THURSDAY 16TH and FRIDAY 17TH OCTOBER OK, here's the last instalment from Peru, and it will be a bit shorter than the previous one, promise! JAMES So, another early start - 4.30am this time! By 5.30 we were on the bus from Aguas Calientes winding our way up the never ending mountain road up to Machu Picchu. Slightly less scary than the week's earlier bus journeys, except for when the empty tourist buses would come careering round the hairpin corners only to me...

Right, here we are, finally we are getting around to writing about Peru! A day by day, blow by blow account of the last 8 days is about to follow, so buckle up kids, it could be a long ride! SATURDAY 11TH OCTOBER KATIE Well, all the best intentions of meeting the group for a nice social dinner went out the window when I realised I had left my wallet in the internet cafe when doing the last update. We didn't realise for an hour or so, and by the time we sped of...

JAMES We are no longer in Cusco, but we still haven't got round to updating the blog properly since before the trek, so we are leaving the location as Cusco until we get round to that! There is so much to tell! It took us 3 hours tonight just to finally get all the photos loaded on! They won't do any justice to the stunning scenery, but will hopefully give you a flavour of the fantastic time we have had. Anyway, we arrived back in Florida last night, and Miami ...

KATIE Welcome to Cusco, a really beautiful and extremely uplifting place to be - quite literally, at 11,000ft altitude! Have tried the local coca tea and it´s actually very nice, it´s about time I got some more I think! Not doing too badly with the altitude at the moment, bit of a headache but not too bad so making sure we´re drinking lots of water and as I mentioned, having lots of things with coca in it! We have a really good group for the tour, met them al...

JAMES We have made it to Lima - the first time in the Southern Hemisphere for either of us! Having driven through some proper Florida rain on the way to Miami airport yesterday, and judging by the look of the sky as we were waiting to board, we wondered whether we were in for another bumpy ride. In fact though, it was a pretty good flight, the near horizontal position of the Peruvian lady in front notwithstanding! Got ripped off for a taxi to the hotel though -...