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...

I know it sounds crazy but I am actually now on vacation from my vacation! My friend Josie wanted to see Peru and, like nearly every one of my friends, is still working. She only had a limited time for a holiday. Peru is huge - long and skinny with so many highlights it is quickly becoming the destination of choice for adventure travelers, It has Machu Picchu, beaches, deserts, jungle, rain forest and mountains. Lots of mountains as the Andes that start way...

Henry and Jorge need your help. On my second day in Lima, while standing in the mall of an office building lobby and surveying the billboards of that evening's Cinema choices, I noticed a well-dressed guy standing beside me, also surveying the posters. What was unusual about this was it was only around 10 am and there was only the two of us taking the time to look at the posters – a little island of calm within the flurry of a very frantic business cr...