At Lake Titicaca we went out to the Isla del Sol where the sun was apparently born. This is also where the Inca empire started so plenty more ruins to see here. We spent the night there before heading to La Paz, the capital. The bus journey to La Paz involves a crossing of Lake Titicaca by boat. It was pretty strange to see your bus sailing across the lake on a raft. This was all organised by the Bolivian navy who don't have a whole lot to do any more since ...

From Arequipa we headed on to the Colca Canyon. It is the second deepest canyon in the world, the deepest canyon is the one next to it. Why did we not go to that one? Now we have to settle for telling people that we once visited the second deepest canyon in the world. The canyon is famous for its condors, some of which grow up to three metres in length. We were pretty lucky and saw about four or five flying just above our heads. It was pretty strange that a...