The Inca Tinker Tailor Trail is actually more commonly known as the Inca trail. Its a 45km, four day, three night hike along an ancient Inca path. The trail passes many Inca ruins, climbs three peaks and finishes at the ancient Inca city known as Machu Picchu. It was the grand finale to Dans Peru trip. DAY 1 On Friday morning at 6:15 we set off on the bus for a two hour drive to the start, a place known as kilometer 82. When we got off the bus and met our guid...

We left Nazca and took an overnight bus to Arequipa. In Arequipa our taxi crashed. Everyone in Peru drives like a nutter. Kat always remarks it's a wonder they never seem to crash, I reply I think they do we just never see it. Our time had come. In the taxi from the bus station we approached a crossroads. There is no give way instruction or traffic lights, the rule seems to be who ever gets there first has right of way. Our driver didn't slow down and whe...

Pisco & Poor mans Galapagos The three of us bused it down the panamerican highway to Pisco and found a boat to take us out to what the lonely planet had dubbed the poor mans Galapagos island. For $10 we were speed boated out to an island in the pacific and watched sea lions sunbathing, penguins swimming around the boat, pelicans fishing, blue footed boobies strutting and smelt the heavy scent of thousands of years of rotting bird ****, mmmmmmm! The animals...

We have been planning a trip around Peru with Dan, Kat's brother for about six months now. We picked him up on Sunday evening from a Lima airport police cell, and, after a small misunderstanding involving some talculm powder. (Only joking,) Dan had finally arrived in Peru. We all went out for dinner that night where he tested out the obligatory bottle of Inca cola, a sort of nuclear waste coloured sugary drink, its very nice. Kat and I had been concocting a c...

Hello Coopertrooper blog followers. Hope you liked our little April fools joke We left the wonderfully crazy La Paz, after getting my shoes burnt - see picture - and went to see Lake Titicaca on the border with Peru. The plan was to take a 2 hour boat out to the centre of the lake and visit Isla del sol, the island of the sun, and spent four days trekking around the island up at 4000m. The high altitude is hard to take in a breath but good training for when we ...