Day 2: INCA TRAIL (The Challenging day) _____________________________ SIG'S VIEW: Woken with a cup of tea and the zipper on our tent - Breakfast was served. Vic was again in good mood as her prayers had been answered and pancake was on the menu. Optermistic and blaming anything that made me feel better for my poor performance, we set out on the 'Challenging day'. Not even an hour had passed before Jerome was complaining and talking of turning back. The ...

Day 1: INCA TRAIL (the EASY day) ___________________________________ SIG'S VIEW: It was a nervous start to the INCA TRAIL. Somehow our group of four had turned to two and my name resembled more a Japanise film star than a humble Yorkshire boy. Having actually kicked up a bit of a fuss we we're escorted to KM 82 and the start of the 4 day Trail. Our Group was small and sent from heaven. 2 tourists, an older couple maybe 30 to 40ish with a stomach ...

Hola, Well we thought we'd better say hello before we embark on our four day treck to Machu Picchu! After spending a good few days in Puno (Lake Titi) we thought we'd share our experiences of life on the lake. After strugling to find a boat we finally agreed to set sail with the "San Simon". Our first stop was the floating islands of Uros. Even having read before hand about the islands we still shocked when we first stepped on the floating reeds. It was just...

FRIDAY (Something?) of September ______________________________ Puno - Peru "Vic's Bowels Adventure" ______________________________ ...Puno, a surprisingly uneventiful and quite enjoyable 5 hour bus journey, musical entertainer, only one begger, and we arrived at our destination. Not making the same mistake as Ariguipa (long story) we decided to make the centre our base as far away from the bus terminal as possible! To the 'Mercado Centrali'...

Last night was the start of the great journey towards Peru. we are still travelling with our friends Jo and Mark from Stoke. We left San Pedro at 8.45pm. The next port of call was Arica, a journey which would take 10 1/2 hours. We finally arrived in Arica after a very bumpy journey over mountains and through desert. According to Sig I\'d been a bit grumpy in the night, this I find very hard to believe. Apparently I stole his pillow and he wasn\'t too happy ...