Have just got back from the Amazon and it was absolutely brilliant!!!!!! Left Puno on Friday morning I think. The miniature market was hilarious and so tacky. It was filled with stools of scary looking objects with tiny dollar bills, babies, armadillos! and other creatures stuck to it. Then a lady blesses it by pouring gross smelling liquid on it and wrapping it in a fake 100 dollar bill! I got a pack with everything in it so fingers crossed! On one stool there w...

Have just got back from the Amazon and it was absolutely brilliant!!!!!! Left Puno on Friday morning I think. The miniature market was hilarious and so tacky. It was filled with stools of scary looking objects with tiny dollar bills, babies, armadillos! and other creatures stuck to it. Then a lady blesses it by pouring gross smelling liquid on it and wrapping it in a fake 100 dollar bill! I got a pack with everything in it so fingers crossed! On one stool there w...

Well I am back in Puno again after spending a night on Amantani Island. Left Puno yesterday morning and boarded a boat on Lake Titicaca which took us to Taquile Island where we hiked up the mountain (not sure how I will cope with the Inca Trail!) and visited the main plaza. The Peruvian men and women have really cool outfits and the men wear a different type of hat depending on whether they are single or not - which should definitely be implemented back in Englan...

Well I am officially on the last leg of my trip and it is going to be brilliant but exhausting! Met the rest of my tour group last night who are all really nice - there is a Canadian couple on an 8 month honeymoon (definitely the way forward, all I need is a groom!!!), a South African guy (not another one!) a lovely Danish girl who I am sharing a room with, and our Peruvian guide Roberto. It is actually a really nice small group. Left La Paz at 8 this morning and...