Once again offexploring has failed us when it comes to a picture to match the blog. And bad news I'm afraid - we wont be uploading any photos of the amazing colca canyon as we realised when we arrived in Arequipa that we'd left our memory card reader (with the card in it) in the internet cafe in Cuzco! Very upsetting indeed when we were in such an amazingly photographic place. So we got to Arequipa and booked ourselves a bus straight away to Cabanaconde. The bus...

Well this is the second time I'm writing this blog as the computer crashed just as I finished the first one... We had mixed feelings about our Machu Picchu experience. We tried to book an Inca Trail months back but places are limited to 500 a day and its peak season and we ended up just missing out. But the company we'd tried to book with already had our substantial deposits and offered to transfer them to a different tour. We still wanted to see Machu Picchu so...

We arrived in Cuzco in the afternoon and headed for our hostel The Point right near the centre. We were both feeling a bit crap for the first couple of days, both a bit ill, so didn´t really manage to do much. Shamefully the first night we ended up eating at The Real McCoy, an english pub, where we had baked potatos with cheese and BAKED BEANS! theyr're really not something you get in europe or south america so that was quite exciting for us. We were in a smal...

Copacabana didn't go as planned. The bus ride was only a few hours with some good sceery. crossing the Tiquina strait was funny. We had to get off the bus and cross by boat whilst our bus was also transported across on a rafty thing - a very odd sight indeed. once we got back on the bus we were driving alongside lake titicaca, supposedly the worlds highest navigable lake,until we reached copacabana. This was the plan: spend one night in copacabana then in the m...

ok so you might have noticed that the picture attatched to many of our blogs has been this church. we've been using it as a generic city shot beacuse you have to choose a pic and they have a crap selection but at last, the pictures accurate - we've actually been there! Iglesia San Francisco in La Paz. so we boarded our bus from uyuni just past 8pm. It wasn't quite as comfy as advertised but that was kind of to be expected. We chosen a company who had 'direct ser...