After arriving back from the Colca Canyon on Tuesday evening, we spent Wednesday just chilling before we got the night bus to Cuzco. Ash was feeling so much better thankfully and managed a pizza for lunch which was good! The bus left at 10pm so we were both pretty tired by the time we had boarded having chilled in the lounge of Cruz Del Sur (the bus company) at the bus station. We were very impressed, fingers crossed the journey would be the same and better than ...

We got picked up around 4am on Monday morning ready to hit the Colca Canyon after grabbing a bit of breakfast. Having not had enough sleep both Ash and I crashed out on the mini bus once we´d got settled. Before we knew it it was 2 hours later and we were at nearly 5000m high with snow all around us! Ash didnt look great and complained he didnt feel well but the guides put it down to the altitude and told us he would feel better once we descended to the next vil...

We had an amazing sleep on our first night in Peru and felt ready and raring to go on the Sunday morning to explore! The sun was shining and when we got dropped off at the Plaza Des Armes, we were more than impressed with what we saw. Arequipa is the second biggest city within Peru and is known as the white city as many of the buildings are built of sillar, a pearly whie volcanic rock; this is what makes the place so beautiful. We spent some time wandering around...

We had an amazing sleep on our first night in Peru and felt ready and raring to go on the Sunday morning to explore! The sun was shining and when we got dropped off at the Plaza Des Armes, we were more than impressed with what we saw. Arequipa is the second biggest city within Peru and is known as the white city as many of the buildings are built of sillar, a pearly whie volcanic rock; this is what makes the place so beautiful. We spent some time wandering around...

We got up early on Saturday morning ready to cross the border from Arica to Peru. Although we´d had a great time in Chile, and met some fantastic people, we were both really excited about heading into a 'real' South American country! After catching a collectivo to the taxi station we managed to easily get a car to take us across, and all seemed pretty straight forward to us. Our only issue was with our driver when he tried to cram both Ash and I in the front sea...