Very little sleep during the evening, with my gut turning over and over, and noises of dogs barking thought the evening. Temperature wise I was fine, the minus 10 degrees sleeping bag seems to be working nicely. You can however, add me to the list of those that have dropped like flies, it appears that I woke this morning with either a bad case altitude sickness or food poisoning. While I was considering turning around and heading back to Lares township as I didn'...

We departed Ollantaytambo this morning by van and took a 3:30 hour ride along a single lane windy road though the valleys to Lares town where the first day of our three day hike on the Lares Trek began. The Lares Trek is a scenic, less touristic route to hike through the Andes and its one day shorter than the Inca Trail which we wanted to do but couldn't get on, however the Lares Trek is higher in elevation so while it would have been nice to do the Inca Trail, w...

This morning for breakfast we had a kind of a porridge, when it came out it looked like another soup with potato in it, but after sipping it we realised it was like a liquid porridge (imagine oats in about 20 times the amount of water). We thought it was odd that there was a potato in it, until Bruno tried it and found it was Apple. We added some sugar which made it taste all the better. A second breakfast then came out, fresh bread rolls, honey and cheese, this ...

Turns out people don't seem to be that well this morning, not sure what it is, I feel fine and a few others are as well, but this morning Ida and Hannah were feeling crook and later this afternoon Bruno wasn't feeling that great either, and then Sammi was out of action this evening too, thus today's title. A few of us headed out this morning to take Bruno to the police station so he could report his missing phone (required for insurance purposes), after that we h...

Ok, well today's post has a few moments of the trip for the bus last night. We were meant to originally leave at 10pm, however due to the issue we had last time we took a 10 hour bus trip, our tour guide organised for us to catch the 8pm bus, he had the transfer (minibus) organised to pick us up at 7pm from the hotel, at 7pm still no minivan, he called them and it appeared there was some kind of emergency and they had to organise another driver for us and it woul...