Cuzco 1am in the morning and we are woken by the stillness of the bus and then by some security people searching the bus, no idea what for, including looking under our feet before leaving us to continue on our journey. We arrive in Cuzco at just after 4am and settle ourselves down to wait for daylight before making a move to walk to our hostel. Finally at about 6 it is light enough for us to walk safely and with our packs on our back we made our way through th...

Floating Islands We were up rather early today as we had been told that we would be picked up from the hostel at 8 for a tour we'd booked the previous evening. We had our breakfast of bread, jam and tea before heading down to reception where we were informed that we were in fact half an hour early and woudn't be picked up until 8:30. We decided to use this time to get some money out and had a brief look at the church, park and railway station (which looks very...

Across the border. We didn't really do much today, firstly we sorted out the payment to Mae's dad, which took a ridiculous amount of time considering we phoned them the day before!! We then set off, after grabbing a coffee of course, to discover if anything was happening with regards to the festival today. It turned out however that it wasn't really, there were still lots of victory parades going on and many people getting drunk but apart from that not much......

Festival de la Virgen de la Candelaria After a not very amazing nights sleep due to the incredible shape of the mattress that kept rolling us both to the centre, we got up and checked our emails to find that we had a reply from the Berlin Salsa Congress and needed to arrange payment to them to secure the tickets. This was easier said than done and after spending the whole morning on the phone (skype) to the bank and my Dad we eventually got it paid but still h...

Copacabana again After our earlyish night we had expected to get up at an early hour, however the bed was so comfy and I guess we were pretty tired from all the climbing and walking yesterday so we didn't emerge until about 9.30. By the time we had dressed and packed our bags it was 10 and we started walking down the long set of rough steps again to the lake shore to get a boat back to Copa which a man passing us said would leave at 10.30. This gave us just en...