Africa Okovango Delta, Botswana Our journey to one of the world's largest inland deltas takes us to Botswana's 3rd largest city, Maun. A 600km drive awaits us. 300kms South, then 300kms West. There is rarely a direct route from one point to another in Botswana. We wander the small city
Chobe National Park, Botswana Our trek from Victoria Falls to Cape Town begins in earnest today. First stop is Kasane (not the Cold Chisel variety), entry point the biggest and best national park in Botswana, Chobe National Park. Minutes out of Vic Falls and we spot out first wild elephants browsing on leaves by
Africa Zambezi River, Zimbabwe White water rafting day... Judgement day. Courts is questioning why she agreed to this. The safety speech from Hippo, our guide doesn't really help, nor does the trek down the gorge. Surely more life-threatening than the actual rafting! Into the raft we go. The 8 of us have
Africa Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe We arrive at Vic falls international airport after 25 solid hours travel. A few big stopovers didn't help. Perth to JoBerg was a fairly easy 11 hours though. Vic falls airport is about 20 kms from the town so it doesn't scare the animals away. We
North America Los Angeles, California 2 and half hours on a bus and we've made it. We walk for a bit to get the metro bus, that takes us to Downtown where we hop on the subway. Who said travelling is easy? We arrive at our destination, a huge house with heaps of
North America Tijuana, Mexico San Diego is only about 20 miles from the border of Mexico (if you haven't guessed by all the Mexican food and drink we've been having). We figure we may as well check it out. because 1- its on some TV shows as a cool holiday
North America San Diego, California A 6 am flight to Long Beach and a 2 hour bus ride to San Diego has us arrive at about 10 am. We walk to our hostel in the middle of town past a breakfast place with a massive line - which obviously means its great. We drop our
North America San Francisco, California An overnight bus ride is no fun. We arrive blurry eyed and the-opposite-of-bushy tailed at 7am. We head straight for the nearest Cafe, which happens to have the convenient add-on of a laundromat. We do a load of washing and have a huge breakfast. We are obviously getting close to
North America Las Vegas, Nevada Time to head back to the US. It's Vegas time! First stop, the airport. It's not as cold today, so we walk for a while and then get a cab. We basically hang around the airport for a few hours and read etc. Then about a
North America Montreal, Canada We arrive in Montreal around 10ish, grab a quick bite and head for the subway. We quickly realise how French Montreal is. Everything is written in French and not necessarily translated to English. Gulp. A short ride and treacherous walk through the icy streets later and we've found
North America Boston, Massachusetts On the bus we and sleep most of the 5 hour ride to Boston. This drive takes us through the state of Connecticut, where we were thinking of staying but realised that all of the major towns are actually quite small and there probably isn't much to do
North America New York, New York Concrete jungle - here we come. Just a short bus ride away. We of course sleep the whole way there. We awake to a massive tunnel ride under the Hudson. I describe the plot of the movie "Daylight" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116040/) to Courts to ease
North America Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Another early bus trip. This one is only an hour or so up the road to Philadelphia. We sleep the whole way. Its a bit too early to check in, so off to a cafe for some breakfast. We are in a university district and there are frat houses along
North America Washington, D.C Another travel day today. Back to the airport. Our first flight is delayed, so we have to go back to Charlotte again. Then another short flight to Washington, D.C. It's another shock going from the warmth of Miami to the cold of Washington. Gloves and beanie back
North America Miami, Florida Suprise, Suprise we both wake up with a cold. We've both been feeling pretty flat but trying ignore it. But alas, it's hit us and it's 5 am. Waaah. Anyway, off to the airport. First flight to Charlotte, North Carolina. Quick stop off and
North America New Orleans, Louisiana We make it to New Orleans at around 6am, bright eyed and bushy tailed... NOT. We have to wait until about 8am to check in since our host probably wouldn't appreciate us rocking up at 6am. We kill some time at a Starbucks in a shopping mall. We
North America Austin, Texas A 5 hour flight to Denver, Colorado. Then a 2 flight to Austin, Texas. Should be easy enough. As we are approaching Denver we notice the snow everywhere. We touch down and the walk up the jet bridge, it's pretty... fresh. Our flight to Austin is delayed. We
North America Puerto Vallarta, Mexico A short hour long flight from Mexico City and we've arrived in Puerto Vallarta. We get a cab to our 'house' and note 2 casinos along the way. We rock up at our airbnb accommodation. Holy hell, it's a mansion. We've booked
Mexico City, Mexico Up nice and early again and off to the airport. A short flight back to Lima then about a 5 hour flight to Mexico. Mexico City is the largest city we've been to so far and you can tell straight away. Billboards and smog are the main give
South America Cusco, Peru - Part 2 We plan on sleeping all day. But we get up and have a good breakfast supplied by our host, Monica. After that we are feeling better and decide to head into town. A short walk later and we are in the centre of town at the Plaza de Armas, the
South America The Inca Trek & Machu Picchu, Peru Up at 3:30am, picked up at 4:30am. Courtney feeling stunning and ready for action.... We drive 2 and a half hours to point 82 km. This included a hairy moment where the road had half collapsed into the river. We (including the driver) weren't sure if
South America Cusco, Peru We arrive into Cusco around 2pm. We go for a wander with our backpacks on. Not really sure where the hostel is, since we don't have a map or internet. We are a little nervous about the altitude. Cusco is at 3500 meters and can take your breath
South America Lima, Peru We get the red eye to Lima and sleep through most o the short 5 hour plane ride. We cab it to the hostel (we are now more scared of taxis than flying), note that they brew their own beer and head off for a bite and some exploring. Keeping
South America Rio De Janeiro, Brazil 22 hours on a bus later and we arrive at Rio at about 5pm. A short cab ride to Copacabana and we are some where in the vicinity of our accommodation. The cab driver is a little confused by the address, and rightly so. We are staying in a favela
South America Foz Do Iguaçu, Brazil Breakfast and a dip done, we decided to not bother with the Brazilian side of the falls. It was more expensive and basically just different views of the same falls. So we headed for the bus terminal. We are itching to get to Rio. Unfortunately we have a 6 hour
