Day 29-31 Cusco, Peru Our first full day in Cusco we spent walking around the streets, planning the next few parts of our trip, getting our gear ready for the trek and just enjoying some of the sights of Cusco. We followed some of the tourist trails between old sights, tried a new street food which was pretty much warm corn bread wrapped in a corn husk, safe and tasty on Mia's scale of street food. The next day we were out on a full day tour of the Sacred Valle...

Day 27 - Back to Copacabana and onto Puno, Peru After a great breakfast overlooking Lake Titicaca we caught the ferry back to Copacabana where Brendan learnt a new card game from the Bolivian guys on the boat. We wandered around the streets of Copacabana, checked out the big old church, watched as locals got small figurines of cars, machinery, brides etc blessed in order to hopefully receive the full size versions in the coming year. We jumped on our bus to Pun...

Day 50-52 Mancora After another 9hr overnight bus ride, some antibiotics and a little sleep we arrived in Mancora (up the very north of Peru on the coast) feeling alot better. We were ready for some sun, surf, ceviche, amazing sunsets and hammock time. We caught a tuk tuk style taxi to our hostel which was called Naif Rustic Eco lodge and was 50 meters from the beach. It was 6:30am but the owners were there to meet us and give us the choice of 3 different bunga...

Day 38 - Cusco to Lima When booking our rout from Cusco to Lima we considered taking the bus for about 30 seconds and then when weighing up the options of a 17-22hr bus ride through the Andes Vs a 1hr 20min flight to Lima, we chose the flight very easily. The flight was easy enough and we were greeted at the airport by a man with our names on a sign. That was a nice start. Lima was a big city, with overcast weather, smog and a metropolitan beach that was not the...

Day 32 - 37 Salkantay trek The bus picked us up at 4:30 am and after a few stops it filled very quickly with trekkers and before we knew it there were 19 people in our group. A little more than the 9 total we were told were in our group yesterday. After a few hours drive to the beginning of our trek, we all hopped out, had a breakfast stop, packed our gear together and got introduced to the guides. Victor was the main guide and Jorge (Hor-hay) was the assistant....