The bus journey was hot and long. We stopped half way at the highest point of the journey 4400m! You could tell we had ascended as our ears were popping and our mouths were dry again! Before getting on the bus Katerine and Achim had brought us all lunch bags with cake and chocolate treats in! It was such a lovely surprise and we were all very pleased!! Most of the journey I wrote my diary as Ed slept and they decided to put a film on that never got to finish wh...

Well the plane didn't even get very high and we could see all the towns and mountains along the way. It didn't even take an hour and we were landing! We grabbed our bags and got on a bus to head to our next hotel! We had an hours nap before meeting back down in the lobby for an orientation walk of Cuzco city. Achim was suffering badly from altitude sickness so didn't join us! In the month of June Cuzco celebrate everyday!! So we walked down to the main square...

I slept the whole journey of the night bus and we arrived early at 7:45am, we grabbed our belongings and made our way to our private mini bus to take us to our next hotel. Sadly the others on our tour didn't have a great sleep but it was their first bus I guess Ed and I are just used to them now!! We were gradually getting higher and had to start acclimatising this meant trying to drink at least 3 litres of water a day!! We grabbed breaky at the hotel in Arequi...

Well it wasn't rest yet! It was the easiest customs we've ever passed through and extremely daunting when we walked outside. People filled the streets!! Luckily we had booked a transfer with the hostel and there was a young man waiting with a sign with our names printed on it!! The drive from the airport was scary and my seatbelt didn't work. We passed through one of the most dangerous suburbs of Lima and were warned to lock our doors. I have been in western ci...

The 12 hour flight from Auckland to San Francisco was filled with food, films and sleep, it went pretty quick! After going through scary passport control we collected our bags and headed to baggage hold as we wanted to use our time in the city wisely and go and explore. We checked them in, freshened up and headed for the Bart train similar to our underground. We hopped off in the city and walked towards the pier. We wanted to have a tour of Alcatraz the famous ...