After months of waiting, it's finally time to conquer the Inca Trail... Day 1 As much as I enjoy experiencing new things and seeing new places, every time we go on an organised tour they alway insist on a ridiculously early morning. And the Inca Trail was no different. With the bus waiting for us at 0530am on Wednesday morning we walked down to the plaza to get on it and start our 4 day adventure. I must admit that at this hour I was not particularly excited bu...

Our bus ride from Copacabana to Cusco was pretty eventful. It was split into two, with the first bus taking us through a very easy border crossing and then changing at Puno, a small town on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca. The whole journey took around 11 hours and we did it during the day as we had heard bad things about the safety of the night buses. It wasn't until our second bus that things got interesting. When we were boarding the bus a Peruvian lady sta...