The four hundred and seventy one kilometre journey to Arequipa took us ten hours by bus and we arrived as the sun was rising at 5.30am. The bus was fine, watched snatch and fell asleep I did wish that Peru hop would arrive at places later so you had chance of a bit more kip but luckily the hostel we were staying at was able to check us in straight away so we could nod off some more. The hostel we were staying at was The Wild Rover. The Wild Rover had a particular...

We arrived back in Cusco at 1.30am after our train ride and another cramped mini-bus journey. After being up at 4am the previous it was fair to say I was pretty shattered so headed straight to bed to rest my head. The next day started with a Full English and watching Man Utd destroy QPR 4-0 at the hostel, what could be better to start to the day eh? The football didn't stop there as I went to sample a Peruvian Premier League game between Real Garcilaso and Alian...

My early night didn't go quite as plan, as I got hooked watching Need For Speed and a few episodes of Friends but on the plus side I was well on the mend from my recent illness. We had breakfast - the free bread, jam and banana offered by Loki, checked out and picked up our packed lunch which Loki offered their guests going on tour - pretty good of them I thought - it consisted of an apple, banana, ham and cheese sarnie, crackers and boxed juice. We were then off...

I may have had a swollen eye but thanks to the Ibuprofen I was feeling much better in myself. It was only twenty minutes' drive to the Bolivia / Peru border and getting our passport stamps was relatively straight forward. They didn't even check any of our baggage, another border crossing where you could smuggle anything across in fact if you wanted to you could walk from Bolivia to Peru or vice a versa with no problem whatsoever without getting any passport stamp...

Waking up feeling like s*** and with a swollen face wasn't ideal. It would have been if it was a long night bus like 24 hours where I could just sleep and chillax but no it was only a 4 hour bus ride to the Copacabana and then we had a tour to an Island, it wasn't what I needed, but I had to get on with it. Our bus picked us up from the hostel at around 7am, we were joined on the bus by three Aussie chicks, a English couple a German girl and a Dutch girl who was...