So, still in Cusco and this is where we said our farewells to Delia and Lee who had been great travelling companions, on and off, since Mendoza in Argentina. We had booked our coach journey to Arequipa a few days earlier so imagine our surprise when we got to the coach station only to be told that although our tickets had that days date, the women who booked the ticket on the computor had put the day we bought the tickets as the date we were leaving. So, accordin...

Having spent 3 days in Puno, we were ready for our next taste of Peru. This was in the form of Cusco, the centre of the Inca civilisation and where we would be doing our trek to Michau Picchu, we couldn`t wait. To make a change from travelling on buses all the time we decided to travel on the train. Most of the countries in South America do not have a passenger rail network (even Argentina) and Peru was no exception, but the Puno - Cusco line was still open and a...

Puno is where everyone comes to see the floating reed island of Uros that sit on Lake Titikaca. The town itself doesn't have a good write up in most tour guides but we enjoyed it there and thought it was nice. Not a lot to see in the town but it seemed lively and the 'street sellers' were really jolly. When I say street sellers I don't mean market traders, these are locals who sell you their wares mostly at night when you are walking round the resturant/bar areas...