So, last day and a half in Cusco. After 4 hours sleep, went for a trip to the Temple of the Sun and the local market. Good to get out in the fresh air!!! Lunch was fantastic, a local veggie restaurant that was cheap and served huge portions of the most delicious food. I had a burger and chip carb fest (well I was in recovery!!). Last evening together, the family went to experience their first taste of guinea pig. Glad I'm a veggie, as Jane put it, George (a...

I'm going to write one big blog for the Inca trail, so grab a coffee and settle down....... Day 1 - Met our two assistant guides on the way to the starting point today, Kennedy and Robinson. Seem lovely, quite shy, but sure they will be great. Stopped where the porters were gathering everything together, as in Nepal, they carry huge weights (regulated to 25kgs), using the same path we take, obviously putting us to shame along the way! Had a pic taken, passpo...

7 hour bus ride today, well actually it was a double decker coach, with a loo, on proper tarmac roads, luxury! No beeping in Peru either!!! Journey went quite quickly, which was good, arrived in Cusco about 3pm, checked in, then went for a bit of a tour round the town. Really nice feel to the place, the city is surrounded by mountains, has lots of olde worlde buildings and narrow cobbled streets. Looking over the city is an almost identical statue of Rio's Ch...

Thought I'd give you the pleasure of my artistic genius as described in my last blog. Pretty good lie in (we were dreading 4 hours of not being able to communicate as per last night, so a late start was appreciated), then breakfast, a boiled egg (fantastic, I've had eggs in many different forms on my trip but this was the first boiled one), and fried pancake things, very nice, but there were a lot of them. Beginning to understand where Andean women get their ...

Good nights sleep and already feeling better (hurrah!). Took a Tuk Tuk ride (the tricycle ones) to the harbour, quite funny, ended up racing each other and a couple of of them had music blaring out, so with the rest of the rush hour traffic, was a bit like whacky races!! Not sure I've mentioned it, but they have alot of VW Beatles here, the old style, not the new plastic version, interesting car of choice!! Stopped to get toys, pencils and food for our home stay...