Our bus to take us to Colca Canyon picked us up at 3.30am!!!!! Needless to say we´d both fallen asleep pretty much as soon as we got on there. The day before in Arequipa was boiling, so much so that for the first time this trip I actually wore a dress (up until this point i´d had trousers on everyday) so when I woke up on the bus I couldn´t believe we were in the mountains surrounded by snow, it looked amazing! After about 4 hours we stopped for breakfast whi...

It´s been a while since we blogged as we´ve really not stopped so here´s the next installment. After Uyuni we decided to take a short detour to Oruro as it was only £4.50 for a ticket for a 7 hour bus journey. It turns out there was a reason it was so cheap! After the bus to Uyuni we thought it couldn´t get any worse, we were wrong! Firstly there was no toilet on board which is a disaster for Casson as he pee´s like a race horse. Secondly, the road was tha...

The bus journey from Cusco to Puno was absolutey fine but took about 7 hours in total. There was an older American guy on board who really pee´d Casson off, the conversation went a little bit like this: American Bozo: Where abouts are you guys from? Casson: The UK American Bozo: Yes but where from? You guys speak weird, you don´t speak the Queens English do you? Casson: We all have regional accents, it´s still English American Bozo: Yes but where abouts i...

Well it´s a little overdue but we thought it was time to update you on Macchu Picchu and the Inca trail. We were picked up from our hostel on 9th January at 6am (we´d been waiting since 5.15am), we were pretty much the last ones to get picked up so as soon as you get on the bus you start assessing people to see if anyone looks mega fit (as you all know I´m definitely not so this was important to me). It was hard to tell so we just sat back as it was a couple ...

We left Lima a day early as we weren't massive fans of it, and the fact that our hostel overcharged us by about £40 for the room we definitely don't have fond feelings for the place. I have to give Casson his due here though, he argued the toss for about an hour before giving up! Anyway, we jumped in a taxi to the bus station, arrived in plenty of time so Casson went to check which platform we were going from. 5 minutes later he rushed over and started flinging...