26 de Noviembre This morning we had a 3 hour bus ride to Puerto Varas, where we found a hotel. Puerto Varas is a town by the side of a lake. Looking on to the lake, you get a beautiful view of 3 volcanoes. Our hotel was like a 3 story wooden maze - so it took a while to find our room. We spent the rest of the day walking around town and eating ice-cream with Grandma and Grandpa until we had dinner with them and then said goodbye, as they were heading somewhere e...

7 de Noviembre In the morning, the man that owned the campsite filled half of it with water! He said we were allowed to play in the water so we did, and got very muddy. After we had had a shower to get rid of the mud, we had lunch then went into town. When we came back we played in the mud again, had another shower, went to have dinner, then got on a night bus that had Iron Man 3 on telly. So Jack was happy. As the film was finishing, we went to sleep. 8th No...

26 de Octubre Potosi, claiming to be the highest city in the world, was once very rich. Cerro Rico, the mountain sitting beside it, was once full of silver mines (actually there are still workers today but mainly mining just for tin). Sadly most of the miners were African slaves and indigenous people from all over South America. All mines are dangerous, and this one was no different: in fact this one was particularly bad. Of every 10 workers that came to the min...

19 de Octubre Today we had a long bus journey to Puno. Puno is the town next to Lake Titicaca. At Puno bus station we got a taxi to take us to a hostal, then wandered around Puno. Lake Titicaca Facts: Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable (by big ships) lake in the world at 3812m; By volume of water it is the largest lake in the whole of South America; In the deepest part the of lake it is 281 metres deep; The shore length is 699 miles long; There are more than...

6 de Octubre We woke up, on the bus, and had something to eat. When the bus stopped, we got off and got onto another bus. And when that had finished we had lunch and got on a third and final bus to........ Nazca, wich is famous for the Nazca lines! In Nazca we found a hostal, and visited a friend of Dad's called Victoria that he met when he last came to Peru, then ate some Chifa (the Peruvian name for chinese food), and went to bed. 7 de Octubre Whilst we were h...