...and leave the rest for Bolivia"I lost the writing I'd done over the past week or two. I'll see what I can do to catch things back up now. I left off with us arriving in Puno in Southern Peru to visit Lake Titicaca, a childhood dream of Dair's and the cause of laughter amongst children in geography classes everywhere. Titicaca is the highest lake in the world and Puno sits at about 3800m above sea level. All this really meant was that we were both very easily w...

The day after our trip to Ollantaytambo, we set out for Machu Picchu. This was one of the main reasons we had chosen Peru as a destination, but being still tired out from our previous trek, we decided to skip the Inca Trail and just head to Aguas Calientes for the early morning hike up to the ruins. The town itself was tourist hell, but the three lovely people we befriended on the terrifying bus ride in, made up for that. We woke up at 4am for the ascent in the r...

Well we'd come this far, so it only made sense to scrap our initial time lines and head into Bolivia. So having just crossed the border, we're sitting having lunch in Copacabana and waiting for our bus to La Paz. I think I left off with us finishing the Colca Canyon and arriving in Cuzco, so let's start there, shall we…We spent a couple of days just bumming around and enjoying the city. Finally REAL COFFEE!!!! It's shocking how difficult it's been to find a cup...

We just finished our three day trek into one of the two deepest canyons in the world, and my knees have still not forgiven me for it. After a six hour minibus ride out to Chivay and beyond, we stopped to see the condors in flight which has of course spurred a never ending string of Flight of the Conchord songs with slightly varied words; if you want me to, I can fly 'round for you…The descent into the bottom of the canyon took about 4 hours down steep, dusty, n...

We've spent two days in Arequipa. It's beautiful here, and we're surrounded by mountains and volcanoes. I've been struggling a little with the altitude, but lots of water and coca leaf tea seem to be helping things along. Dair, while a little fuzzier than usual, is having less of a struggle. Sadly, no matter how much coca I consume, I don't seem to be catching a buzz; apparently the coca must be consumed in other manners to make it exciting. We spent yesterday an...