TIME FOR DA LARES TREK. I was so ready for this, had my leggings on, Chanco was strapped to my headband, was suncreamed up. First we had a 3 hour bus ride along really rickety mountain roads to get to Lares town, where the trek starts, you have a day sack which you carry, and you can store all the stuff you don't need during the day in your duffle bag, which the mules carry. We had our main guide Joel, and our assistant guide Omar, 2 chefs and 4 general camp hel...

We had a free morning in Cusco before heading to Ollantaytambo, where the treks start from. A bunch of us decided to visit Cusco's Choco Museo, which was Ah-mazing. A lady showed us a cacao tree, explained the fermentation process, and we saw a map of where most Cacao is grown and eaten; mostly grown in Malaysia, mostly eaten in Switzerland, although in the UK one person averages 97 chocolate bars per year. NINETY-SEVEN

day twenny for Breakfast was included in this hotel, so more bread and jam #sweet, there was a lovely little man who asks you if he can cook you some eggs but I'm not that into eating chicken ovums so I passed. Went for the free walking tour at 10.30, if I'm honest it wasn't very good, I'm not sure if it was because I was tired or the guide wasn't great, but I zoned out for a lot of it, I think also he was only telling me things I already knew. The day before ...

Day 23: I'm massively procrastinating this blog, which is awful because I actually want to record memories but hey, once a procrastinator always a procrastinator :/ So on Sunday morning we got to Cusco at 7am, but our rooms wouldn't be ready until 11

Day 22 was a pretty nothing day, we got the bus back to Arequipa, and I basically slept the whole day, and then basically chilled in the lobby of the hotel all day until it was time to get a night bus. We didn't have rooms so I had to repack my back in a road, where my mosquito net decided to pop open just as a car was coming in ( I binned it as punishment) I forgot to mention that yesterday we stopped in this town called Maca, where there were tons of women ...