Well it was one hell of a long journey from Lima to Chachapoyas. Luckily the bus was fairly comfy and fairly empty so we had a fairly good nights sleep but the journey in the daytime was awful. The air conditioning wasnt working so it was unbearably hot. So hot there were two americans throwing up all day. They were the wife and daughter of a baptist missionary form Mississippi. They were moving to Chachapoyas for a year (on the bus, they had huge amounts of lugg...

Not much to say really except we don't like it! Lima is a dull city. Its huge, sprawling, cold, foggy, dirty, polluted, full of cars. I know that sounds a bit like London or a whole load of other cities we've been to but it lacks the charm and magic that makes all that ok. Not even being by the sea can redeem it. We're staying at the point again which is nice but in order to get to the center we're forced to take a taxi or spend 1 hour on the bus! We're keen to g...

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...