Another lovely day in Cuzco. The weather has been so spectacular here each day, we've been so lucky. It looked like t-storms in the forecast all week but it has been surprisingly sunny and quite warm! After a leisurely breakfast, we headed out to meet up with Burrill and Courtney in Plaza des Armas. We went with them to visit our tour agent friend; we finally and officially booked our trip to Machu Picchu. We head to Aguas Calientes on Friday, and up to MP on...

After one last great breakfast at La Piccola Locanda this morning, we loaded up our packs and headed out to our new hostel - a whole 20 steps away! We are staying tonight at Hostal Resbalosa, where Burrill and Courtney have been stationed all week, to save some money. It's great to be in the same wonderful neighbourhood and we even have our own bathroom here! Once we were all settled in, we headed out into the city, with about an hour to go before meeting up f...

The day started with a tiny beam of light, sneaking into our room. When we decided to acknowledge the day, we realized it was only 8am although it felt like Noon. We're in the same time zone here as at home, but because Peru doesn't observe daylight savings time, we're an hour different - so the sun sets around 6pm and rises at some terribly early hour that I'd prefer not to be aware. The hostal that we are staying at is called La Piccola Locanda. It is a gre...

After another somewhat terrifying taxi ride back to the airport this morning, we hopped on our Taca flight bound for Cuzco. At just over an hour, that is the kind of flight I can enjoy! We did have some crazy turbulence on our descent into Cuzco, and the landing was nuts - we made a pretty sharp turn around some mountains to find the runway. But the landing itself was very smooth! We hopped in a taxi to take us to the main part of the city (Plaza des Armas). ...

Well, we had quite the journey getting to Peru all the way from London! As Mark put it, immediate panic set in upon boarding our 12 hour flight from Madrid to Lima and realizing that we didn't have our own personal TV screen to entertain us for all that time. (Apparently we were spoiled by our trip to Seoul last year!) But, it did help that we had less than 4 hours sleep the night before so we survived just fine! The coolest part of the flight was a birds-eye...