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Captain Thaddeus Harris

I’m  a bit hungover writing this so apoligies if its a bit nonsensical…which, is probably not even a real word. actually, i think im still drunk. Uraguay was quite funny…we got a ferry over and spent the day walking around this tiny town. they, quite weirdly, claimed to have seven museums. it was like a [...]

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Downhill from 25

¡Hola! My birthday was pretty funny. We went downhill mountain biking down the ´Worlds Most Dangerous Road´. We went about 50miles at about 45mph, downhill…with blind bends and 600metre cliff drops! They advised that we had to cycle on the cliff edge as we were less likely to fall off than be hit by a [...]

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Jungle Is Massive

¡Hola Amigos! First of all a poo update: normal service has resumed. It was a great feeling. Secondly, wow. The jungle trip was bloody amazing! We flew over the mountains from La Paz and before long it was just a carpet of tree tops. After 30 mins (better than the 18hr bus alternative!), we landed [...]

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It Had To Happen Eventually

Turns out there wasn’t any strikes on the roads to Puno so we were ok getting there. We got ripped off with our hostel, paid 15quid each for two nights which is very expensive here. Puno was alright though, and we got a boat trip to some of the floating islands on Lake Titicaca. It [...]

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Maccie P

¡Hola Amigos! Just arrived back from the trek last night. It was just as hard as I expected…bloody hard! But, I was blown away with the scenery and the ruins that we saw…it was incredible. Ive no hesitation in saying it was both the hardest and most rewarding thing that Ive ever done in my [...]

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fly sleep fly sleep

Yo! Two days in and it feels like a week already! Flight to Atlanta was delayed, and we were then caught in US Customs for about an hour. Just as we thought we´d cleared customs the officer doing my passport calls ´code orange´….i was a bit bemused, asked what the problem was and she then [...]

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