We had a different waiter at breakfast this morning, Angel must have been close to retiring but he had the spirit of a teenager making jokes and generally just fussing over us. The food was the same but it felt somehow better this morning. There wasn't much else happening in the morning apart from packing and taking a taxi to Cruz del Sur bus station at Javier Prado. We didn't have the best seats on the bus but for some reason we were invited into the VIP Loung...

We had to go out the hotel to the restaurant below our room for breakfast. It was no real hardship and the food was good for Peruvian standards - eggs, ham, toast, juice and coffee. We finally resolved the booking problem with F1 Hotel through Booking.com even though they initially said they had spoken with the manager and he said he was expecting us to arrive in the afternoon. The emails coming back from the hotel were from somebody else. After the essential...

We slept well on Cruz Del Sur's big, wide 'Cama' seats until they decided to put the lights on before arrival at Lima's Plaza Norte. We weren't even getting off there but we had to give our blankets and pillows back even though it was another hour before our station at Javier Prado. They pulled into the station on time at 6am and we were quickly off the bus and collected our luggage. We decided that since it was quiet at that time in the morning, we would buy o...

We needed a lazy morning after all the early wake ups of the past few days so we didn't bother with the alarm. We slept late and just managed breakfast at the hostel before they closed. Afterwards, we packed our bags and left out some stuff for mailing home like our snorkeling gear. We got a large box from the nearby supermarket and with a pair of scissors and a few metres of duct tape, it was fashioned into a more reasonable sized parcel. We went to Californ...

We thought yesterday was an early start, today our pick up was at 5.30am with a private car who took us to meet the minivan waiting at Albergue Benkawasi, where Andy ad Carlee were staying. With 15 people on board, we headed 60km north on main highway, passing slowly through a really busy market village, to Yungay. It wasn't long before the sun was rising, lighting the snowy peaks on our right and warming the colours of the Cordillera Negra range on our left. ...