiling down waterfalls! it was absolutely amazing. one of my favourite things so far. there were 5 different waterfalls, the biggest one was 25m high.








Us at the start of the first waterfall with our guide

































































































Me













Me!

Mitad del mundo (centre of the world)

The centre of the world is in quito in ecuador. We were on our way, but as usual abz got distractied by food! Gotta love meat on a stick!













Us at the centre of the world!













In the olden days there was a tradition of taking the heads of important people or enemies and shrinking their heads. the enemy heads would be worn around the neck as a sort of trophy. this is an actual head after it has gone through the shrinking process.














At the centre of the world supposedly there are no forces pulling either side. one of the tests of this is to balance and egg on a nail. unfortunately it was so windy that we werent able to do it.

White water rafting 2

We went to a town called Baños in ecuador and had the chance to go white water rafting again. It wasnt as cheap as columbia, but the level of rapids was higher.










We went together as 2 groups. Our raft is the second raft.












Me and abz are at the front. we were the captains of our group so we were the ones setting the pace!

Sunset on the last day of the Amazon

I have no words to describe this sunset. Just hope you guys enjoy the pics








































Our driver

Amazon

This is the lodge we were staying in when we went to the amazon. We had the only 2 storey lodge in the place. We had our own private bathroom! A lot nicer than what we were execting. When we left home we thought we would be in tents and stuff. We had 3 course meals for lunch and dinner, soup, mains and dessert with fresh juices with every meal!!!






This is our group from the amazon. behind the telescope there is a girl! For some reason our guide did not want to have her face in the picture. from then on she was known as telescope head!










The first night we were there we went out for a night walk through the jungle. As expected me and abz started messing around and scaring people. This is a picture right before abz scared the life of the 6ft belgium dude in the red! i have never seen anyone so big spin around so fast!








The first tarantula we saw in the amazon, and it had to be at night! This is me with the guide and one of the other guys, jacob, from our group.











The first memebers of the tribe, this ones for you alpa!












We did a lot of walking through the jungle, and as you can see it was good that they provided us with wellington boots!
And this was not the worst part of the mud. at some points it covered the whole boot!















Our group under the biggest tree in the world!


















We went to an indigenous village and we met the shaman. he is the doctor of the village. all medicines they use are natural and he knows over 500 different medicinal plants!










Abz.













Everyday before dinner we would go out to the lagoon to watch the sunset and swim in the lagoon. Absolutely amazing!











The group we were with all did a 3 night 4 day tour of the amazon, but i convinced abz we needed an extra day. unfortunately on the last day they didnt have a motorised boat for us so we had to paddle anywhere we wanted to go. Luckily though with the paddle boat we are allowed to go places the motor boat wasnt.







On the hunt for anacondas!