Hola! Wow...the Inca Trail, what can we say? It's amazing, fantastic! We have just finished our four day trek and what a trek it has been!! There were only two people on the trek, that's right, just me and Lindsey. We also had one guide, a cook and a horse man with four horses accompanying us! Day 1 What day! Up at 4am.Picked up at 5am. (But was six in the end as they could not find our hostel) It was a three hour bus journey to the start of our walk. We fi...

Hi Everyone, Hope you are all Okay with all that snow your having! We are en route to Chile right now, but I wanted to tell you all about the Colca Canyon. We left early again, up at 6am, this is becoming routine for us now. We were picked up at our hotel and set off for the Colca Canyon. It is like the Grand Canyon but twice as deep with wild condors nesting there. Unfortunately we did not see any!! On our way there we stopped to see herds of llamas and a...

Hi Everyone. We have just finished a two day tour of lake Titicaca. After a 7 hour bus journey from Cusco to Puno our tour guide dropped us off at a nice hotel. Next day start was at 5am. We were picked up by our tour guide and taken to a boat that took us to a floating village made of reeds. It was very impressive. There were little houses and boats all made from the local reeds. We dressed up in the traditional clothing of the local people. Lindsey looked v...

Hi, We have now arrived safely in Peru. We had fun in Lima which was a real surprise as we were not looking forward to it. We were staying in a nice area called Mariflores - this helped. I was a bit nervous about going to Lima after reading lots of horror stories in our guide book. We were there for just two nights after a good flight with LAN airways. There was lots of leg space on the plane! We stayed in a hostel called Condor House. It was a very nice host...