PLittle did we know about a bus strike taking place in Cusco barring all public transport traffic into or out of the town, however, the first we learnt of this turn of events was in Cusco checking in to the hostel at 10pm when our bus had pulled outside and woken us up from our slumber. They were quite surprised to have seen us as a number of other buses had had to turn back around to Ollyantambo or worse back to Agues Callientes. To this day I have no idea how w...

We were picked up at 5:15am from our hostel by the 'red army' as our porters were known to us (for their bright red head to toe outfits although we would later discover that the other porters refer to them as the firemen). The last to be picked up from Cusco we were bundled on to the bus with the rest of our Inca Trail group - Rob and Jemma from Australia, Yen and Ruben from Singapore and Lindsay from England - and started for Ollyantambo where we would pick up o...

Well the first thing about Cusco is the altitude. Cusco sits 3300m above sea level - thats 10,800 foot, comparable to some of the skydives in New Zealand. On the plane from Lima the hills weren't that far down in fact you could see them poking through some of the clouds we were flying over and landing was very brief as there wasn't too much ground to lower through. It was a very pleasant flight in fact, the first 20 minutes of ascent allowed us to get some pretty...

After bundling ourselves into the first taxi to come down the street we began a conversation on what airport we were actually going to - Buenos Aires has two - an international airport (Ezeiza) and a domestic airport (called aeropark) the airport name on our ticket (Pistarini) matched niether however, figuring we were going to Lima we went with the international airport. Thankfully it was the correct airport, for whatever reason known only to Aerolineas Argentina...