I got to the bus station early this morning and the earliest bus going to Puno was Cruz del Sur and they gave me a deal that was 1/2 the price of the cheats in town so I booked it and headed off. The road to Puno is a bitumen road but it is like driving over corrugated gravel. Its the roughest bitumen road Ive been on in a long while. The first part of the trip goes the same way as Chivay so you go through the high desert. The whole west coast is desert. After a ...

Im back in Ariquipa after an amazing couple of day seeing the condors in the colca canyon. This morning while I was waiting for breakfast I went for a walk and the cathederal was open so I went in for a look. The cathederal is the big building that dominates the plaza and is 1 of only 100 in the world who can fly the Vatican flag. I walked around quietly looking at the huge organ, said to be the biggest in South America. and there were all these cubicles. All woo...

Hey danny You will see on your site I tried to post this there but these computers are sooooooooooooooooooo slow. Half the letters on the keyboards are missing and all the pop ups are in spanish, so I just keep clicking and hope for the best. I waited 15 min and it still didnt go through. I will delete this post in a few days. If you are interested you might be able to linke it or transfer it to your site So anyway this morning I was having a couple of chicha...

Well I had a long night. I went to bed at 5.30pm Thaaaaats correct 5.30pm cos the altitude was really having an effect. At 6.30 some idiot was banging on my door, when I answered it he garbled something in spanish and when I said yes he left so I closed the door and went back to bed. At 7.00 I woke again with a killer headache from AMS. Same as Darjeeling last year. I took a couple of disprin and went back to sleep. Every 2 hours I woke up so took 2 disprin and f...

Well I came on a tour cos it was cheap: All included and I just sit there so it is pretty cruisy. Prices for the tours are fairly arbitary and people seem to have paid from 120s to 45s. Me being the cheapskate paid 45 and most seem to have paid around 70. They picked me up in the bus at 8.30 and after a few more stops we were on our way to Canyon country. We passed through a national park called Pampas de Tocra. It is a national park cos they have vicunas there, ...