FOOD AND DRINK (refer to photo album) - I think Peruvian cuisine deserves a separate chapter. Peruvian food recently has been recognised through out the world: Lima is being called a new capital of food, book by Martin Morales "Ceviche" is flying off the shelves and his London'sCeviche restaurant is always full so are the world renown chef's Gaston Acurio restaurants. The food and dishes vary depending on the regions due to different climates: coast, Andes or th...

Following day we boarded a bus at 7am and left towards the Bolivia and its holiday resort Copacabana situated on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca. The journey took abotu 4 hours and the most interesting part wascrossing the Bolivian border. We had to fill in an immigration card first then stopped to exchange currency. When eventually stopped at the border we had to remember to have the Peruvian immigration cards (if they were not lost while trekking) stamped by...

Our tour operator for the Titicaca Lake, All Ways Travel picked us up at 6:40am. We caught a boat from Puno's main port. There was probably about 20 of us and our main concern was that it may turn out to be a very touristic trip and the islands we were to visit will be packed with visitors. Our guide Joseph spoke very good English and gave us an excellent introduction and later on a plethora of information about the visited islands, their people, traditions and e...

We caught Tourismo Mer bus in the morning at 7:30am - a bit of lay in in comparison with our usual setting off times. Best thing about this journey was that the bus travel will be interrupted by 5 stops. This meant that we can travel and see new places at the same time. First we drove through the villages that we have seen before with Crees, such as Oropesa, the national capital of bread el pan. The guide picked up there a big flat round loaf and we all shared it...

As planned during the van trip back from the Inka Trail to Machu Picchu - Julianne and me have been laughing uncontrollably, for no reason really, maybe lack of oxygen as we have been climbing up again in the altitude and decided this energy can't be wasted :).) - we got out with Sabino, the guide and his friends to a Peruvian disco. Not some kind of turistic hole but a proper local place. It was Tuesday. Great fun :). We got to our beds by 4:30am. Dancing in th...