So we woke up feeling rather worse for wear after a spontaneous night out with Jess. Such an amusing way to spend our last night in Puno and met up with lots of other groups also travelling with gap around Peru. I swear this girl knows everyone! Anyway we were up early to leave for the airport as the protests were in full swing. After several attempts at travelling along the main roads it was a no go so our journey along roads which seemed like we were in the out...

The floating islands where unbelievable, they are literally compacted reeds, on which they have reed houses, and even towers, not quite sure how that stayed upright, was very nervous climbing up. They have little rooms with one bed that the whole family share, although they did have solar panels and we were told they have tv, but no Internet yet :p they can move their islands around if they want but they usually stay put. And we saw the floating animals, there ar...

Just arrived in puno, was a long 7 or 8 hour bus ride lost count after the first few hours. Hotel is really nice although there are strikes about mining? I think in the main square just around the corner, it's quite peaceful at the moment though so should be alright. Going on a boat onto lake titicaca, pronounced titihaha. We've been saying it wrong for years! we are going to visit a family on one of the floating islands and stopping at one of the largest actual ...

This was the challenge. So we set off on our way to the inca trail. We had a private bus and a tour guide just for the two of us plus 6 other people ( 5 porters and a chef) who carried all of our stuff and the food which we would eat for the next few days. They would run past us in order to beat us to each lunch stop and campsite so that everything was all ready for us when we arrived. It was a very good service and all we had to do was walk and carry a backpack....

The night before we leave for the Inca trail, we´re only allowed 4kg each for the next 4 days and 3 nights, the sleeping bags we brought apparently arent good enough so we had to hire thiers. So weve been lugging them around for no reason, ah well we made need them at some point. We are leaving at 530 tomorrow morning, our tour guide has made it sound quite easy, a little bit too easy. We´re not convinced. Walking sticks will be waiting for us, lets hope we don...