This will be my last post from Peru for now. We are quickly running out of time and now only have 3 weeks left for Bolivia before Jacquie and I split ways with Preeti and start to make our way back to Quito (65 hours in the bus). After my last update, the three of us caught a night bus from Cusco to Puno and slept for a grand total of 3 and a half hours before arriving at 5 in the morning and heading to a hotel for another hour and a half of sleep. Then, a...

I'm now back in Cusco with Preeti and Jacquie, after having an awesome (although ridiculously expensive) time at Machu Picchu and in the SacredValley. Before I get into the details though, there's something FAR more exciting and FAR more important that I need to say. It's the type of thing that can change people's lives as it saturates media coverage and absorbs public interest. While we were in Ollantaytambo (one of the towns in the SacredValley) we were tol...

I'd like to start this next post by sending out a congratulations to the little sister. Rumour over the net (unfortunately I wasn't able to be there myself) is that she had her last provincial exam yesterday and will have her grad ceremony on the 28th, which means she'll be completely done with high school. Congrats Teres! Well, I'm sure by now most of you have realized that I haven't been able to write as much as I would have liked, but I guess that's just be...

Hey Everyone,So it's been almost a week since I did my last update and the time has just flown by. The day after my last update we spent the morning at a museum in Arequipa where they house a 500 year old girl who was sacrificed on top of one of the nearby mountains by the Incas.Apparently archeologists have found 14 child sacrifices throughout the Inca Empire with the majority of them found in Peru. According to their belief system, the Mountains were consid...

Hello from Arequipa,So after two 18 hour bus rides and a couple days in Lima, Jacquie and I are now in Arequipa with our third travel mate, Preeti. Preeti is a friend I met 2 years ago at PSYL, the summer leadership program that Pearson runs yearly and since the program we've kept in touch to the point where last summer she decided to come on trip.Right, so when I left off with the last update Jacquie and I had a few hours to kill before catching an 18 hour b...