Arrived in Cuzco early from the start liked the look of the place lots of cobbled narrow streets. Eric gave us a tour of the town lots of incan streets and seems to be lots of stuff to see. Went to a nice bakery for lunch looked round the main plaza. We then went to Qorikancha, Iglesia de Santo Domingo a church built upon an Incan Temple which still had original Incan parts. It was very interesting the gardens were gorgeous. The church had some very stange pictur...

Arrived in Arequipa after the night bus not exactly fresh and first things first had a quick nap. We then headed out into town to find the Monasterio Santa Catalina went into a promising looking building which housed a museum it was not very much of much and was not the Monasterio. Second time found the Monasterio Santa Catalina and in I went Keeely choose to go back to the hotel. The Monasterio was huge like a small town with its own streets. There were few peop...

Arived in Lima and after all the scare stories we had been told about carjacks we opted to take the safest option to the hotel and go with the gap taxis already booked by other more organised travellers. The hotel was a lot nicer than we are used to so we took full advantage and went straight to bed. Woke up hungry about fourish and headed down to the sea and what happened to be the main tourist area and had a chinese for lunch. It could of been worse we could ha...

The overnight bus was pretty impressive to Pucon. Despite the comfort we still did not manage to sleep so arived at Pucon very tired. For the first time in ages some one tried to sell us their hostel but we stuck with our guns and headed to our first choice which turned out to be a good choice. On our way we picked up two other people (Vicky and Matthew) who also came to the hostel. Keeley was pretty happy as the hostel included a vegeterian resturant. The first ...

The last few days in Santiago we did and saw more things than in the preceding week. On the tuesday we went up Cristobals a big hill in the middle of the city with a statue of the virgin mary on the top. The views were very good and you could tell that nearly six million people call Santiago home a third of the population. To get to the top we travelled by cable car we were greated by serene music and a tranquil atmosphere. Lots of people sitting quietly around m...