This was just a brief visit on 8th January, born of necessity as we had a flight booked from Lima to Quito, Ecuador the next day where we meet our Galapagos Islands touring group. We heard Lima wasn't the nicest place but in fairness what we saw was actually very nice indeed. Admittedly we didn't see much of the city, not even the town centre. We had a hostel booked in the Miraflores part of town which was very plush area which even had a beach which was cha...

We left Cusco at 7am, the morning after finishing the Inca trail. We wanted to fit another place in our brief time in Peru and plumped for it's 2nd largest city, Arequipa. We managed to get a flight from there to Lima for a mere $64 each which rather helped our decision. However, this still meant a lovely 10 hour bus journey from Cusco. It passed through some fine mountain scenery to get there but the journey was rather characterised by screaming children, an inc...

With Jo hopefully over her tummy troubles, we were booked in for the 4 day Inca trail on 2nd January. We were looking forward to it but were a little concerned with the weather as we were in rainy season plus we'd heard a few tales that conditions could get pretty miserable in the current climate. We met our travelling group of 14 at a briefing the night before and they were a pretty nice bunch, the majority being English. Ominously as we were driven to...

We arrived here on 28th December after not the most terribly comfortable bus journeys from Bolivia. We were promised a cama bus but that turned out to be bulls**t and it was a cramped horrible old bus instead. It also stopped briefly at probably the grimmest town we've yet seen called Juliaca in Peru. We pity anyone who lives there. However, Cusco is a different kettle of fish. The town centre (if not the outskirts) are beautiful and full of character. It's...