Overnight in Puno - best Hotel of the trip, on to Pisco Market and then further on to Ollantaytambo. Buffet lunch in a beautiful garden.

Here are some pictures from our various stops around Peru.

Josie and I have been following the directions of the various tour guides in each city - we have been met at each airport, bus station, train station and it had seemed to work well without really paying much attention to the tour schedule. We got up in the morning from our luxurious hotel in Puno, bags packed and knew we were headed to Lake Titicaca. When the tour guide arrived she looked in horror at the size of our bags...come on, we both travel light.....s...

From the beautiful ''white' city of Arequipa we joined a group headed to the Colca Canyon, said to be the deepest canyon in the world. Everywhere, everyone claims their canyon is the deepest, their mountains the highest and so on. It is with the new GPS's and National Geographic and Discovery Channel crawling all over the world that these claims are being verified or denied. So, supposedly, since the last few months, Colca Canyon wins - at l...

Ahhh...just wrote a blog about Arequipa and lost it......ahhh - so all you get are photos and a little bit. Josie and I flew from Lima to Arequipa - were met by a guy holding a card with my name on it. Wow - this is easy.Beautiful city lodged between three massive volcanos. Loads of stunning white stone and intricate stone carvings. Great churches. Beautiful facades.Fantastic museum with 'Juanita" the girl mummy hwo was found recently after one of the vo...