Arrived in Nazca at 7:30am & got collected at the bus station by the hostel owner, who used to live in England for a while. He let us check-in straight away, so we went & slept for a few hours as we'd not got huge amounts of sleep on the bus! By early afternoon we'd headed into town for a huge, cheap chicken & chips lunch after which I booked my flight over the Nazca lines for tomorrow morning. After reading about the safety of the planes (ie. only 4 ...

Decided on a spot of Cusco sight seeing today so headed off to the Cathedral. However when we got to the main plaza it was crowded, as a festival was taking place & cute children of varying ages from different classes from different schools were dressed up in traditional dress, all doing little dance routines with firecrackers through the crowds. Not sure what it was for, but it was very sweet. However it meant the Cathedral was closed! So we went off to Jack...

We spent the morning chatting about our next plans & ended up missing lunch with Cal, etc. so popped out on our own for a cuppa & a sarnie (that my hangover struggled with!) on a balcony just off the main plaza, watching the ridiculous amount of cops patrol the streets! At one point I counted 22 in my view!! It felt like we could have been in Camberley on a Saturday night! After that we spent the afternoon relaxing & on the Internet before a spot of d...

What I'd planned to do today, I found out yesterday that we couldn't! D'oh! I'd wanted to go to Winay Wayna, another Inca ruin, but you need to request permission a long time in advance. As a substitute, we were recommended to go to some local waterfalls. We took the 1.5 hour walk along the train tracks & then through the small rainforest to the couple of small waterfalls. They weren't the most impressive waterfalls, but it was a really pleasant walk & we...

3am saw us rise & join the bus queue about 30 from the front. Some people were walking up, but it was still dark & no-one actually knew the way, so we thought we'd stick with the bus. At 5am I joined the other queue to get us tickets to actually get on the bus!! & then re-joined Rach in the original queue & got on the 3rd bus at 5:30am up to the site. During our queue to get through the gates at the site, I got us stamps to do the 7am tour up Wana...