Checked in at Adventure Brew II Hostel (Adventure Brew I is a couple of doors down the road), which had great reviews but we´re not really sure why. It does give a free beer for each night you stay there, which probably explains the large number of British and Irish staying there. Aside from that it was hard work... we´d been there 5 minutes before the receptionist was just being very difficult and unhelpful. Despite an already tiring day (plus the La Paz alt...

So after dropping Mum off at her departure gate, Alex and I killed 3 hours back in the cafe eating pancakes for breakfast until we could check in for our flight to Rurre. We then waited in the lounge for 11:15am to come and go and still no boarding call. The staff came and told us that there was bad weather at Rurre, and we therefore couldn´t fly yet - they would give more information at midday. Luckily the agony of waiting was slightly eased when Alex was able ...

Stuck in Copacabana we had a fruit juice and then watched the Tour de Bolivia pass through the city streets. It was quite amazing, 15 minutes ago you`d never know there was a cycling race about to pass through the city. At 3:15pm we re-boarded our bus and by 3:30pm we were back on the road to La Paz. The views leaving Copacabana were tremendous; rolling undulations of the altiplano scattered with campesions tending to their livestock, and for the first 2 hours w...

Up at 5:30am to take a taxi to the Inka Express Bus terminal. Still raining in Cuzco! The bus left at 7am towards Lake Titicaca and I enjoyed yesterday´s train snacks for breakfast. The bus had a guide who spoke clear spanish and good english, and a hostess who brought us a drink after each stop. The whole day was very touristic, but interesting and comfortable, and contrary to our usual nightbuses, we actually got to experience all the sights on the way. First...

After a ridiculously short sleep we all got ourselves downstairs for our pick up time of 5:20am... over an hour of waiting (while I could have been in bed) later our bus finally arrived and we set off towards Ollantayambo. It took 2 hours to arrive at the rather striking town nestled in a valley with incan ruins on the mountainsides. Here we had breakfast and met our guides David and Janet, and the rest of our group - 16 in total: Fellow Brits Paul (from Cheltenh...