Monday 30 September - Thursday 3 October Lake Titicaca, Peru & Bolivia Our night bus made good time and arrived early in Puno around 4am, which meant we had to wait in the cold bus station until sunrise before our 'free' shuttle came to fetch us from the Lucky Your House hostel. Upon arrival we were made to pay five Soles for the 'free' shuttle and when we didn't have anything smaller than a tenner, the driver made off with all of it before we knew what...

Thursday 19 September - Sunday 29 September Cusco and the Inca Trail, Peru We arrived in Cusco three days prior to the start of the Inca Trail to acclimatize ourselves before our 4D/3N expedition along the same trail the ancient Incas used for their pilgrimage to Machu Picchu. We'd booked the Inca Trail (another one of my 'Must Sees') with a company called Llama Path on a friends recommendation way back in April to secure our places as they only allow 500 h...

Monday 16 September - Wednesday 18 September Ica, Huacachina and the Nazca lines, Peru Lima, another grey dirty city was of no interest to us, so after an initial 15 hour journey from Mancora we were back on a bus to Ica, land of Pisco, another 4 hour journey south. Our plan for the next two days in the area was to check out Huacachina, a Pisco Bodega (vineyard) in Ica and the mysterious Nazca lines. Huacachina, a desert oasis is only 5 minutes drive from...

Friday 13 September - Sunday 15 September Mancora, Peru With our tickets already booked from Guayaquil (Ecuador) to Mancora (Peru) we were relieved to have made the connection in time. We were due to arrive in Guayaquil the night before so we used our booking at a nearby hostel to shower and grab a few hours rest before getting back on the bus. We left Guayaquil at 2pm on the comfortable Cruz del Sur coach and arrived in Mancora at about 11pm that night. Th...