Arequipa is a beautiful city with a lovely main square where the locals hang out and feed the pigeons. The city is overlooked by a huge volcano. I was woken last night by a loud deep rumbling noise which made the wardrobes shake and rattle. I jumped out of bed to look out the window at the volcano but it was still in one piece and silent. Thats 4 earthquakes I've experienced now since being in South America. We booked our Colca Canyon trip, so looking foward...

Machu Picchu Well what can I say, just WOW. We woke up to rain that morning so we didn't get out of bed to catch the 5.30am train, it was dark and wet. We got up and instead caught the 6.30am train, by that time the rain had stopped and it looked like it was brighting up. We arrived at Machu Picchu gate for 7am and we rushed to Wayna Picchu as we had a ticket to hike it between 7am and 8am. We got there and entered at 7.40am. We decided to do the full wa...

Cusco We got to Cusco around tea time after a 7 hour bus journey. The journey went quick, it was comfortable with huge cama seats and we were at the front on the top deck so we had a great view coming into Cusco. A 7 hour bus ride is a short one, considering the length of some of our other journeys. The hostel was nice and we were shown a room which had 4 beds and private bathroom, all to ourselves, buzzing. Cusco is a great city, its pretty to look at wi...

Puno - Peru We arrived into Puno in the afternoon and it was lovely and sunny. We grabbed a taxi and arrived at Marlon's House in Puno. It was a lovely hostel, more like a hotel but with the friendliness of a hostel. Our room was fantastic, we had a corner room on the third floor with great views due to two walls were entirely made up of floor to ceiling glass. The room was really warm due to the sun shining in the windows all day, which was great especia...

Copacabana We arrived into Copacabana late afternoon. To get here the bus went on a small wooden boat to be transported across Lake Titicaca. Hence we all had to disembark and be taken on smaller speed boats across to the other side. We all watched and I was secretly praying that it didn't sink as all our luggage and worldly possessions would sink with it. Lake Titicaca is huge, apparently the worlds highest altitude lake. We arrived at our hostel and i...