Our bus journey to Lima was easy enough considering it took 16 hours. We left Arequipa at around 5pm and were treated to 3 straight crappy films with English subtitles before bed. We woke up the next day to find that the bus was a couple of hours behind schedule, so we had to endure another couple of movies, including some Mr. Bean film I didn´t even realise existed, before we arrived at 9am. The city of Lima is huge, with over 7 million inhabitants, but our ...

We were in Arequipa from the 6th December until the 16th, which included a three day trek in nearby Colca Canyon. We were recommended an excellent hostel by some people in Cuzco. It was cheap and new and clean with ensuite and sky tv. Quite a treat I tell you. Add to that a tasy breakfast on the terrace where there were loads of hummingbirds which Alan tried to photograph relentlessly. He also got to watch football (yawn). Arequipa is a nice city we spent our fi...

Nearly a year after we had first investigated the trek, and over 6 months after we had paid our deposits, the time had finally come to do The Inca Trail. Though there are many alternative routes to the Inca city ofMachu Picchu, which was discovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911, we were walking the classic 45km trail over 4 days and 3 nights. There were 16 people in our group and two guides - Alberto and Ramiro, who we met briefly at the orientation the night before...

We stayed in Cusco for 8 nights in total, 3 before the Inca trail and 5 after. It is a really nice city, although very touristy. We had a nice hostel a 15 minute walk from the main square. We arrived late from La Paz the day before my birthday. We had a lot of trouble fidning the hostel we´d booked as it wasn´t on the road it said it was on. It was really annying wandering around at night with a big backpack tired after a long journey. We also got ripped off by...

We arrived in La Paz (the world´s highest capital city) at around 9am and headed straight to the taxi rank. We headed towards one hostel, but it didn´t appear to be open, so we set off for another across town. When we got there it was fully booked, but luckily there was another place just around the corner. It was quite quiet, but the building was the former presidential residence at the turn of the 20th century, and had a nice courtyard in the centre.Once w...