Mammoth trip and finally arrived in New Zealand after 38hrs of travel and a loss of one day!  Got to Auckland, nice to be in a country where you don't stand out and can walk alone! Saw Auckland, some galleries and sights!  Then set off the next day on the stray bus.  This bus is a hop on hop off jobby, but I'm going to be on the move a while!  Driven by a driver nicknamed captain planet, with an array of nationalities on the bus, headed off to Hahai.  Was w...

Post inca trail, back to cuzco (on a very painful and dodgy train ride! Not having a lot of luck with transport!) to celebrate the end of the walking, and let my legs recover! Left to go to Arequipa on a sauna of a night bus! Highlight of Arequipa involves the mummified body of a inca child sacrifice. So obviously went to see this and get more inca educationess! A lot of processions in Arequipa, they love their brass bands so whiled away some hours watching ...

Inca trail Day 1 Up at 6am, with our guide Wilbert, set off to kilometer 82. Here it begins, on what they describe as the easy day!! Learnt this day that I don't share the same defiition of easy as the guides! Hiked up and down, saw inca ruins and got very hot and dusty!!!Also discovered the vast quantites you get fed! So all that extra eating I had done up till now in the hope I would lose weight on the trek...,bit of a mistake! The porters carry all the stuf...

Said farewell to la paz and Bolivia on the 17th. Not before the most random thing ever, choilta wrestling. Think typical Bolivian dressed women, big skirts, random small bowler hats, wrestling WWF style wrestlers, in WWF style, so random. So so awful really did lose 3hrs of my life, but worth it for the moment the wreslter took out Debs in the front row, priceless! Said farewell to half the group, now down to 7 onward to Peru. Stayed at lake titicaca in a town c...

Final days in Bolivia, it's definatly a country that you remember! Such a random country it definatly provides you with plenty of dinner stories!!! After the palava of getting stuck, we flew to Sucre from La Paz. Bolivian airlines...go a bit like this...very slow take off, bumpy flight, and landing at about 10x the normal speed, rolling down an ever dissapearing length of runway, that at the end, is a cliff! Needless to say the fear of flying I thought I had conq...