Day 100 - Our centenary! We arrived at Cuzco at 6:30am on a very sunny morning, and after some confusion over who had the luggage tickets (I turned out to be right) we took a taxi to Niños hotel, which is really, really nice and is set up to support local children. We sat in the courtyard and had a really good breakfast before taking another taxi to the Peru treks office and paying for our Inca Trail trek that starts on Friday. After a run down of the trek and...

When we arrived back at the bus station in Arequipa we asked a taxi driver to take us to our hotel and he said no because there was a procession on. A bit miffed we asked him exactly how we would get there if a taxi couldn´t take us, and he said we needed a smaller car (his was a Focus)... we are still not sure how that would help us. Luckily another taxi driver in an equally sized car took us. Back at the hotel we had another scare as neither mine nor Alex´s ...

We returned to the bus station again in the morning to catch the 8:30am bus to Cabanaconde. The journey took 6 hours with no official toilet stops. So at the control gate into the Colca Canyon the bus stopped and I took the opportunity (along with a few others) to look for a toilet. No toilet. Everyone dispersed to look for a spot to squat with dignity. The bus started moving off before I was back aboard, but luckily it headed in the direction of where I was so h...

Short blog: In the morning we were confronted with Lolo, the 35 year old tortoise that lives in the hotel garden! First job of the day was to return to the same bus station we arrived at earlier in the morning to book tickets to the Colca Canyon for the next day. While we were there we saw lots of loaves of bread with faces on them strung up in the shops (you will see a demonstration of this in a subsequent blog). Then we went to the Santa Catalina convent in th...

Our nightbus woke us up and took our blankets away at 4:20am, and we arrived in Lima a good 30 minutes later. We took a taxi to the hotel that Mum had booked for the 3 of us, which is far nicer than anywhere that we have stayed before (save the Aida Maria of course). Obviously they didn´t yet have a room ready for us, but asked if we wanted to to sit on the sofa by the restaurant until later... we interpreted this as "would you like to sleep on the sofa until 10...