Iquitos to Pucallpa Ferry All aboard the Eduardo IX Saturday 15 to Wednesday 19 June 2013 Day 1 saturday We speed in a Motorkar (tuc tuc) from the offices of Cumaceba to the Masusa dock. We have 10 minutes to spare before published departure time and I declare that these things never happen on time in Latin America anyway. When we get to there and pay the driver the 4 soles tariff I get a further insight into timings in these parts. Apparently our boat to Ya...

12 June 2013 Dear Mum and Dad After spending the last week at over 3000 metres sea level in the Peruvian Andes we have dropped like a stone to sea (or amazon) level. You would have thought that following all that altitude training we would feel strong as oxes. However the reverse seems true. Here in iquitos there is almost 100% humidity. As well as feeling drenched and dehydrated at the same time, we feel exhausted and tired of fighting off greedy and duplicito...

The Inca trail to Machu Picchu I wake up shivering from the cold. I can hear the rain has gotten heavier but the tent seems to be holding out. My back hurts from sleeping on the rock hard ground. I'm too cold to pull my wrist out of the sleeping bag to check the time, but this is about the tenth time my body has woken me up tonight so I reckon it's going to start getting light soon. And then we'll spend all day on our feet carrying a heavy load across 14km of m...

Cusco - Your next holiday destination We spent 4 days in Cusco acclimatising before our big trek, to avoid altitude sickness. What an awesome place to kill the time. I think everyone should visit this part of the world. Reasons to make Cusco your next holiday destination: - The original stone work in the historical town centre, built 600 years ago by the Incas is not only still standing, the buildings are functional too. The famous '12 angled stone' is just one...

The Cuy, The Witch and some war robes. Trujillo, on the face of it, is a hellhole. Dusty - in diving terms the 'vis' is not what it should be. The area seems permanently shrouded in a mixture of coastal mist and the brown dust of this desert area. Noisy - car horns seem to be the worst offenders. I have never been to a place where people use their car horns more frequently than the clutch. Taxis constantly hoot, whether to obtain business, or a celebration th...