We stayed in Cuzco for one more night and then we left on Saturday morning (10th Nov) and headed south towards Puno and Lake Titicaca. Our bus left at 8am and took 6 hours to wind throught the hills until we arrived in Puno. While we were on the bus a guy had approached us offering accomodation. There was a free transfer to the hostel and hot water (most places in Puno don´t supply hot water!) so we decided to go with him, as did all of the other Gringos on the ...

Day 2-The Inca Trail cont´d.... We stopped walking at lunch time on the second day, i don´t think i could have gone much further! After we had eaten we were told that it was probably a good idea to sleep as sleeping at this altitude was sometimes quite difficult. The rest of the afternoon was spent relaxing and we ate tea at around 6.30pm. After we had eaten tea, Bobby asked who had been at the back of the group in the morning on the way up. Neil and i...

The flight from Cuzco to Lima wasn´t too bad-the senery from the plane was fab. We could see the mountain ranges up in the clouds. We arrived in Cuzco quite early on Friday morning (2nd Nov). We asked the taxi driver to take us to a part of the town called San Blas, but, you guessed it...he said it was full! Instead he took us to a hostel that he owned, the rooms were pretty grim and had a funny air of cat wee so we said no and asked him to take us closer to...

Day 1-The Inca Trail It was an early start on Monday morning when Gilbert (Puma) picked us up from our hostel in Cuzco at 5.20am! The previous day we had hired a 50ltr bag and left our big backpacks in storage at the hostel, so armed with suncream, mossie repelant, very few clothes and our camera we set off. After we had picked up the other 11 people in our group from various hostels in Cuzco it was a 2 hours drive to the town of Ollyantaytambo where we stopped ...

There were tons of people waiting on the jetty when we got off the boat in Iquitos. People were sticking their heads in the windows asking if we wanted this hostel or that tour. There were even kids running onto the boat to help with the luggage wanting a tip. We grabbed our luggage and got away from the crowds to get a taxi. The mototaxis are really funny, like rickshaws, the taxi drivers were even fighting over us! When we got a taxi, suprise suprise the hostel...