Day 35 Crossing the border. Copa Cobana, Vanessas last night` We set off from Puno early in the morning for a long bus ride to the border with Bolivia , it was a relatively easy crossing apart from the fact that we were banned from talking to our tour guides. Bolivia has a slight issue that they don�t like Peruvian guide, why can�t a Bolivian guide tourists round Bolivia? But we had no problems and arrived at the sleepy town of Copa Cobana...

Day 30: Machu Pictu and Agua CallientesSo we get up at 4am, pitch black and have breakfast early so the porters can get to their train on time. At 530 we set off for the sun gate, it?s starting to be lighter but it?s still pretty dark as we ascend for another hour up the side of the Mountain Machu Pichu. We got to the top, a highly non trivial feet given the previous 3 days activities and did we see the sunrise over Machu Pichu? well for about 5 seconds there was...

Day 20: Arrive in Areuipa, Mummy of Juanita and giant convent.Arequipa is Peru?s secod ciy home to just over 1 million people it is flanked by several large volcanoes, one of which is snow capped. The cities main attraction is the mummy Juanitia, found within the last 20 years on top of one of the tallest volcanoes in the area. She was an Inca sacrifice and was very well reserved by he freezing temperatures.The most likely explanation for her sacrifice was to app...

Day 12 Bus to trojillo was a bit of a nightmare, if only I'd been sleeping. People getting on and off all night and incredibly painful sun burn on my legs. But we arrived early morning and headed to the beach resort of Huanchaco, of course it's winter here and being a couple of hundred miles down the coast it was really cold! Day 13 Trujillo is a fairly large town with several important archeological sites in it's area. We started the day with a trip to...

Day 4: Long trek in the Jungle for 8 hours followed by caymen spotting from a canoe.The jungle trek was amazing, we saw monkey, birds and lots of creepy crawly type things. The most fun bit of the trek was the fact that we were clambering up muddy paths falling over each other, generally laughing for hours. We eat lunch sitting on a fallen over tree with ants everywhere: be proud, I didn?t even squirm once! Our trusty local guide Bolivar looked after us with a hu...