A few months ago, I was heading up towards Aguas Calientes in Peru to visit Macchu Piccu. I had to take a colectivo for something like 6...

My tip: take the horse on the way up, whatever the cost. You do not have lungs like the locals. Admiring the view I, unfortunately did...

Perhaps it was more touristic than tales of cargo boat adventures and hitch-hiking with scallop fishermen, but my first time on a jet-ski...

Sunset stroll in Paracas. So excited to be back down from the altitude after weeks of not being able to breathe properly! To see sea...

Before I visited South America, I had never hitch-hiked. I had never really thought about it. If I had thought about it, my brain would...

I had spent my first few days in the jungle at an eco-friendly, uber-fancy tourist lodge several hours upriver from Iquitos and loved...

Hi there! This is essentially a photo essay to describe the almost indescribable boat trip that I took up the Amazon River. I had so much...

NO.10: This mural in Uruguay illustrates the long fought over history of its ports, alluding to its colonisation by the Spanish and...

How can I write of England when I’ve just been through my most challenging, other-worldly travel adventure yet?! When the plane touched...

(Check out my Instagram or follow on here for more snaps..) #hippie #explore #wildlife #desert #chancemeeting #outside #flower #sun #peru...

If I was to try to quantify the point I’ve reached with travel, it would be summed up in this experience. I arrived in Bolivia with no...

‘Don’t stay in Uyuni!,’ everyone told me. ‘It has no charm, there is nothing to do, people only visit to get a tour across the salt...

Walking solo into the driest desert in the world feels like a suicide mission. As our tour guide in Valparaiso pointed out, Chileans are...

From Chiloe, I travelled north towards the green vineyard covered region of central Chile. Santiago didn’t appeal much to me; cities are...

Chiloe is one of those places in which the unwitting traveller could easily get stuck. It is a quaint place, but for me, it’s charm lay...

One of the downsides of having all the freedom that I boasted about in my last post is that it can be exhausting to decide everything for...

I left Montevideo in the early morning. The flat sheen of water was pale blue beneath the smog of the city. The bay was peppered with...

From Colonia, I travelled on to the capital Montevideo. I arrived at Tres Cruces terminal as the sun was setting. The buildings were...

Sitting in a quiet ice cream parlour on the outskirts of Buenos Aires in the growing dark, with no internet access, imperfect Spanish and...

My trip into Uruguay began by running across the border to board the ferry just as it pulled up the gangplank. I had been delayed...