Last days in Peru...after leaving Cusco we caught a bus to Puno on the Peruvian shore of Lake Titicaca (the largest high altitude lake in the world). The bus was a tourist bus designed to stop about 5 or 6 times along the way at various churches and ruins. Unfortunately our guides English wasn't the best and most of what he said was difficult to understand. The other downside was that the journey took about 10 hours!!! As we were nearing Puno we hit a big thund...

We arrived in Cusco at about 7am on 15th September and after checking in to our hostel we went straight to sleep for a couple of hours. The bus journey was 10 hours from Arequipa and we had big comfortable seats that almost went flat but neither of us slept that well. That said these busses are much more comfortable than any plane I've been on! We had 4 nights booked in our hostel and planned to visit Machu Picchu after that. Our original plan had been to get t...

At the time of writing this we have just completed a three day trek to the Colca Canyon. What a brilliant experience! We were picked up at 3.30 in the morning and then had a 3 hour journey to a small town called Chivay where we had a breakfast, well bread, cheese and ham, a Peruvian breakfast! After half an hour we all piled back in to the minibus and we went to our next stop to watch the Condors soaring above the canyon. I kept falling asleep but Sarah said th...

Whilst writing this we are sat in a mud and straw hut at the bottom of the Colca Canyon. The sun is going down and we've spent all afternoon by the swimming pool in a beautiful oasis...but more about that next time! After leaving Nazca we caught a 10 hour night bus to Arequipa (a-re-key-pa). The bus was reasonably comfy and we slept for most of the journey, although it was nearly 2 hours late picking us up after a 7 hour journey down from Lima. We boarded at 11p...

We're still in Nazca after a couple of busy days. On the 5th we arranged to visit the famous Nazca Lines. We worked out with the help of the lady from the Nazca Lodge (our hostel) that the best way to do this is to get a taxi. The alternative is to take a flight over the lines but with 4 plane crashes last year and many dead tourists we decided against that option. For 70 Soles (about £16) we could get the taxi driver to take us both to the Maria Reich Museum, t...