by Anna Downing | Apr 30, 2011 | Features, Travel
My journey to Bolivia started in Cusco, where I got on a bus at 10pm only to find my Polish friends from Machu Picchu also on the bus! The first thing we discussed was the ways in which people steal your things on buses. We got no sleep. We arrived in Puno, on Lake...
by Anna Downing | Apr 30, 2011 | Features, Travel
Leaving Huaraz, I was sent off at the bus station by Hannes, Katherine, Jim, his wife and Lucas, then settled in or a six-hour bus ride (with the amazing Cruz Del Sur) to Lima then got straight into a cab for the airport. In the cab I thought I was going to be robbed...
by Anna Downing | Apr 27, 2011 | Features, Travel
Three hours on a bus, three hours climbing a mountain at 4,800m altitude and this is my favourite picture of the beautiful Laguna 69 near Huaraz, Peru. It was so hard to breathe on the way up and my legs turned to jelly, but we eventually made it, and the journey was...
by Anna Downing | Apr 20, 2011 | Features, Travel
I feel like I should talk a bit about the volunteer work I was given the opportunity to do, as it really made my trip and was brilliant to actually see what these NGOs do rather than just giving someone a fiver towards some charity for running 26.2 miles every April...
by Anna Downing | Apr 17, 2011 | Features, Travel
I arrived in Huaraz at 5.30am, in the pitch dark, only to be accosted by two other travellers (Dutch Sabina and Israeli Elad) asking where I was staying, so I very kindly offered them to join me at my remote mountain lodge. We arrived at the mountain lodge to hidden...
by Anna Downing | Apr 17, 2011 | Features, Travel
We got off the boat in Iquitos, Peru, at a ridiculous hour (5:30am), but somehow managed to find an almost empty hostel (and cheap – $4) right next door to what became my very regular hang out, the Karma Café. The hostel also had two kittens, so I was very happy...
by Anna Downing | Apr 12, 2011 | Features, Travel
After years of dreaming of visiting the Amazon, I’m finally here! Sadly, the Amazon attracts the twattiest of travellers – a breed of people that is pretty annoying already. They’re all here solely to try Ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic drug that you do with a...