{"id":972,"date":"2012-08-14T04:30:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T04:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/?p=972"},"modified":"2012-08-14T04:37:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T04:37:59","slug":"travelling-in-south-america-the-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/2012\/08\/travelling-in-south-america-the-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelling in South America \u2013 The Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Countries visited: four (Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia)<\/li>\n<li>Visa stamps collected: sixteen (including cheeky unofficial ones from the Inca trail, Macchu Picchu, Galapagos Islands and Easter Island). Lucy might run out of passport space before we are done!<\/li>\n<li>Temperature range: 25C (Galapagos) to -20C (Bolivia \u2013 brrr!)<\/li>\n<li>Min and max pieces of clothing worn: one (swimming with sharks in the Galapagos) and 16 (Lucy in Bolivia, not including three blankets, a sleeping bag and a hot water bottle at night)<\/li>\n<li>Max days without a shower: 3.5 (twice \u2013 Uyuni Salt Flats and Inca Trail). For the record, it&#8217;s OK if you are both smelly at the same time<\/li>\n<li>Pisco sours drunk: 35 (best one claimed made by James in Easter Island). And 35 isn&#8217;t as bad as it sounds between the two of us over a whole month! On second thoughts, how did we drink so little?<\/li>\n<li>Rodents eaten: not entirely sure. Rodents eaten on purpose: one<\/li>\n<li>Highest altitude: 4,900m (on the Uyuni salt flats tour. Gasp, wheeze.)<\/li>\n<li>Most bone rattling ride: it&#8217;s a close call between the bus ride from Uyuni to Potosi (Lucy hit the ceiling at one point, from a reclining chair) and the final night crossing in the Galapagos (Lucy hit the ceiling at one point, from a prone position in bed)<\/li>\n<li>Best building: you might think the Incas would win this, but our hotel room in Puno after four days in a jeep had a duvet! And a hot shower! And cable TV!<\/li>\n<li>Best monolithic structure (South Pacific island category): the HUGE double ice cream cone that James ate in the shade of a stone Moai on Easter Island<\/li>\n<li>Best new expression: &#8220;Poop!&#8221; \u2013 used twenty times a day by our guide in the Galapagos, and now a common part of our joint vocabulary. (But think about it, he has grannies and toddlers in his multi-lingual groups \u2013 how better to say it?)<\/li>\n<li>Most unexpected cake: it&#8217;s a tie between the one five days out of port on the Galapagos boat trip baked on a slant in the galley, and the one three days into the Inca trail, baked on a propane burner. One said &#8220;Happy Honeymon&#8221; (sic) in icing; the other had bright green jelly on top \u2013 decisions, decisions<\/li>\n<li>Scariest flight-related moment: a toss-up between Lucy in a turbulent six seater Cessna over the Nasca lines, and James when a condor about the size of the aforementioned Cessna flew low over his head in Colca Canyon<\/li>\n<li>Closest wildlife encounter: you might think it was in the Galapagos, but almost being pushed off the Inca Trail over a sheer drop by a pack Llama probably clinches it<\/li>\n<li>Intrepid Points gained: hundreds!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, goodbye South America, roll on Papua New Guinea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countries visited: four (Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia) Visa stamps collected: sixteen (including cheeky unofficial ones from the Inca trail, Macchu Picchu, Galapagos Islands and Easter Island). Lucy might run out of passport space before we are done! 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