Juliet Ellwood Travel Expert

With a degree in Anthropology and History, and a fascination for Latin America since childhood, it was a book featuring photos of the Nazca lines that finally inspired Juliet to first visit the region in 2003. That six-week overland tour through Peru, Bolivia and northern Chile was the trip that had her thoroughly hooked. Since then she has made several return visits, including a number of extended backpacking trips. Meanwhile, her career saw her working in universities in Oxford and London, a media company in the Netherlands and as an English teacher in the Czech Republic.

Juliet has visited the majority of countries in Latin America, but has particularly extensive experience of Peru, a country she loves for many reasons but not least, its incredible archaeological richness and delicious food. Aside from Peru, other highlights have included El Chaltén, Argentina, where she danced the Chacarera with locals (a folk dance) into the small hours before an early start to trek to the base of Mount Fitz Roy. Guatemala is another favourite destination; Juliet has happy memories of studying Spanish in San Pedro La Laguna on the shores of Lake Atitlán, and camping beneath the summit of Tajumulco volcano, the highest point in Central America, in order to see the sunrise.